Today's Historical Footnote

For years, the Allied bombing of Dresden in February, 1945, has been widely described as a wartime atrocity that killed more than 100,000 people, most of them innocent civilians.The revisionist narrative on Dresden goes something like this: the city had little, if any, value as a military target; it was choked with civilians fleeing the advancing Red Army, and along with its human toll, the raid also destroyed countless architectural and cultural treasures in a city described as "Florence on the

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