Five Days In Freiburg

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A video journal of a road trip we made from Brittany (France) to Freiburg (Germany), and back, in February 2013. The trip included a visit into the Black Forest. Technicals: Shot on Panasonic FZ-150 at 720p (mp4) and mainly set on iA throughout, plus still shots at 10mb. Edited in Sony Vegas 11 and output at 720p (mp4). © 2013 LiveArtPresents. Music acknowledgements and copyrights: Daniella Ganeva, King Rollo, Jeffrey Madison.
About Freiburg.
The town was bombed during the night of 27 November 1944 and much of the town centre was demolished, killing 3,000 people with another 10,000 injured. This report from RAF bomber command website:
"341 Lancasters and 10 Mosquitos of Nos 1 and 8 Groups despatched to Freiburg. 1 Lancaster lost. Freiburg was not an industrial town and had not been bombed before by the RAF It was attacked on this night because it was a minor railway centre and because many German troops were believed to be present in the town; American and French units were advancing in the Vosges, only 35 miles to the west. The marking of the medium-sized town was based on Oboe directed from caravans situated in France. Flak defences were light and 1,900 tons of bombs were dropped on Freiburg in 25 minutes. Photographs showed that the railway targets were not hit but that the main town area was severely damaged."
But the town had been bombed before in 1940: In May 1940, aircraft of the Luftwaffe mistakenly dropped approximately 60 bombs on Freiburg near the train station, killing fifty-seven people.
The bombs that fell on Freiburg on 10 May, [Hoch] discovered, came from German military planes on a mission to Dijon, France. The pilots apparently lost their bearings in very cloudy skies, and, anxious to carry out their orders, mistakenly attacked Freiburg. Rather than admit error, the Germans falsified reports and threw the blame on the Allies.
Further info at: en.wikipedia.or...