“I don’t rejoice in the 35,000 Germans killed there. Incidentally, I doubt that there were many Jews in that number; the good burghers of Dresden had just recently shipped the last of them off to Auschwitz.” That is almost right. Victor Klemperer, a professor at the city’s Technical University, was one of only 198 registered Jews in Dresden when the first Lancasters came plowing through the cloudless February sky. The rest had either escaped, committed suicide, or been sent to Auschwitz and other murder mills.
