Ffm photos 1958 C.E. Read - Photo #1 - Generals Quarters

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The back of Col. Read's large pink stucco house.

Many years later, in 2017 when these houses (as well as the Amassador Arms hotel and the Teen Club) were being demolished to make way for a new Goethe University building, a 4000-pound unexploded bomb from WWII — a "blockbuster" capable of flattening entire city blocks — was discovered under Wismarer Straße, the little street that ran between the generals' houses to the Ambassador Arms and connected to Siolistraße at each end, one of them at the Teen Club, all of which were built some time between 1954 and 1956 according to aerial photos taken in the 1950s. If the bomb had detonated after these structures were built and occupied, it would have destroyed them all, and everybody in them.