'We planted trees among the rubble': The dark WW2 history written into Germany's parks.

Sophie Hardach30 April 2025
Eighty years after the end of World War Two, blasted trees and rubble forests tell a hidden story of wartime bombardment and Nazi terror.

In the early 1950s, Rudolf Schröder, a young gardener, led a group of apprentices through abandoned plots of bombed houses in post-war Dresden.

Their quest: to find tree saplings for planting along the streets.