On this day, February 13, 1945, the Allies begin firebombing Dresden.

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Today in 1945, the Allies begin firebombing Dresden. 25,000 civilians perish in the inferno. "The moment has come when the question of bombing German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror should be reviewed," an uneasy Churchill will later write

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Tue Feb 13, 2024: On this day, February 13, 1945, the Allies begin firebombing Dresden.

Mon Feb 13, 2023: On February 13, 1945, the Allies begin firebombing Dresden.

Thu Feb 13, 2020: Dresden Bombing. 13-15 February 1945

Sun Feb 15, 2015: Dresden was a civilian town with no military significance. Why did we burn its people?

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1. The result was one of the most powerful pieces of antiwar...

...literature ever written, "Slaughterhouse Five."

It is also one of the most evocative descriptions of PTSD, by someone who clearly suffered it, Kurt Vonnegut.

I have always tried to adhere to the one word opening sentence of the place where the novel begins, oddly in the second chapter: "Listen."

I have always wondered how that sentence should be read aloud, screamed or whispered.

We do not "listen" enough to what war is.