The territory was known to contain housing for one hundred and ten factories and fifty thousand workers. This accumulation of people contributed to and supported the Nazi group.
Both British and American Air forces were scheming to wipe out the enemy region. Through the 13th and 15th of February, 1945 Dresden was attacked. Lieutenant colonel Charles Portal of the British Royal Air Force declared that all the towns and near by cities of the social area were to be bombed, including Dresden. In precisely four raids, more than 3,900 tons of highly explosive bombs and incendiary devices were released on the city. These explosives were dropped by 1,300 heavy bombers.
There was much discussion and debate given to the amount of deaths the attack caused. In March of 1945, the Nazi regime demanded its press to publish a Death toll of over 200,000 people due to the Dresden raids. But other death estimations were exaggerated as high as 500,000. These numbers led the city council into a private investigation to find out a legit estaminet of Deaths. In 2010 there was a reported death toll at a maximum of 25,000 victims killed due to the bombing.
However, Dresden was not the only city destroyed by the attack. The allies bombed the city of Pforzheim in the same year, killing a large amount of 18,000 civilians. A few years back in 1943, they bombed the large city of Hamburg, causing one of the most magnificent firestorms. This massacre killed a rough 50,000 civilians. These suggest that the raid on Dresden was not the most severe attack, but still significantly horrible.
The bombing of Dresden is continued to be recognized and referenced as a multiple example of the agony and grieve of civilians due to the Ali of the British and American Air Force. It is still argued that Dresden was a city of poor, or rather no military averment. It lacked assertiveness, and that is why it was so easily damaged, and effected by its attackers, and their strategic bombing.
