The war in Europe appeared far from over when the Dresden raid was mounted; and the number of its victims, while considerable, has been grossly exaggerated by the Nazi apologist David Irving.

The Allied destruction of Dresden wasn’t the biggest or deadliest aerial bombardment of a German city during World War II. But it is by far the most infamous, largely due to Kurt Vonnegut’s ...

Dresden has recovered since the war, although it still bears the scars. A 1953 US report on the bombing concluded that the attack destroyed or severely damaged 23% of the city's industrial ...

On Feb. 14, 1945, 311 U.S. B-17 Flying Fortresses finished off an already-burning Dresden with 771 tons of bombs, fulfilling a request by the Soviet Union to ”neutralize” the city as a … ...

Of 13 February 1945, Allied forces in World War II (WWII) began a three-day bombing raid on Dresden killing as many as 25,000 people and triggering firestorms that swept through the city centre.

On Feb. 13, 14, and 15, 1945, more than 1,200 British and U.S. heavy bombers dropped nearly 4,000 tons of high-explosive and incendiary bombs on the city, killing an estimated 25,000 people.

In debunking the Nazi “Dresden defense” (“Hamas’s Second-Stage Strategy,” Main Street, Oct. 31), William McGurn needn’t even come close to justifying the firebombing of Dresden.

More than 25,000 people died during the Allied firebombing of the city of Dresden, Germany, from February 13 to 15, 1945. Eighty years later, thousands of people have linked hands to form a human ...

With traditional markets groaning with festive food and crafts, the beautiful German city of Dresden has been going all-out for Christmas since the 15th century and is now a hive of holiday cheer.