35K views · 1.5K reactions | At the end of WWII, the Allied forces killed around 25,000 people when they bombed the German city of Dresden. One local man, who was nine at the time, remembers it all. | DW News | Facebook

29K views · 130 reactions | On the evening of #ThisDayInHistory in 1945, a series of Allied firebombing raids began against the German city of Dresden, reducing the historic town to rubble and flames, and killing roughly 25,000 people. Despite the horrendous scale of destruction, it arguably accomplished little strategically, since the Germans were already on the verge of surrender. https://www.history.com/news/dresden-bombing-wwii-allies | HISTORY | Facebook