"Dresden had no defences, no anti-aircraft guns, no searchlights, nothing." Gregg was captured at Arnhem in the Netherlands in 1944. He was sent near Dresden to work in a factory, which he was ...

The Dresden police starts for Saturday from a ... incendiary bombs reducing much of its historic centre to rubble. The firestorm that followed destroyed vast areas and caused mass civilian casualties.

Dresden marked the 80th anniversary of the ... “My grandma was ten at the time and she pulled her little sister through a firestorm in a handcart. She told me so much about that time,” said ...

Commemorations are taking place in Germany of Dresden to mark the 80th anniversary ... the time and she pulled her little sister through a firestorm in a handcart. She told me so much about ...

Around 25,000 people were killed in the firestorm and much of the historic ... He will also attend the official commemoration event in Dresden Town Hall and take part in a moment of reflection ...