I don't know. I was a small kid and just remember seeing the bullet pock marks my dad pointed out. I don't remember ever seeing any bombed-out buildings, although they might have existed. However, we did take a train to Berlin, probably in '62, and seeing East Berlin was startling to a kid. It was still devastated, looking very apocalyptic.

The Berlin wall had just been built when we visited, and I remember seeing curtains still fluttering through the hastily bricked up windows in the buildings that made up part of the wall. Someone (my dad?) also told us about the people who'd died trying to cross the wall. At the time, it seemed like ancient history to a kid, when it really had all happened only months before.