27 December 2006
Contemporary impact of the WW2 Allied bombing of Dresden
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In 1945, on 13 February, the bombing of the east German city of Dresden by the Allied forces began, almost totally destroying the heart of a beautiful Baroque city as well as so many of its inhabitants.
The historian Frederick Taylor tells Maria Zijlstra how terrible it was, but that it did have strategic military reason. And the German journalist Toralf Staud describes how the neo-Nazis operate in Dresden, using music to make nationalism cool for kids.
PLEASE NOTE: These interviews were first broadcast on The Book Show on February 13, 2006.
Further Information
website for the book Moderne Nazis
Publications
Title: Dresden: Tuesday 13 February 1945
Author: Frederick Taylor
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Title: Moderne Nazis
Author: Toralf Staud
Publisher: Kiepenheuer und Witsch Verlag
URL: http://www.moderne-nazis.de
Title: On the Natural History of Destruction
Author: W.G. Sebald, translated by Anthea Bell
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
first published in German as Luftkrieg und Literatur (Carl Hanser Verlag)
Title: Among the Dead Cities: Was the Allied bombing of civilians in WWII a necessity or a crime?
Author: A. C. Grayling
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Presenter
Ramona Koval
Producer
Maria Zijlstra
Story Researcher and Producer
Maria Zijlstra
