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The Bombing of Dresden: Was the Attack Fully Justified?
Was Operation Thunderclap the 1945 air raid on the German city a military necessity or an Allied war crime? The question is still debated.
Here’s What You Need to Remember: It was February 1945, and the Bombing of Dresden had yet to commence. At this point in the war, the citizens of the capital of the German state of Saxony were beginning to think that they were living a charmed life. After all, they knew that every other major German city except theirs had been flattened by countless Allied air raids since 1940.