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: copyright assigned to David Irving in all western countries in 1961] From David Irving “Apocalypse 1945: the Destruction of Dresden”. (Order this book)

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• Daily Telegraph: Oct 2, 2008: Dresden bombing death toll lower than thought – historical commission of German Government publishes report
• Mayor of Dresden protests at British plans to erect a London monument to RAF Bomber Command – the heroes who flew the Lancasters – but then, I guess there would be outrage in Tel Aviv if Germany now honored the men of Himmler’s Einsatzgruppen | Dresden’s 1945 mayor, and a decoded secret message: “100,000 still missing” after RAF fire-raid | Our Dresden gallery
• German mayor defends horrific British saturation bombing of his own city on 66th anniversary – it burned 100,000 citizens of Dresden alive | Naturally. Mayor of Dresden blames Hitler for 1945 Dresden holocaust, keeps job (German text of speech, pdf ) | Leftists form human chain to protest against march, support Dresden bombing | Ein wirklicher Holokaust Dresden: 13.2.1945 (German)

< Germany hoists huge banners smearing solemn protest march against Dresden bombing, calls it “Nazi”

• Op-Ed: Columnist Tom Friedman must apologize for slandering Israel – and Rabbi Schmuley takes a risk by saying that 250,000 Germans were killed in Dresden, 1945
• Sept 2010: Mayor of Dresden protests at British plans to erect a London monument to RAF Bomber Command: “100,000 still missing” after RAF obliterated Dresden | Our Dresden gallery
• More on Prof Richard “Skunky” Evans and Hanns Voigt
• Stephen Combe asks about the German official commission investigating the Dresden death roll
• David Irving finds a crucial decoded document on Dresden’s huge death roll | on which see this Russian documentary: pt. 1 | 2 | 3 | David Irving interviewed by rightwing National Zeitung on the decode which reveals true number of Dresden missing at 100,000 (4 MB pdf) | Interview 0.5 MB pdf, in German
• Daily Telegraph: “Nazis exaggerated Dresden death toll, German historians conclude” – “claimed that as many as 500,000 people died during the Allied bombing of Dresden” — This is a typical Goebbels trick: the German Government never stated 500,000, and for obvious reasons kept Dresden’s death-roll secret. The British decodes, not mentioned by these conformist, ass-licking German historians, show the figure of registered missing persons, i.e. dead, was 100,000 | Our dossier on the Dresden air raid | The Times – note that these “newspapers of record” made no attempt to contact Mr Irving before smearing him | BBC News also engages in this holocaust denial and manipulation | The Times’s otherwise unknown philosemite Oliver Kamm has a problem with Mr Irving — and with the Dresden deathtoll! | Ha’aretz, Israel
• Newly discovered decoding evidence shows that six weeks later Dresden’s Mayor reported that one hundred thousand names had been registered as “missing” (i.e. dead) after the 800-bomber raid by RAF Bomber Command
• German cops go house to house to arrest people involved with 2010 Dresden march
• Dresden: Massenproteste gegen Neonazi-Aufmarsch Seven thousand German Reds protest at Right Wing instrumentalising the 1945 Dresden holocaust: Politician lays memorial stone, but 135,000 death toll marked down to “25,000”
• Der Spiegel now suggests that the July 1943 death toll in Hamburg (48,000) was higher than Dresden’s – so those editors are safe from prosecution
• The Jerusalem Post on Dresden victims and German manipulation
• Real holocaust denial:German government claims Dresden bombing killed fewer than thought: The Allied firebombing in 1945 killed only 25,000 people, a special commission has found: so that’s all right then | our dossier on the Dresden atrocity
• David Irving: “Apocalypse 1945: the Destruction of Dresden” (free download) | order book
• Jan – Feb 1945: Some British documents leading up to the raid on Dresden
• Letter: Stephen Combe asks about the German official commission investigating the Dresden death roll
• Flashback: “The Allied air raid on Dresden on Feb. 13-14 killed 300,000 persons,” reported Stars & Stripes, May 5, 1945
• David Irving writes a letter to The Times, July 1966, on new documents on the Dresden death roll | An article in Dresdner Neues Nachrichten Jan 25, 2005, comments on this, but gets the wrong end of the stick | Mr Irving comments on the article
• David Irving, free download: The Destruction of Dresden [all editions]
• Göring’s ADC Bodenschatz and Bassenge talk in British captivity about … the Dresden air raid and compare it with concentration camp atrocity photographs
•  Movie: David Irving speaks on the Dresden death roll – how intercepted secret messages of Dresden’s police chief confirmed his 1963 book claim that 135,000 had died in the firestorm (9MB download)

 Now posted, an exlusive pictorial series: THE BRITISH FIRE RAID ON DRESDEN KILLED A HUNDRED THOUSAND CIVILIANS IN TWO HOURS

• Germany appoints “commission of historians” to investigate Dresden death toll 
• David Irving wrote a letter to The Times in 1996 correcting his own error on Dresden air raid casualties (in German) | His commentary now (English)
• Mr A Marques of Lisbon has arguments about the 1945 Dresden death toll
•  Our main Dresden Air Raid Index | a 12MB dossier (zip file)