Real History looks at 1945 air raids The your main Dresden air raid index Updated Click arrow below to start the movie. You need QuickTime, a free download plug-in . In a speech at a dinner in Chicago
on July 31, 2009 David Irving speaks on the February 1945 Dresden death roll – he describes how intercepted messages of Dresden’s police chief ( see below ) justified his own 1963 book claim that 135,000 died in the firestorm. (In 2002, before these decoded messages were found, a British High Court judge described this as a falsification of history.) Victims were cremated on huge funeral pyres for days after the 1945 British raid . [Original colour photo by Fritz Hahn, taken on Feb 25, 1945: