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 … ...

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 ...

Why was Dresden targeted in one of the most destructive bombings of WWII? ... but it came at a devastating human cost. Was it military strategy, or a war crime that should never have happened?

This beautiful and historic city was practically reduced to rubble after World War II, here's how it bounced back and became ...

When the Allies bombed Dresden, Germany, during World War II, much of the city was left in ruins. The Church of Our Lady -- a grand baroque building -- fell after burning. Now, 60 years later, the ...

A harrowing piece of anti-war art by a Syrian that was erected in the heart of Dresden this week has sparked an emotional debate in the city that was controversially destroyed by Allied bombs near ...

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.

The Propaganda Ministry claimed Dresden had no war industry and was only a city of culture. Though local officials said about 25,000 people had died - a figure historians agree with now - the ...

A firestorm caused by Allied bombers destroyed the historic centre of Dresden in February 1945.

A firestorm caused by Allied bombers destroyed the historic centre of Dresden in February 1945.