Dresden is filled with refugees

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"Even the "hundred thousand" figure for those reported missing must be an under-estimate. There were over half a million homeless refugees in the streets of Dresden, fleeing the Red Army siege of Breslau to the East. Whole refugee families must have been engulfed by the Dresden holocaust, with nobody surviving to report them as "missing"."--David Irving

[1945] Air Raid on Dresden Killed More Than 300,000

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[2007] Apocalypse 1945: the Destruction of Dresden by David Irving

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Dresden, before and after

Dresden

Pictures below from [2007] Apocalypse 1945: the Destruction of Dresden by David Irving

Dresden is filled with refugees on the night of the raid

The aiming point was routinely marked in the center of the German town's residential area. Here a line, and a X. marks where the bombs are to be concentrated in Wuppertal Elberfeld. Five thousand died in the blaze. Meanwhile, the politicians in Parliament lied.

The first bomb on Dreden: a target indicator bomb released by Flight Lieutenant William Topper, Marker Leader, hurtles down toward the Sports stadium, marker reference point.

The candles of doom. The target indicators go down over the already blazing city. The Germans called this eery spectacle "Christmas Trees."

A horrific firestorm begins in a German city, as more target indicator showers rain down as guides for the oncoming main force.

As the firestorm blazes, another 8,000 bomb hurtles down into the inferno, silhouetted against the blazing city.

American bombers over Dresden at noon the next day found great fires raging.

The Dresden target map actually used by Wing Cdr Maurice Smith for the first attack on Dresden. It shows the fan shaped sector he was to attack -- the heart of the famous old city. Those who claim the target was the city's industries or bridges or railroads are lying.

Not until March 1945 did a reconnaissance plane manage to secure an aerial photo of the devastated city.

Remains of air raid casualties are gathered up for identification and open air cremation in Dresden's Altmarkt square, Feb 25, 1945

Troops heap up the bodies on makeshift pyres, trampling them down to make room for more

A family caught in the British air raid on Dresden, shortlybefore their burial at the Tolkewitz cemetery (later calle Johannis Friedhof). Their outer clothes and shoes are removed first for recycling.

The devastating raids continue right to the end. On February 27, two weeks after Dresden, the RAF obliterates Pforzheim, killing 17,000 in the firestorm -- one in four of the town's population

Pathetic chalked messages on the ruins of survivors seeking information on missing wives, mothers family buried in the ruins.

In March 1945 Churchill wrote to his Chiefs of Staff, attempting to shrug off responsibility for the Dresden raids. They refused to accept the document

The RAF Master Bomber at the first Dresden attack, Wing Cdr Maurice Smith, interviewed by author David Irving in his office, March 1962. Shown the apalling photographs of the carnage, he went quiet and blushed.

Photo: Dresden air raid victims being cremated 500 at a time on the Altmarkt square, Feb 25, 1945 (copyright photo by the late Walter Hahn from Apocalypse 1945: the Destruction of Dresden)