70 years ago 13/2/1945 Dresden Germany was fire bombed and razed to the ground
"The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." 1942 Marshal of The Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Harris
Out of the ashes: Seventy years after the Allies dropped 3,900 tonnes of explosives on Dresden, then-and-now pictures reveal how the city recovered from near-obliteration
- Allied Forces dropped 3,900 tonnes of explosives over Dresden during four raids on 13th-15th February 1945
- The bombings on the east German city destroyed 1,600 acres of its centre, killing an estimated 25,000 people
- The resulting firestorm that engulfed the city centre is said to have reached temperatures of over 1,500C
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