Who's Baad?

I was going to mention how the recently rebuilt Frauenkirche of Dresden will be consecrated on the 30th of October...how the ruin was preserved as a monument...how they studied, measured and catalogued every speck of it so that the new version could be 44% original (this was tricky as they were only sure of the design of approximately two-thirds of the 18th century baroque--does it undulate? If yes, then it's baroque--edifice...not to mention the fact that the church did not collapse until after the bombing, and this due to the extreme heat of the firestorm that swept through the city--therefore the structural integrity of the disassembled pieces was a tad iffy).


...how they found the original cross that topped the church (Kuppelkreuz, cupola cross) in the rubble when, after reunification, plans could finally be made to rebuild (because one-party states are only good for serious maltreatment of human beings, outrageous egotism on the part of a handful of total morons, and um...let's see, what else? Oh yeah, nothing at all getting done--unless you count the proliferation of rampant corruption). Hey, what about a monument to no longer belonging to some head-up-the-ass, misguided excuse for a country--woohoo, now there's something to celebrate.


...how the original cross was so badly damaged that they had to have a new one made anyway, and how the guy that made it was British and his father was one of the bomber pilots who destroyed Dresden in February of 1945.


...but then we watched our--German version of Netflix--DVD rental (which frankly, we'd been dragging our feet on), about the Baader Meinhof Gang--you know, the Red Army Faction


...which was way more admired here than you might think, until it became quite clear that they were indeed quite interested in killing people. Anyway, it was enlightening (what with them going to a terrorist training camp in Jordan around 1970 and all), but you can't get it from Amazon.com (where a search for Baader only brings up 'Badder Santa' with Billy Bob Thornton).