Dresden Quotes

“Götz Bergander, son of Dresden, eyewitness to its suffering, and the first objective historian of its destruction, summed up succinctly but tellingly:

What began as routine led to an inferno and left behind a signal. What seemed capable of achievement only on paper—the coming together of favorable circumstances for the attacks—was suddenly an accomplished fact.

But wasn’t that what the supporters of area bombing had always wanted? Too late came the question of whether they had really wanted it.

Or, as the painter Goya—also no stranger to horror—expressed it with even more economy: “The sleep of reason brings forth monsters.”
― Frederick Taylor, Dresden : Tuesday, 13 February, 1945

“This was the “raid which went horribly right”...”
― Frederick Taylor, Dresden : Tuesday, 13 February, 1945