DRESDEN, Germany — On the apocalyptic night when the British bombers came by the hundreds, Ingeborg Hommelsheim crawled from the cellar of her family’s burning home to find the Dresden sky a red dome ...

DRESDEN, Germany - When the air raid sirens sounded in Dresden on Feb. 13, 1945, Rudi Warnatsch's family went wearily to the basement, hoping it was just another false alarm. After all, their ...

During three harrowing days -- Feb. 13 to 15, 1945 -- more than 1,200 American and British planes firebombed Dresden. More than 1,600 acres of the historic, architecturally significant city center ...

BERLIN – Germans on Thursday marked 75 years since Allied bombs destroyed the eastern city of Dresden, with national leaders emphasizing atonement and the universal mourning of the war’s victims even ...

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 eardrums were ...

DRESDEN, Germany — When the air raid sirens sounded in Dresden on Feb. 13, 1945, Rudi Warnatsch’s family went wearily to the basement, hoping it was just another false alarm. After all, their ...

Are some evils so unmitigated that any measure is justified to defeat them? The ferocious Anglo-American attack on the German city of Dresden in February 1945 forced some in the Allied camp to wonder.

Feb. 13 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1668, Portugal was recognized as an independent nation by Spain. In 1861, the first Medal of Honor was awarded. It went to Col. Bernard Irwin, an assistant ...

On February 13 and 14, 1945, three waves of British and U.S. aircraft rained thousands of tons of incendiary bombs on the largely undefended German city of Dresden. Dresden was engulfed in a vast sea ...

In the otherwise innocuous editorial “V-E Day at 50″(May 8), one sentence disturbed me greatly: “To compare asphyxiation in the Dresden firestorm to death in the gas chamber is to confuse aggressor ...