Dunno where I read it, but aircrews that had to bail out near the city were thrown into the fires by vengeful Germans. I doubt that as the heat was too intense, but who knows?
There’s a paperback titled “Defeat in the East” by a German officer who was there. Lots of horrific stories of what the German civilians went through trying to get West. Many got to Dresden and thanked God they were finally safe - and then the bombers came.
“Defeat in the East”
written by Paul Carell???
One of the reasons for the disparity in the body counts of that raid over the years is that while the German authorities knew with some degree of accuracy which Germans had died, it was almost impossible to determine the identities of the refugees who were killed. (These were people, mind you, who had done nothing more criminal than crowd into a train station in the hope of boarding a train that would take them west.)