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DRESDEN
THE DESTRUCTION OF DRESDEN
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APOCALYPSE 1945
The Destruction of Dresden
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FOCAL POINT
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THE DESTRUCTION OF DRESDEN
David Irving is the son of a Royal Navy commander. Educated at
Imperial College of Science & Technology and at University College
London, he subsequently spent a year in Germany working in a steel
mill and perfecting his fluency in the language. Among his thirty books
the best-known include Hitler’sWar, The Trail of the Fox: The Life of Field-
Marshal Rommel, Accident, the Death of General Sikorski, The Rise and Fall of
the Luftwaffe and Göring: a Biography. He has translated several books by
other authors. He lives in Grosvenor Square, London, and is the father
of five daughters.
he published his first English language book, The Destruction of
Dresden . Translated and published around the world, it became a best-
seller in many countries. The present volume, Apocalypse
1963
, revises
and updates that work on the basis of information which has become
available since
1945
1963
.
In
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L UFTWAFFE H OSPITAL
A IR Z ONE C OMMAND XVI
(
10
) D RESDEN A.
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G ENERAL -W EVER -S TRASSE .
I think it is February 13, 1945.
My darling, darling wife,
I doubt that this letter will ever reach you; these are probably the last words and
thoughts I shall ever write to you.
Apparently I was brought to Dresden earlier yesterday. Tonight there have been
two air-raids, one after another. Now everything around me and above me is on fire.
The hospital I’m in has been evacuated, and is empty. Outside I can hear a fire-storm
raging, like the one in Hamburg. The whole building has been abandoned long ago. Eve-
rybody ran off when it caught fire. I am curious to know how many of them will survive,
and where they’ve gone to. Everything around my bed is on fire; smoke and sparks are
making breathing almost impossible.
It is peaceful here in the cellar. There is one candle giving out a little light. It is going
to get very hot in here too. At the moment, I am just lying here in the cellar which is
still cool, smoking my last rescued cigarette, and thinking of all the things one ought
to think of in ones last minutes alive. There’s nothing I can do but wait, and write these
words…
Perhaps you will then sense somehow, even if this letter does not reach you and
you find yourself alone, that my last conscious thoughts were with you and my mother.
Yours, V.
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THE DESTRUCTION OF DRESDEN
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Internet edition Copyright © Focal Point, London
1999
http://www.fpp.co.uk/bookchapters/Dresden
All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be
made without written permission. Copies may be downloaded from our website for
research purposes only. No part of this publication may be commercially reproduced,
copied, or transmitted save with written permission in accordance with the provi-
sions of the Copyright Act
1956
The Destruction of Dresden was first published in Great Britain by William Kimber &
Co. Ltd
1963
, in a revised and updated edition in
1971
by Corgi Books Ltd, and by
Papermac, a division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd, in
1985
. The present work Apoca-
lypse
1945
has been thoroughly revised and expanded on the basis of materials avail-
. Source notes are still in draft form. Researchers are advised that
figures for the final deathroll in Dresden still vary widely, and may be lower than this
author originally stated.
1963
Printed edition published
1995
by F OCAL P OINT P UBLICATIONS ,
81
Duke Street, Lon-
don W
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Irving, David John Cawdell
Apocalypse
1945
. The Destruction of Dresden
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. World War,
1939
–
1945
– Aerial operations
2
. Dresden (Germany) – Bombardment,
1945
ISBN
0
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958
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76021
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Copyright © Focal Point, London
(as amended). Any person who does any unauthor-
ised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil
claims for damages.
able since
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