Dresden 1945: The Devil's Tinderbox

13 February air force aircraft Allied Altstadt American Berlin Bomber Command bombing of Dresden Breslau British Brüx building burning burnt camp cellar centre Chemnitz Churchill civilian corpses crew dead East Eddie Taylor Elbe enemy Erika fire fire-storm flak flames flat flying Frau Friedrichstadt front Gauleiter Geoff Geoff Taylor German Grosser Garten ground Group gunner guns Hamburg Harris heavy Hitler husband incendiaries killed Kurt Kurt Vonnegut Lancaster later Leipzig light lived looked Luftwaffe main station marker leader Marshal master bomber Maurice Smith miles military morning mother Mutschmann Neustadt night fighters officer pilot prisoners railway Red army refugees road rubble ruins Russians Schloss screaming smoke soldiers Soviet Squadron Stalin street survived target thought told took town train USAAF walk Walter Thiel wave of attack Wing Commander women wounded Yalta Conference