"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.

Dresden, one of the world`s most beautiful ... city as an administrative headquarters if they were driven out of Berlin. It was bombed because of its war industry. It was bombed to bring about ...

Although a patriot, and by no means a pacifist, 70 years after the event he still believes that those who ordered the three-day bombing of Dresden could ... crying to be let out.

But those days are over. For many years now, a multifaceted program has been used to commemorate both the bombing of Dresden and point out the Nazi past: There are regular exhibitions, readings ...

"That's good bombing," RAF Wing Commander Maurice Smith was reported to have said as he wheeled the 244 Lancaster bombers under his control away from Dresden. The first reports out of Sweden spoke ...

The first bombings were carried out in two waves ... "The other events try to relativize this devastating bombing of Dresden, and put it into the context of what happened around the world ...

A British survivor of the Dresden bombing has said there is 'no excuse' for the terrifying air raid that killed thousands 75 years ago and revealed the devastating impact it had on him.

But in 1945, the plan was modified to carry out bombing raids on many cities in eastern Germany, including Dresden. “The aim was to hinder the reinforcement of German troops from the Western ...

Close to 800 RAF aircraft - led by pathfinders, who dropped flares marking out the bombing area centred on the Ostragehege sports stadium - flew to Dresden that night. In the space of just 25 ...

The attack on Dresden began on 13 February 1945. Close to 800 RAF aircraft - led by pathfinders, who dropped flares marking out the bombing area centred on the Ostragehege sports stadium - flew to ...