The Atlantic’s In Focus — Remembering Dresden: 70 Years After the Firebombing

Remembering Dresden: 70 Years After the Firebombing Remembering Dresden: 70 Years After the Firebombing In the last months of World War II, Allied bombers conducted several major bombing raids on the eastern German city of Dresden. Beginning on the night of February 13, 1945, more than 1,200 heavy bombers dropped nearly 4,000 tons of high-explosive and incendiary bombs on the city in four successive raids. View the full gallery > RECENT GALLERIES Asylum Seekers Flood Into Hungary Zoo Security Drills: When Animals Escape Human Landscapes of Canada