Typical German building

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I made the trip over to meet the University President (here called a Rector) and saw this building on the way back.  This is a very typical pre-war German building.  Some have been nicely reconditioned and are displayed in bright colors, like this one, others are much in need of TLC (“tender-loving-care” for my Polish readers).  One, just a block from my office, still had during my last visit, many bullets holes from the house-to-house combat that went through here with the Russians in 1945.  (That building has just been reconditioned, so I will have to look elsewhere for a picture of that effect.)