Quote Originally Posted by argonaut11xx View Post
1250 heavy bombers, i'd suggest a big part of the mission was to destroy the spirit of the german people, and frankly it worked. It happened in Feb 1945,the war was basically over, as D-Day was June 1944.
All Dresden did was kill a lot of civilians for nothing. Today that would be called a war crime.

The war was basically over when the Germans lost the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944. If Hitler wasn't still in charge, the German generals likely would have surrendered soon after that.