It is oft repeated that Churchill “ordered” the firebombing of Dresden as a “vicious payback” for the German bombing of Coventry (which Churchill is often ...
However, Churchill and Roosevelt did promise Stalin to continue their bombing campaign against eastern Germany in preparation for the ...
approximately 1,200 bombers from Britain and the United States attacked the German city of Dresden during ...
In March 1945, the German government ordered its press to publish a falsified casualty figure of 200,000 for
Bombing Dresden, at Soviet request in 1945, was not even ordered by Churchill. Yet there is no reason to suppose he would not have met his ...
Victor Gregg: As a prisoner of war held in Dresden, I still suffer the memories of those terrible events and my anger refuses to subside.
Some have questioned the military value of Dresden. Even British Prime Minister Winston Churchill expressed doubts immediately after the ...
Ordered by Deputy Chief of the Air Staff Norman Bottomley to bomb the
Bombing of Dresden, during World War II, Allied bombing raids on
Bomber Command was ordered to attack Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig ...