Allies Quote by Julius Streicher

Our biggest catastrophe was that Dresden was destroyed in the war. But the message of the city is that wounds of war can heal,…

— Jan Vogler

“The destruction of Dresden was an overkill. It was done in February, 1945, when it was clear that Germany would lose the war. Russians…

— Josip Novakovich

When I look back on the townscapes now, they do seem to me to recall certain images of the destruction of Dresden during the…

— Gerhard Richter

It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the…

— Winston Churchill

The attack on Dresden, which was overflowing with refugees, on February 13th 1945 caused around 250,000 dead.

— Konrad Adenauer

“History was so quickly remade, and so successfully, that it can truly be said that the easterners did not feel then, and do not…

— Anna Funder

“While we were being bombed in Dresden sitting in a cellar with our arms over our heads in case the ceiling fell, one soldier…

— Kurt Vonnegut

There were almost 11,000 American soldiers killed in Germany in April of 1945, the last full month of the war. That's almost as many…

— Rick Atkinson

Everyone sees drama from his own perspective. My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.…

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

“The descent to barbarism had begun with Rotterdam. It ended with Dresden and then with Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Whatever moral differences had existed when…

— David McReynolds

In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association…

— Oliver Stone

The treatment of the Germans by the Allies was at least as bad as the shooting of those Jews. The bombing of cities with…

— Otto Ohlendorf