The Bombing of Dresden, German Federal State of Saxony

***Heimdallr*** · #1 (**permalink**) Saturday, January 20th, 2007

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The bombing of Dresden, the capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony, by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) between 13 February and 15 February 1945, easily remains one of the more controversial events of World War II...

"Dresden has a long history as capital and Royal residence for the Kings of Saxony with centuries of extraordinary cultural and artistic splendor. The destruction of Dresden has an epically tragic quality to it. It was a wonderfully beautiful city and a symbol of baroque humanism and all that was best in Germany... In that sense it is an absolutely exemplary tragedy for the horrors of 20th Century warfare." [credit: Wikipedia]

Dresden (Saxony, Germany) - Old Town and Augustusbrücke, seen from the Ministry of War

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