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Apocalypse of Dresden

In February 1945, Allied aircraft bombed Dresden, almost completely destroying the city and its historic old town. The myth of the "victim city", cultivated first by the Nazis and then by the communists, has survived despite the efforts of historians to this day. Half a million Germans died in Allied air raids during the war. Hamburg suffered greater losses than Dresden, where in 1943 35,000 people died in two days. inhabitants. Cologne, Berlin, Pforzheim and Kassel also suffered as badly as Dresden. However, nowhere else, apart from Dresden, did a cult of sacrifices arise on such a scale. Only in 2004 did the city authorities appoint a commission of historians whose aim was to verify the current data on the number of victims and determine the true number. After five years of research, historians have determined that between 18,000 and 25,000 people died during the February air raids. people. "Self-pity is a typical attitude of Dresden people, who see themselves as something special, better than others," says historian Thomas Widera, a member of the commission examining the number of victims. He appeals not to forget that the attack on Dresden was a consequence of the war unleashed by Germany. As he points out, the bombing forced the SS to stop deporting Jews to concentration camps.