During three harrowing days -- Feb. 13 to 15, 1945 -- more than 1,200 American and British planes firebombed Dresden. More than 1,600 acres of the historic, architecturally significant city center ...
DRESDEN, Germany - When the air raid sirens sounded in Dresden on Feb. 13, 1945, Rudi Warnatsch's family went wearily to the basement, hoping it was just another false alarm. After all, their ...
Around 18,000 people must evacuate an area of central Dresden by 9 am (0800 GMT) on Wednesday after a World War II bomb was ...
Ursula Kretschmer remembers crouching in the cellar of her home on the night of Feb. 13, 1945, as waves of British bombers flew overhead, producing such a demonic roar that ”I thought my eardrums were ...
Terror falling from the skies in WWII / From the blitz of London to the over-the-top ruin of Dresden
Are some evils so unmitigated that any measure is justified to defeat them? The ferocious Anglo-American attack on the German city of Dresden in February 1945 forced some in the Allied camp to wonder.
In the otherwise innocuous editorial “V-E Day at 50″(May 8), one sentence disturbed me greatly: “To compare asphyxiation in the Dresden firestorm to death in the gas chamber is to confuse aggressor ...
DRESDEN: Tuesday, February 13, 1945. By Frederick Taylor. HarperCollins, 528 pp. $26.95. IT was known as "the Florence of the Elbe." For more than 200 years artists and lovers of culture had been ...
80 years ago, on a beautiful February night, Allied bombers transformed Dresden into fiery ruins, killing some 25,000 people, levelling a jewel of European Baroque and a cradle of so much beautiful ...
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