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		The Dresden attack was to have begun with a USAAF Eighth Air Force bombing raid on February 13, 1945.
		Dresden was the seventh largest German city and by far the largest unbombed built-up area left and thus was contributing to the defense of Germany itself.
		The Dresden bombings achieved the strategic objectives that underlay the attack and were of mutual importance to the Allies and the Russians.
	feedbus.com /wikis/wikipedia.php?title=Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II (8439 words)

	Dresden - MSN Encarta
		Dresden Technical University (1828), Carl Gustav Carus Medical Academy of Dresden (1954), Friedrich List University of Transportation of Dresden (1952), and a school of music (1856) are in the city.
		Also rebuilt since World War II are the Dresden State Opera House (1878), once associated with the German composers Richard Wagner, Carl Maria von Weber, and Richard Strauss, and several fine churches, such as the rococo Hofkirche (1739-1751) and the Kreuzkirche (in part dating from the 15th century).
		The city was partly rebuilt after suffering heavy damage during the Seven Years' War (1756-1763) and subsequently became known as the Florence on the Elbe because of its magnificent baroque and rococo architecture and its fine museums.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761552600/Dresden.html (610 words)

	Bambooweb: Bombing of Dresden in World War II
		Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, was fire-bombed by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) over three days (February 13-15, 1945) near the end of World War II.
		This directive led to the raid on Dresden and marked the erosion of one last moral restriction in the bombing war: the term "evacuation from the east" did not refer to retreating troops but to the civilian refugees fleeing from the advancing Soviet troops.
		The Dresden bombing is a strongly debated decision, and the action is still widely perceived as lacking military justification, even within the context of the controversial area-bombing policy pursued against Germany by Britain's Bomber Command in 1942-1945.
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/b/o/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II.html (1200 words)

	Bombing of Dresden in World War II (1945) - Area bombing caused great casualties amongst the civil population
		Both the view that Dresden's bombing was a war crime, and the view that there should have been prosecutions for it, even if it did not rise to that level, are strongly disputed.
		The bombing of Dresden, while it was one of the more devastating conventional attacks of the war, was part of a policy of leveling cities and breaking the civilian ability to resist.
		Dresden rapidly became a potent symbol of the effects of area bombing, and the ability of military technology to inflict death and devastation beyond that which had been possible even a short time before.
	www.germannotes.com /hist_ww2_dresden.shtml (1810 words)

	Bombing of Dresden
		Dresden had by this time become the main centre of communications for the defence of Germany on the southern half of the Eastern front and it was considered that a heavy air attack would disorganise these communications and also make Dresden useless as a controlling centre for the defence.
		Dresden was a center of cultural and architectural wonders, including the famous Zwinger Museum and Palace and the cathedral, the Frauenkirche.
		The Dresden briefing was only one of many that he routinely attended, and even before the crews left the ground he was troubled because of one notable omission from the routine.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWdresden.htm (2740 words)

	War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity
		Conventional wisdom has long had it that the bombing of the cultural pearl in eastern Germany was gratuitous violence and an inhuman attempt to kill as many civilians as possible in a city that had little in the way of an armaments industry or strategic importance.
		The air war is the only part of the war where the Allies, leaving aside the Russians, seriously ran the Axis powers a good race in terms of ruthlessness.
		Dresden was used throughout the Cold War as a cudgel to beat the West with.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/news/spiegel-2-15-05c.html (1976 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Bombing of Dresden in World War II
		Regarding the Allied decision to target Dresden, some proponents of the war crime position argue that an awareness of the devastation known to be caused by firebombing and the effect on the civilian population below was greater than that justified by military necessity and establishes their case on a prima facie basis.
		Dresden was the seventh largest German city and by far the largest unbombed built-up area left and thus was contributing to the defense of Germany itself.
		The Dresden bombings achieved the strategic objectives that underlay the attack and were of mutual importance to the Allies and the Russians.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II (6661 words)

	Bombing of Dresden in World War II
		Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, was fire-bombed by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) over two days on February 14 and 15, 1945) three months before the the end of World War II in Europe on May 8.
		Dresden itself was most noted as a cultural centre, with noted architecture in the Zwinger Palace, the Dresden State Opera House and its historic cathedral (the Frauenkirche) and other churches.
		Some have suggested that the bombing of Dresden may have been a war crime or a crime against humanity and that those allied commanders who ordered the action and the airmen who carried it out should be tried as war criminals.
	www.askfactmaster.com /Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II (2765 words)

	Bombing of Dresden in World War II: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, was fire-bombed by Allied air forces (the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) over three days (February 13-15, 1945) near the end of World War II.
		The Dresden bombing is a strongly debated decision, and the action is still widely perceived as lacking military justification, even within the context of the controversial area bombing policy pursued against Germany by Britain's Bomber Command[?] in 1942-1945.
		Author Kurt Vonnegut had been captured during the Battle of the Bulge and was a prisoner of war near Dresden during the bombing.
	www.encyclopedian.com /fi/Fire-bombing-of-Dresden.html (338 words)

	::Bombing::
		Throughout World War Two, Germany was heavily bombed though for many people the blanket bombing of Germany could be forgiven after the traumas of Dunkirk and the tribulations of the Battle of Britain.
		Even today, the bombing of German cities remains a controversial issue and the unveiling of a new statue of ‘Bomber’ Harris in 1992 by a church near Trafalgar Square, London, caused problems and it was covered with red paint within 24 hours of its unveiling.
		Bombing raids could be so bad that firestorms could be created whereby the flames ‘ate’ up all the oxygen where the fire was and sucked in oxygen from the surrounding areas at such speeds that hurricanes were made which sucked in to them all living beings.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /bombing.htm (1022 words)

	Bombing of Dresden in World War II - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, was fire-bombed by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) over three days (February 13-15, 1945) near the end of World War II.
		This directive led to the raid on Dresden and marked the erosion of one last moral restriction in the bombing war: the term "evacuation from the east" did not refer to retreating troops but to the civilian refugees fleeing from the advancing Soviet troops.
		The Dresden bombing is a strongly debated decision, and the action is still widely perceived as lacking military justification, even within the context of the controversial area bombing policy pursued against Germany by Britain's Bomber Command in 1942-1945.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II (1054 words)

	Dresden
		Meißen (28,000 inhabitants) in the borough of Dresden.
		Dresden remains a major cultural centre of historical memory, owing to the city's destruction in World War II.
		Dresden is attempting to take up its old cultural importance among the European cities that it had from the 19th century to the 1920s when it was a centre of fine and visual arts, of architecture and music.
	schools-wikipedia.org /wp/d/Dresden.htm (8468 words)

	World War II: German Film Recalls Dresden Bombing - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News
		The destruction of Dresden on February 13, 1945 is one of the most controversial bombing raids of the conflict.
		, author of "Dresden: Tuesday, Feb. 13, 1945", argues that while the raid was cruel and ruthless, the city was a valid target because its industries contributed to the war effort.
		While "Dresden" is part of that trend, its makers were clearly at pains to strike a balance by constantly reminding the viewer of Germany's guilt.
	www.spiegel.de /international/0,1518,400691,00.html (1315 words)

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	history.searchbeat.com /worldwar.htm (3856 words)

	The Bombing of Dresden
		Today the bombing of Dresden is embedded in our collective consciousness not as the toppling blow to Nazi Germany but as one of history's cruelest wartime atrocities, a vicious and militarily unjustifiable act of vengeful retribution against a peaceful, beautiful, defenseless city somehow removed from the war-making machinery that had otherwise consumed all of Germany.
		What really happened at Dresden - both the facts of the events themselves and the reasons behind the remarkable legacy of propaganda that has left us in the dark about those events for nearly sixty years - is the subject of Frederick Taylor's groundbreaking study.
		Analyzes the motive for the aerial bombing in Dresden, Germany in 1945 and the events surrounding it.
	www.au.af.mil /au/aul/school/asbc/dresden.htm (408 words)

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		Bombing of Dresden in World War II The WWII Dresden Holocaust - 'A Single Column Of Flame' (a narrative)
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	SPIEGEL Interview: "Dresden Bombing Is To Be Regretted Enormously" - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News
		The Feb. 13, 1945 bombing of Dresden by the British Royal Air Force has become a symbol for excessive, gratuitous violence on the part of the Allies during World War II.
		Many of the tens of thousands of dead from the bombing raid were burned in the city's central square following the attack.
		Residents of Dresden had hoped that the city's baroque beauty would save "Florence on the Elbe" from bombing raids.
	www.spiegel.de /international/0,1518,341239,00.html (2207 words)

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	Dresden - Wikinfo
		There is also Dresden, Ohio in the U. Located on the river Elbe, Dresden is the capital city of the German state of Saxony, with a population of about 500,000.
		The city has suffered repeated damage: by fire in 1491, from bombardment in 1760 and during the suppression of a constitutionalist uprising in 1849.
		Renowned for its architecture, and as a center for elaborate porcelain manufacture (based at nearby Meissen from 1710), the city was largely destroyed by Allied bombing in February 1945 even though the end of World War II was foreseeable.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Dresden (937 words)

	World War II - 1945
		Feb 13/14 - Dresden is destroyed by a firestorm after Allied bombing raids.
		March 6, 1945 - Last German offensive of the war begins to defend oil fields in Hungary.
		Aug 8, 1945 - Soviets declares war on Japan and invade Manchuria.
	www.wwiiguns.com /world_warii_1945/world_warii_1945.html (443 words)

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