On Feb. 13-14, 1945, three months before the end of World War II in Europe, British and American air forces carried out a massive bombing of Dresden, a German city known as a center of art and culture ...

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 ... three months before the end of the ...

He was sent to Dresden to be executed on the day the bombing began. A combination photo shows the statue of German religious reformer Martin Luther in front of the ruins of the Frauenkirche ...

During the five years following Hitler's invasion of Poland, Dresden was mostly spared the bombing that ravaged much of Europe. But on February 13, 1945, nearly 800 British aircraft dropped more ...