78 Years Ago Today Churchill Incinerated 100,000 Defenseless Civilians in Dresden

by Michael Hoffman () The original headline of this article was: 'The People Who Were Burned to Ashes on Ash Wednesday' It was Shrove Tuesday, 1945 in the magnificent German art city of Dresden, which was packed with helpless Christian refugees fleeing the Red Army of the Stalinist USSR. Dresden’s native Lutheran and Catholic children, dressed in their festive Saxon folk costumes, were aboard a train taking them home after Mardi Gras parties at different points in the far-flung city. https://russia-insider.com/en/history/78-years-ago-today-churchill-incinerated-100000-defenseless-civilians-dresden/ri22531