Dresden wasn't a particularly 'hot' place to bomb. Sure, it was enemy territory. It had factories. But they knew they were winning the war already and they still bombed it so damn hard that buildings melted. That's solid concrete and brick people.

That's what made me wince - it was like some kind of giant act of hatred. There's only so much bomb shelters can tolerate and a lot of people died not in the actual bombing but because it took so long to dig them out of the wreckage melted ontop. There were even POWs in those shelters. Dresden was an almost inconsiderate act of destruction that went down in history because they hit it as hard as they bloody well could. And it turned out that was really, really damn hard.

Yhorian.