when aaron steers comes to the neuer markt public square and sees the restored. he is reminded of the dresden bombings 75 years ago. here. and everything was destroyed and this was where most of the people were killed in the firestorm then on the next day the duration following kisha collapsed yes the square was reduced to rubble more than. on the evening of february 13th 1945 over the span of just 15 minutes the allied forces dropped bombs containing 900 tons of explosives on dressed and during the next 2 days 3 more attack waves followed after that the baroque old town lay in ruins at the time aaron's tears was 9 years old when the bombs were dropped on dresden he and his parents he had in a bomb shelter in the cellar of their house seen here in the former you hungry organ alley. and. after the 1st attack we left the apartment while everything was burning i can still see it before my eyes the flames creeping over the rooftops of neighboring houses and. i'm not sure what it looked like afterwards that was my parents' apartment was on the top of the. aunt's tears

when aaron steers comes to the neuer markt public square and sees the restored. he is reminded of the dresden bombings 75 years ago. here. and everything was destroyed and this was where most of the people were killed in the fire storm then on the next day the duration following kisha collapsed yes the square was reduced to rubble. on the evening of february 13th 1945 over the span of just 15 minutes the allied forces dropped bombs containing 900 tons of explosives on dresden during the next 2 days 3 more attack waves followed after that the baroque old town lay in ruins. at the time and tears was 9 years old when the bombs were dropped on dresden he and his parents he had in a bomb shelter in the cellar of their house seen here in the former you hungry organ alley. and. after the 1st attack we left the apartment while everything was burning and i can still see it before my eyes the flames creeping over the rooftops of neighboring houses and it will be. what it looked like afterwards that was my parents' apartment was on the top of that that's what the ruins look

the target area clearly included the neuer markt district and surrounding streets in this war neither side seems that interested in cultural landmarks or monuments when it came to plane bombing raids. the area warfare began with the german daytime attack on london in september $940.00 the love tough assume switched to night raids and targeted numerous other cities during this phase of the german air campaign which lasted until may 941 an estimated 43000 civilians were killed and more than 1000000 buildings destroyed. on nov 14th $940.00 the germans launched a devastating attack on the industrial city of coventry about a 3rd of the local factories were destroyed but residential areas were also cheat more than $500.00 civilians were killed in this attack. coventry's cathedral was reduced to rubble. in june 944 germany started firing missiles into it in the v. 2 a targets in britain. friend death of a 2 missile struck a residential street $200.00 people would be killed instantly as in childhood wrenching after stroke took. the last of the 2 to hit britain landed on kent in late march 945