Brett Wilkins is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
The Allied destruction of Dresden wasn't the biggest or deadliest aerial bombardment of a German city during World War II. But it is by far the most infamous, largely due to Kurt Vonnegut's anti-war masterpiece Slaughterhouse-Five. February 13 marks the 75th anniversary of what Vonnegut, who survived the bombing as a prisoner-of-war, called 'carnage unfathomable.
the alarm was given. We children knew that sound and... hurried downstairs into our cellar... My older sister and I carried my baby twin sisters, my mother carried a little suitcase and the bottles with milk for our babies. On the radio we heard with great horror the news: 'Attention, a great air raid will come over our town!' ... Some minutes later we heard a horrible noise -- the bombers. There were nonstop explosions.
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