Most Americans — at least, the ones who aren’t addicted to the History Channel — know about the bombing of Dresden in 1945 from Kurt Vonnegut’s bestselling novel “Slaughterhouse-Five,” based on ...

The Allied destruction of Dresden wasn’t the biggest or deadliest aerial bombardment of a German city during World War II. But it is by far the most infamous, largely due to Kurt Vonnegut’s anti-war ...

The air raids remain among the most controversial endeavors of the final European months of World War II. Rather than target military complexes, the bombings focused on architectural jewels -- an act ...

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 ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Between the 13th and 15th of February 1945, bombers from the United States ...

2007-03-17T12:00:50-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/17a/196223-m.jpgJorg Friedrich talked about his book, The Fire: The Bombing of Germany, 1940-1945, published ...

At least 35,000 people were killed in the firebombing of Dresden in February 1945. Once upon a time, Dresden was one of Europe's most beautiful cities, a Baroque jewel of garden terraces, stone ...

Numerous events are due to be held in Dresden on Tuesday to commemorate the destruction of the eastern German city in World War II 79 years ago. With the traditional human chain through the historic ...

DRESDEN: Tuesday, February 13, 1945. By Frederick Taylor. HarperCollins, 528 pp. $26.95. IT was known as "the Florence of the Elbe." For more than 200 years artists and lovers of culture had been ...

Intriguing Dresden, Germany, winds up on far fewer American itineraries than it deserves to. Don’t make that mistake. Since its horrific firebombing in World War II, the city has transitioned to a ...

‘am hellen Tage . . . in den Sträuchern herumliegen und Unfug treiben’. ‘Hauptabteilung III, Vermerk - Rücksprache mit der Hauptabteilung Justiz, Hauptreferent Müller, in Dresden, über die Frage des ...