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Dresden [1] is a 2006 German television film directed by Roland Suso Richter. It is set during the bombing of Dresden in World War II . This romance movie takes place during the historical Anglo-American bombing of the city of Dresden in February 1945.
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The Drama of Dresden (German: Das Drama von Dresden) is a 2005 German television documentary film directed by Sebastian Dehnhardt about the bombing of the city of Dresden in 1945 during World War II. [ 1 ]
Between 25 June 1943 and 20 April 1945, the 100th Bomb Group took part in just over 300 missions, and it is eight of those that accounted for nearly half of their losses. On average, a crew ...
Japan was nowhere near surrendering before the bombs were dropped “The big [myth] was that the Japanese were ready to surrender and would have surrendered even if we had not dropped those bombs ...
The church withstood two days and nights of the attacks, and the eight interior sandstone pillars supporting the large dome held up long enough for the evacuation of 300 people who had sought shelter in the church crypt, before succumbing to the heat generated by some 650,000 incendiary bombs that were dropped on the city.
The Destruction of Dresden is a 1963 book by British author and Holocaust denier David Irving, in which he describes the February 1945 Allied bombing of Dresden in World War II. The book became an international best-seller during the 1960s debate about the morality of the World War II area bombing of the civilian population of Nazi Germany ...
In the Coventry Blitz the Germans used 50 parachute air-mines and 36,000 incendiary bombs of which 20 were incendiary petroleum mines, and in the Feb 3 1945 raid on Berlin the Americans used some napalm bombs, so it is possible that some were used on Dresden, but not half of all those dropped.