The raid on Coventry had been avenged long before Dresden, my FRiend; the firebombing of Hamburg alone in July of 1943 killed more people than the British had lost during the entire Blitz.
“The raid on Coventry had been avenged long before Dresden, my FRiend; the firebombing of Hamburg alone in July of 1943 killed more people than the British had lost during the entire Blitz.”
I was thinking the same thing too.
The firebombing of Hamburg created significantly worse casualties and more damage.
Of course, the bombing of Hamburg in ‘43 was in the midst of the war and Dresden was near the end when Germany’s war capabilities were waning - so there’ll always be the eternal question of whether Dresden was necessary or not.