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Victims were cremated on huge funeral pyres for days after the 1945 British raid.

 Index to air raid on Dresden, February 13-14, 1945

• Daily Telegraph: Oct 2, 2008: Dresden bombing death toll lower than thought – historical commission of German Government publishes report
• Sept 2010: Mayor of Dresden protests at British plans to erect a London monument to RAF Bomber Command: “100,000 still missing” after RAF obliterated Dresden | Our Dresden gallery

… and Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five

• Kurt Vonnegut in The Sunday Times on the Holocaust of Dresden | Voice from beyond the grave: “His outrage over Dresden was reawakened in the 1960s by a book by David Irving, who went on to become a Holocaust denier, and Vonnegut took flak later for the faith he put in Irving’s inflated death count.” The journaille just can’t drop it, like a dog with an old corpse-bone | How Kurt Vonnegut’s blockbuster, Slaughterhouse Five, was born | Funny, it doesn’t mention that he admits he was inspired by David Irving’s The Destruction of Dresden – The Memory Hole beckons | Kurt Vonnegut left a final book criticising air raid on Dresden | Real holocaust denial – Defaming the dead, Lipstadt accuses Kurt Vonnegut of using “David Irving’s fabrications” to rewrite the history of the bombing of Dresden (Who’s “rewriting”?) | How The New Yorker reviewed Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five on May 17, 1969 | The Independent smears David Irving over Kurt Vonnegut and The Destruction of Dresden | A Radical’s Diary: The Times also attacks him | The death of writer Kurt Vonnegut | Times Columnist Oliver Kamm huffs and puffs at us

Other

• Taking Chutzpah to new heights – As Dresden mourns true Holocaust, Hungarian Jews sue United States for, uh, not being bombed: It’s money, stupid
• The hellfire of Dresden, 1945

Death Toll: see special index

• David Irving finds a crucial decoded document on Dresden’s huge death roll | on which see this Russian documentary: pt. 1 | 2 | 3
• Letter: Stephen Combe asks about the German official commission investigating the Dresden death roll
• Sir John Keegan ponders on the needless British bombing of Dresden in Feb 1945 which killed tens of thousands in two hours
• More on Prof Richard “Skunky” Evans and Hanns Voigt
• H-Net reviews new book on WW2 bombing episode: Firestorm: The Bombing of Dresden, 1945 | In The Independent: David Irving was first to press for Dresden reconciliation projects in 1960s | Outraged letter of a Mrs Assersohn at this statement | The debate continues | A Multimedia Overview of Dresden Firestorm

A free download of David Irving’s
Der Untergang Dresdens (Ullstein edition)

• Dresden: Massenproteste gegen Neonazi-Aufmarsch [Seven thousand German Reds protest at Right Wing instrumentalising the 1945 Dresden holocaust: Politician lays memorial stone, but 135,000 death toll marked down to “25,000” | Der Spiegel now suggests that the July 1943 death toll in Hamburg (48,000) was higher – so those editors are safe from prosecution | Kurt Vonnegut’s unknown writing on Dresden | Vonnegut admits he was inspired by David Irving’s famous book on the raid | free download of book | or buy
• The Jerusalem Post on Dresden victims and German manipulation
• Real holocaust denial:German government claims Dresden bombing killed fewer than thought: The Allied firebombing in 1945 killed only 25,000 people, a special commission has found: so that’s all right then | our dossier on the atrocity | David Irving: “Apocalypse 1945: the Destruction of Dresden” (free download) | order book
• Jan – Feb 1945: Some British documents leading up to the raid on Dresden
• Documents on the Dresden death roll
• More on Prof Richard “Skunky” Evans and Hanns Voigt
• Flashback: “The Allied air raid on Dresden on Feb. 13-14 killed 300,000 persons,” reported Stars & Stripes, May 5, 1945
• More rubbish from BRD Hitler and the Nazi leadership may have known beforehand about 1945 Dresden air raid, and done nothing to save the city, ‘according to new evidence from Germany’ | and Mr Irving’s comments
• David Irving writes a letter to The Times, July 1966, on new documents on the Dresden death roll | An article in Dresdner Neues Nachrichten Jan 25, 2005, comments on this, but gets the wrong end of the stick | Mr Irving comments on the article
• Foreword to the original 1963 edition of The Destruction of Dresden, by Air Marshal Sir Robert Saundby
• Jacket text, David Irving: Apocalypse 1945: the Destruction of Dresden (1995 edition)
• David Cesarani: in The Independent, “Dresden, 1945: a legitimate target”: whole article  | excerpt with Mr Irving’s comments
• David Irving comments on Frederick Taylor, Dresden, 13 February 1945: A Radical’s Diary
• Mr Irving contributed to the Frauenkirche reconstruction fund
• Palm Beach Post reviews Frederick Taylor’s book, Dresden, 13 February 1945
• David Irving, free download: The Destruction of Dresden [all editions]
• The Times, Apr 15, 2004: Rebuilt Frauenkirche cathedral reopens controversy over bombing of Dresden | British cross is hoisted to top of rebuilt Frauenkirche June 22, 2004
• Labour Cabinet Minister Richard Crossman wrote a feature length article on The Destruction of Dresden in a 1963 Esquire magazine — and plagiarised David Irving’s book to do it
• Göring’s ADC Bodenschatz and Bassenge talk in British captivity about … the Dresden air raid and compare it with concentration camp atrocity photographs

 Now posted, an exlusive pictorial series: THE BRITISH FIRE RAID ON DRESDEN KILLED A HUNDRED THOUSAND CIVILIANS IN TWO HOURS

• “Theodor Dalrymple” writes a savage attack on David Irving and his Dresden book in a New York magazine, Jan 2005 | Mr Irving responds
• Notes on Frederick Taylor’s book Dresden by  Charles Hughes of Felixstowe, UK
• Dresden attack saved a Jew, says Berliner Zeitung (a Springer newspaper) 
• Germany appoints “commission of historians” to investigate Dresden death toll 
• Deutsche Stimme interviews David Irving at length (in German) about Dresden, Auschwitz, World War II and history: “The German soul is still enemy-occupied territory. . .”
• Dresden attack saved a Jew, says Berliner Zeitung (a Springer newspaper) 
• David Irving wrote a letter to The Times in 1996 correcting his own error on Dresden air raid casualties (in German) | His commentary now (English)
• Mr A Marques of Lisbon has arguments about the 1945 Dresden death toll
• Mariano Mora, a composer, wants a sound recording of the 1945 bombing of Dresden
• The Independent smears David Irving over Kurt Vonnegut and The Destruction of Dresden | A Radical’s Diary: The Times also attacks him | The death of writer Kurt Vonnegut | David Irving was first to press for Dresden reconciliation projects in 1960s
• H-Net reviews a new book: Firestorm: The Bombing of Dresden, 1945

 Der Spiegel The Destruction of Dresden: A Multimedia Overview of the Firestorm

• Feb 2008: An article in German nwspaper Wochenkurier about the American strafing attacks on Dresden Feb 14, 1945 – which conformist historians swear never occurred
• Stephen Combe asks about the German official commission investigating the Dresden death roll