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.

City of dust: visitors to an exhibition in Dresden study a 360-degree panorama of the city after the Allied raids in February 1945 (AFP) On 13 February 1945, Victor Gregg was a 25-year-old British ...

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, lectures, theater ...

"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 ...

23 The skyline of Dresden photographed in 2019, with the rebuilt Church of Our Lady (right). Seventy-five years after the city's destruction, the bombing remains a highly contentious page in the ...

Ursula Kretschmer remembers crouching in the cellar of her home on the night of Feb. 13, 1945, as waves of British bombers flew overhead, producing such a demonic roar that ”I thought my eard… ...

02/13/2020 February 13, 2020. President Frank-Walter Steinmeier did his best to balance German aggression and victimhood at the 75th anniversary of the Dresden bombing, one of the most politically ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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