Tens of thousands gathered in Dresden's old town to pay tribute to the victims of Allied air raids in 1945. The commemoration has taken place every year since 2010 and often attracts right-wing ...

In February 1945, bombing raids during World War Two hit Dresden, Germany, killing 25,000 people. Now, 70 years later, an artist's panorama depicts the destroyed city as it looked in the aftermath. On ...

Most Americans — at least, the ones who aren’t addicted to the History Channel — know about the bombing of Dresden in 1945 from Kurt Vonnegut’s bestselling novel “Slaughterhouse-Five,” based on ...

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 anti-war ...

At the end of World War II, Allied forces destroyed the baroque German city on the Elbe. Debate continues about whether the raids were morally or militarily justified. But 80 years on Dresdeners are ...

The half-ruined altarpiece of Dresden’s Three Kings church, with its gaping cracks and missing pieces, is a mesmerising memorial to the city’s darkest hour: February 13th, 1945. Exactly 80 years ago, ...

A provocative Dresden art installation has ramped up tensions ahead of anniversary of the British bombing of 1945 that claimed at least 25,000 lives and flattened the Baroque Saxon capital. Monument, ...

On February 13, 1945, two days of air raids on the German city of Dresden began with 796 British bombers dropping blockbuster bombs and incendiaries, setting off a firestorm that left the city gutted ...

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"The firestorm is incredible... Insane fear grips me and from then on I repeat one simple sentence to myself continuously: 'I don't want to burn to death'. I do not know how many people I fell over. I ...

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