SLAUGHTER HOUSE - FIVE research #1

During WWII, Dresden a city which seemed to be harmless was bombed by the Allies, near the end of the war as the Red Army was advancing towards Berlin. This bombing remains to be very controversial, Dreseden was a town of factories and Museums

-Between February 13th and February 14th 1945, between 35,000 and 135,000 people were killed by Allied bombing in Dresden. Historians still argue over the number of deaths. However, there were so many refugees in the city at the time that the real figure will almost certainly never be known.

-In all, over three waves of attacks, 3,300 tons of bombs were dropped on the city. Many of the bombs that were dropped were incendiary bombs

After the raid had finished, SS guards brought in from a nearby camp, burnt the bodies in the city's Old Square (the Altmarkt). There were so many bodies that this took two weeks to complete.

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/bombing_of_dresden.htm