Dresden mayor 'to lobby against building of Bomber Command memorial’
The mayor of the German city of Dresden has flown into London under pressure from fellow politicians to try to get a planned memorial to Second World War bomber crews scrapped.
Helma Orosz, 57, is officially in Britain to open an exhibition on the bombing of London, her city and that of its twin, Coventry, during the war.
She is under pressure however to get the memorial, which is to recognise the courage of RAF bomber crews, scrapped.
Planners at Westminster City Council approved in May the proposed £3.5 million memorial for the 55,573 bombers who were killed in the Second World War. Daily Telegraph readers helped raise more than £1.8 million towards the cost of the monument, which will be built in Green Park, central London....
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Helma Orosz, 57, is officially in Britain to open an exhibition on the bombing of London, her city and that of its twin, Coventry, during the war.
She is under pressure however to get the memorial, which is to recognise the courage of RAF bomber crews, scrapped.
Planners at Westminster City Council approved in May the proposed £3.5 million memorial for the 55,573 bombers who were killed in the Second World War. Daily Telegraph readers helped raise more than £1.8 million towards the cost of the monument, which will be built in Green Park, central London....