The state of Saxony is home to Dresden as well as two other major industrial cities, those being Leipzig and Chemnitz which were also targeted by allied bombing raids. My aim in this post is to look at the population damage that Dresden suffered, as a first step to researching the damage done to other…
From the beginning of my research into the Dresden Firebombing and its results, I have, until recently, been unsure as to what exactly should be my focus. My search brought me to a couple of interesting findings, the first of which are in the form of two maps made before and after the war. The…
Dresden is a very interesting city for a number of reasons. It is located in East Germany and was part of the German Democratic Republic (DDR) until reunification. It was decimated at the end of World War II by Allied bombing raids in one of the most devastating non-nuclear attacks in world history. Its population…