It was about nine p.m. on February 13, 1945; eight hundred and five British planes dropped twenty six hundred tons of bombs on Dresden. Soon the city was an inferno. The next morning six hundred American planes bombed the city again, and again on the fifteenth of February. Dresden burned for seven days. Only eight Allied planes were shot down. No one knows how many people died, but estimates the death toll at between twenty-five and …showed first 75 words of 722 total…

…showed last 75 words of 722 total…opener to Russia to show them that we were the supreme power in the world. The military argument was to exterminate all possible military equipment in Dresden. By the end of the bombing the cultural center of the city was totally destroyed. Meanwhile, the only possible military or economic targets, the barracks in the city's north and the train station where trains carrying reserves for the Eastern Front might depart were left untouched. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**