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'Reduced to atoms': The devastating 1945 Allied bombing campaign in Dresden

For 15 hours beginning on the night of Feb. 13, 1945, the historic city of Dresden, celebrated as the "German Florence" was battered by Allied warplanes. Until that date, Germany's seventh largest ...
AOL

Large WW2 bomb defused after Dresden evacuated

The bomb was found near the Carola Bridge, which is being rebuilt after collapsing into the river in 2024. An unexploded British World War Two bomb in Dresden has been defused, police in Germany say.
Texarkana Gazette

Dresden to evacuate 18,000 people after discovery of WWII bomb

DRESDEN, Germany -- Around 18,000 people must evacuate an area of central Dresden by 9 a.m. local time Wednesday after a World War II bomb was discovered near a city, police said Tuesday.
Case Western Reserve University

Artsci’s Susanne Vees-Gulani explores how the city of Dresden's 'innocence' shaped the memory of World War II bombing

In her new book, Icon Dresden, Susanne Vees-Gulani connects historical memory with contemporary politics to examine how Dresden’s image as a beautiful, innocent cultural icon—cemented long before ...