70K views · 784 reactions | Seventy-five years ago, nearly 800 British and American bombers took off on their mission to Dresden. In 18 hours, the magnificent buildings of the ‘Florence of the Elbe’ were turned to rubble and reduced to ashes by a firestorm of unimaginable brutality. Some 25,000 people – most Dresdners, but also many refugees fleeing the advancing Soviet forces – died in the inferno. | Joël Stoppels Battlefield Tours | Facebook