COMMENTARY: The Feb. 13-15, 1945, firebombing of the eastern German city symbolizes the brutality of World War II.

Nazi Germany was the target of sustained attack by the Allies throughout the Second World War. But it was Adolf Hitler's refusal to admit defeat in the closing months of the conflict that led to ...

By midday on February 15, large-scale fires had spread, killing thousands of people and almost completely reducing the Old ...

Victor Klemperer was an eyewitness to the Dresden bombings at the end of World War II, on February 13 and 14, 1945. The renowned scholar wrote what became known as the most vivid description of the ...

German town of Bardenberg, where the outcome of a singular soldier’s sacrifice hung in the balance, depending on his comrades ...

The unexploded ordnance, discovered during a site renovation, were described as “practice bombs” that still carry a charge ...