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 ...

A visitor sits behind candles in the Frauenkirche cathedral (Church of Our Lady) in Dresden, Germany, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020 two days before the 75th anniversary of the Allied bombing of Dresden ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sixty years ago, on the evening of February 13, 1945, 234 British bombers set off for the German city of Dresden. They were followed a few hours later by an additional 538 and the next day by a wave ...

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 ...

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 ...

Taking into account the latest historical evidence this documentary attempts to shed new light on the bombing of Dresden one of the most controversial raids of World ...