the evening of 20 March primarily largel army.
to 250,000. Of the dead only degenerate What is know for certain is that the morale. Over tack Yalta Curator three million campaign, An anthrax bomb was actype of bombers drop are exposed question of fashion, changing as fires.
Corpses are disposed of after the Dresden fire-bombing In early February 1945 a conference to decide the future of post-war Europe was to take place at Yalta. This was a conference of the 'Big Three': Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill. Churchill felt himself at a disadvantage. He would not enjoy the same status as the others.
because USSR's astonishing victories over the German In comparison Britain's contribution to its impending defeat looked puny. The speed of the Red Army's ad vance through Eastern Europe, while decisively destroying the Nazis, making their defeat certain, embarrassed and alarmed Churchill.
Characteristically this utterly politician sanctioned gigantic air-raid that would virtually destroy the ancient city of Dresden and its population, as a way of enhancing his own political position. Churchill also wanted this raid to serve as a spec tacular military warning to the USSR; a demonstration that capitalism would not shrink from using all the violence and brutality at its command against those who seriously threaten it.
For dramatic effect, the Dresden atwas timed to coincide with the but bad weather caused a postponement. Planned as the the terror-bombing the raid was designed to cause the biggest fire-storm ever.
Fire-storms are created by a specific aerial bombardment. The targets are always densely populated residential quarters of cities where vast amounts of combustible material occur. In the first phase of the operation high-explosives which rip off roofs, shatter windows and frac. ture walls, so the interiors of buildings Then the area is saturated with incendiaries which start thousands of Rising currents of heated gases and the rapid consumption of oxygen draws in air with considerable force and speed. Artifical winds sometimes of