Dresden bombing
Controversial wartime destruction
The Dresden bombing refers to the Allied aerial bombardment of Dresden, Germany, in February 1945, which killed tens of thousands of civilians and destroyed much of the historic city center.
The attack became a lasting symbol of controversial wartime bombing of civilian targets: The ethics of the Dresden bombing are still debated.
The phrase sometimes appears in arguments about proportionality in warfare.
- firebombingAssault using flame weapons
- World War IISecond global military conflict
- GermanyCentral European nation
- 1945Final year of WWII
- AlliesWWII's victorious coalition
RAF · incendiary · destruction · city center · civilians · Kurt Vonnegut · Slaughterhouse-Five · inferno · ashes · rubble · cultural heritage · refugees · February · night raid · firestorm · controversy · death toll · mass graves
- WWIID-Day, Pearl Harbor, Normandy, Hiroshima, Holocaust
- German HistoryNazi, Prussia, Saxony, Reichstag, Napoleonic Wars
- RAFRAF, Spitfire, Hurricane, Lancaster, Battle of Britain
- TragediesHamlet, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet
- WWII 1945V-E Day, V-J Day, VE Day, VJ Day, Hiroshima
- atrocitiesHolocaust, genocide, massacre, massacres, ethnic cleansing
Dresden bombingcultural preservation
Protecting community traditions and artifacts
Dresden bombingBerlin Airlift
Allied supply mission, 1948
Kindertransport · Dunkirk evacuation · humanitarian corridor · civilian evacuation · protected zone
Dresden, bombing, bomb, bombs, bombed, bomber, bombers, bombard, bombardment