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May 8, 2024 · It is thought that some 25,000–35,000 civilians died in Dresden in the air attacks, though some estimates are as high as 250,000, given the influx of undocumented refugees that had fled to Dresden from the Eastern Front.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The bombing of Dresden was a joint British and American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, during World War II. In four raids between 13 and 15 February 1945, 772 heavy bombers of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and 527 of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped more than 3,900 tons of ...
Apr 4, 2024 · How many people died in the bombing of Dresden? Around 30,000 civilians died in the bombing of Dresden by the RAF and USAAF in February/March 1945. Some historians consider a much higher figure, but the presence of a large number of refugees in the city makes it difficult to reach an accurate death toll.
- Mark Cartwright
- Dresden Bombing: A Barrage of Explosives and Incendiaries
- Controversy in Counting The Dead
- Dresden Was Known as The 'german Florence' on The Elbe
In the time that Vonnegut and others hid underground, the British Bomber Command’s Blind Illuminatoraircraft had rained explosives and incendiaries over the city. Then, “visual marker” aircraft swooped low to drop thousands of flares and fire-target markers. The main attack formation followed: over 500 heavy “Lancaster” bombers loaded with explosiv...
Initial—and partisan—estimates of the number of dead seemed to suggest that the Dresden Bombing was uniquely cruel. David Irving would claim in his 1963 book, The Destruction of Dresden, that the bombing was “the biggest single massacre in European history.” His estimate of 150,000 to 200,000 dead was long accepted without dispute. But his assertio...
Observers noted early on that the bombing of Dresden not only meant the death of civilians but the destruction of a center of European culture and Baroque splendor. Since the rule of August the Strong (1670-1733), the “German Florence” on the Elbe, was home to famous collections of art, porcelain, prints, scientific instruments and jewelry. Many Ge...
Though local officials said about 25,000 people had died - a figure historians agree with now - the Nazis claimed 200,000 civilians were killed. ... The debate about the Allied bombing campaign ...
Nov 9, 2009 · From February 13 to February 15, 1945, during the final months of World War II (1939-45), Allied forces bombed the historic city of Dresden, located in eastern Germany. The bombing was ...
Nov 5, 2009 · Recovering of bodies in the central city after the bombing of Dresden. The city of Dresden issued a revised estimate of the number of people killed during the Dresden bombings, placing the number ...
