Dresden Fire Bombing Raids (last months of W.W. II) -- on this date in history

 The Allied military began 

three-day bombing raids on

Dresden, Germany, destroying the

city's baroque era city center

Feb. 13 - 15, 1945

killing as many as 25,000 people

and triggering a firestorm at city

center

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