When forcefully challenged by the General Staff for his harsh appraisal of the Dresden raid, Churchill withdrew his ill-considered comment.

This policy culminated in the Dresden raid in 1945, in which the USAAF also joined.

At the Yalta Conference he briefed the Western Allies on how the Allies could aid Soviets by bombing lines of communications which led to the Dresden raid.

Three municipal and 17 rural cemeteries outside Dresden recorded up to 30 April 1945 a total of at least 21,895 buried bodies of the Dresden raids, including those cremated on the Altmarkt.

A party's representative, Jürgen Gansel, described the Dresden raids as "mass murder," and "Dresden's holocaust of bombs."

Howard Cowan, an Associated Press war correspondent, filed a story about the Dresden raid.

The thing was, though, there was almost nothing in the twenty-seven volumes about the Dresden raid, even though it had been such a howling success.

I was among the lot still clinging to life in the Flossenberg concentration camp when the Dresden raid took place.

This force was roughly equal to that attacking Helsinki, but the Dresden raid killed about 25,000 to 35,000 people and the city was almost completely destroyed.