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Includes survivors' accounts of the disorders Discusses the many debates within the morality and requirement of concentrating on Dresden Includes footnotes and a bibliography for even more reading Includes a table of articles "We observed horrendous things: cremated adults shrunk to how big is small children, bits of arms and legs, dead people, entire young families burnt to death, using people ran back and forth, burnt coaches filled with civilian refugees, dead rescuers and soldiers, many were contacting and looking for his or her children and young families, and fire everywhere you go, everywhere fire, and at all times the hot blowing wind of the firestorm threw people back into the burning properties they were trying to escape from. I cannot forget these horrendous details. I could remember them." (Lothar Metzger, survivor) In the center of Feb 1945, the Allies were continuously advancing against the Germans from both east and western world, with United kingdom and American makes having repulsed the German offensive during the Battle of the Bulge and the Soviet Union's Red Military pressing from the east. Indeed, the war would be over in just a little more than two months. Nonetheless, it was in this timeframe that the Allies conducted one of the very most notorious disorders of the war: the targeting of Dresden. Being a Royal Air Drive memo said before the attack, "Dresden, the seventh major city in Germany and not much smaller than Manchester, is also the major unbombed built up area the adversary has got. Amid winter, with refugees pouring westward and troops to be rested, roofs are at a premium, not only to give shelter to individuals, refugees, and troops alike but to accommodate the administrative services displaced from other areas. At onetime well known because of its china, Dresden is rolling out into an industrial city of first-class importance"....

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