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In the closing days of World War II, the British firebombed the city of Dresden. Dresden had no war industries, and was the cultural soul of Germany, embodying everything that was good or edifying in German culture. The people of Dresden and the government of Germany had deliberately avoided locating anything of strategic value in Dresden to preserve it's value as world heritage of architecture and art from destruction. Because of it's status as a nonstrategic target many noncombatant refugees, women and children had taken shelter there. Great Britain committed as heinous an act of terrorism as has ever been perpetrated against a civilian population. The Germans even located prisoners of war there to protect the prisoners from bombings, The British killed many captive soldiers, most of them Americans. Kurt Vonnegut's description in "Slaughterhouse 5" is relatively factual.

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