Gonna go out on a limb and say this picture isn’t from the 14th.
charckle
Was this one that with incendiary bombs?
KnuteRockme
It’s strange that the trees are all leafed out, or there at all.
The Dresden bombing is worth remembering, because it was a huge project involving thousands of people to perpetrate it, but it didn’t help the war effort enough to justify the collateral damage of 25,000 dead. When politicians today threaten to do this to another country, it’s worth remembering that not much is gained by burning civilians.
![Dresden, Germany, 75 years ago on February 14 1945 [2048×1445]](https://i.redd.it/w6q4rnej5vg41.jpg)
Crag_r
Gonna go out on a limb and say this picture isn’t from the 14th.
charckle
Was this one that with incendiary bombs?
KnuteRockme
It’s strange that the trees are all leafed out, or there at all.
The Dresden bombing is worth remembering, because it was a huge project involving thousands of people to perpetrate it, but it didn’t help the war effort enough to justify the collateral damage of 25,000 dead. When politicians today threaten to do this to another country, it’s worth remembering that not much is gained by burning civilians.
muchtimeonwork
Not the best angle:
https://earth.google.com/web/@51.05248314,13.75169622,118.28489818a,283.27712928d,35y,52.71920455h,72.33366239t,360r
WCEnte189
I live there. It must have been so beautiful before WW2. Wish I could see the old City in all its beauty 🙁
suffraghetti
Fun (or not so fun) fact. Some Germans like to say "My goodness, it looks like Dresden 45 in here!" when they mean it looks messy somewhere.
zepourri
Just watched the episode about it from the WW2 in color by Netflix. Pretty intense, thousands of people just melted together. Madness all around.
dave_890
I wonder how all those trees managed not only to survive the firestorm, but to keep their leaves?