The British veteran, who died in 2021, wrote that he considered the Dresden bombing a war crime, and many historians have seen the attack as a senseless killing of civilians in the final stretch ...

Commemorations are taking place in Germany of Dresden to mark the 80th anniversary of the Allied bombing of Dresden in the Second World War. The British Royal Family’s Duke of Kent, Prince ...

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Dresden in ruins after the Second World War bombing (Prisma by Dukas Presseagentur GmbH/Alamy/PA) The devastating two-day attack by RAF Bomber Command began on February 13 1945 and saw 4,000 ...

View taken from the destroyed Dresden town hall after the Allied bombing raids of February 13-14, 1945. More than 25,000 people died during the Allied firebombing of the city of Dresden, Germany ...

The Duke of Kent has described “the grief we feel in our hearts” at the “terrible destruction and loss of life” in the Allied bombing of Dresden as he marked the 80th anniversary of the ...

“I still suffer at times the memories of those terrible events,” Gregg wrote. The British veteran, who died in 2021, wrote that he considered the Dresden bombing a war crime, and many historians have ...

The Duke of Kent is representing the King at commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of the Allied bombing of Dresden. Edward, the late Queen’s 89-year-old cousin and the oldest working ...