The British veteran, who died in 2021, wrote that he considered the Dresden bombing a war crime, and many historians have seen the attack as a senseless killing of civilians in the final stretch ...

Dresden in ruins after the Second World War bombing (Prisma by Dukas Presseagentur GmbH/Alamy/PA) The devastating two-day attack by RAF Bomber Command began on February 13 1945 and saw 4,000 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Dresden: Images of Dresden’s skeletal, burnt-out buildings have long been synonymous with the ravages of the Second World War.

Feb. 13 marks the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the allied bombing of the eastern German city of Dresden. In a series of aerial bombardments lasting until Feb. 15, 1945, the Allies dropped ...

Dresden’s population in 1945 was estimated at approximately 630,000, including some 100,000 refugees. Intense bombing on Feb. 13 and 14 of 1945 killed tens of thousands and possibly up to ...

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“I still suffer at times the memories of those terrible events,” Gregg wrote. The British veteran, who died in 2021, wrote that he considered the Dresden bombing a war crime, and many historians have ...

The Duke of Kent has described “the grief we feel in our hearts” at the “terrible destruction and loss of life” in the Allied bombing of Dresden as he marked the 80th anniversary of the ...