Penguin Books Ltd & Lipstadt , Day 7, January 20, 2000, pa

the Dresden air raids 1945 The DOCUMENTS ON THE DEATHROLL IN THE DRESDEN AIR RAIDS 1945 SO MANY innocents were killed in the 1945 British air raid on Dresden that the German authorities had to cremate the bodies on mass funeral pyres on the Altmarkt. Mr Irving was the first to publish these photographs in the west. When he produced one of them, enlarged to poster size, in Court, Defence Counsel Richard Rampton sneered, “So what!” MR RAMPTON: Can we forget Dresden for the moment, Mr Irving?

MR. IRVING: I can never forget Dresden. [Transcript, DJC Irving vs Penguin Books Ltd & Lipstadt , Day 7, January 20, 2000, page 170;