The thousands of bodies had to be cremated after the air raid, in public, on Dresden’s Altmarkt square.[Original 1945 colour photo: Irving collection / the late Walter Hahn]
Download a free copy of David Irving’s Apocalypse 1945: the Destruction of Dresden (Adobe Acrobat Reader required).
How many died in Dresden? From Friedrich Reichert: Verbrannt bis zur Unkenntlichkeit (DZA Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft, published by Landeshauptstadt Dresden, November 1994) [in German]