Dresden casualties and an Atom bomb target?

[VtwinVince]

I would go with Klaus on this one. Dresden was absolutely packed with refugees when the raid took place. Most of the victims came under the category of "Im Osten verschollen", disappeared in the east. I have talked with a survivor of the raid, whose entire family was incinerated. After hearing firsthand what happened, the low estimates of casualties become ludicrous and an affront to the memory of the dead. My father was in Cottbus during the raid, and the ground was shaking there during the raid on Dresden.