The bombing of Dresden by the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force between 13 and 15 February 1945 remains a controversial Allied action of the Western European theatre of war.

He was buried in London, but 18 years later his remains were transferred to the family vault in Dresden.

Churchill subsequently distanced himself from the bombing writing that " the destruction of Dresden remains a serious query against the conduct of Allied Bombing ".

It lies at the crossroads of major international routes linking Dresden with Kiev, and Gdańsk with Budapest.

Dresden in the 20th century was a major communications hub and manufacturing center, as well as a leading European centre of art, classical music, culture and science until its complete destruction on 13 February 1945.

After the Second World War, Dresden became a major industrial centre in the German Democratic Republic ( former East Germany ) with a great deal of research infrastructure.

* A major fire breaks out in Dresden.

Zeiss Ikon represented a significant part of the production along with dozens of other brands and factories, and also had major works at Dresden.

He established the Saxon capital of Dresden as a major cultural centre, attracting artists from across Europe to his court.

In accordance with the spirit of the baroque age, Augustus invested heavily in the representative splendor of Dresden Castle, his major residence, to advertise his wealth and power.

With strict building regulations, major urban development plans, and a certain feeling for art, the king began to transform Dresden into a renowned cultural center with one of Germany ’ s finest art collections, though most of the city's famous sights and landmarks were completed during the reign of his son Augustus III.

In 1983, he began using Christian motifs in much of his artwork, and completed the major composition " Dinner in Dresden "/ " Nachtessen in Dresden ".

In 1995 it received the status of a major town inside the rural district ( große Kreisstadt ); when the rural district of Dresden ( Dresden-Land ) was dissolved, Radebeul became part of the district of Meißen.

He also won four major tournaments in succession: Breslau 1889, Manchester 1890, Dresden 1892, and Leipzig 1894.

In Dresden alone, it reached its 100th performance in 1873 and 200th in 1908 and it was regularly performed throughout the 19th century in major opera houses throughout Europe and beyond, including those in America and England in 1878 / 9.

From the late 18th century onwards, cities like Dresden, Munich, Weimar and Berlin were major stops on a European Grand tour.

Guest engagements saw Berglund conducting all the major North American and European orchestras, such as the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden Staatskapelle, the St Petersburg and Moscow Philharmonics, the Leipzig Gewandhaus and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestras.

Beginning in June 1930, five new V-16s participated in a promotional tour of major European cities including Paris, Antwerp, Brussels, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Berlin, Cologne, Dresden, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Münich, Nüremberg, Vienna ( where they won prizes ), Berne, Geneva, Lausanne, Zürich, Madrid, San Sebastian, La Baule and Angers.

In the end, 40 % of the Kingdom, including the historically significant Wittenberg, home of the Protestant Reformation, was annexed by Prussia, but Frederick Augustus was restored to the throne in the remainder of his kingdom, which still included the major cities of Dresden and Leipzig.

Although less central to modern conflict, vast areas of 20th century cities such as Warsaw, Dresden, Coventry, London and Berlin were left in ruins following World War II, and a number of major cities around the world – such as Beirut, Kabul, Sarajevo, Grozny and Baghdad – have been partially or completely ruined in recent years as a result of more localised warfare.

Dresden, because of its location in a valley, was one of the few areas of East Germany ( and the only major city in the country ) that could not receive the broadcast of West Germany's Das Erste from either Ochsenkopf or West Berlin, despite the best efforts of West German broadcasters to cover the whole of the East.

Now he is performing as a freelancer singing major lyric tenor parts in opera houses as: Teatro alla Scala Milan, Opéra Bastille Paris, Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Bayreuther Festspiele, Semperoper Dresden, Opernhaus Zürich.

He was also in charge of major works at Dresden Castle, Pillnitz Castle and he designed the Vineyard Church ( Weinbergkirche ) in Pillnitz.

The 1926 Rheinhalle ( today: Tonhalle Düsseldorf ) in Düsseldorf was his first major cultural project, followed by the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden.

Dresden has a long history as the capital and royal residence for the Electors and Kings of Saxony, who for centuries furnished the city with cultural and artistic splendour.

Since the German reunification in 1990, Dresden has regained importance as one of the cultural, educational, political and economic centres of Germany.

The United Nations ' cultural organization UNESCO declared the Dresden Elbe Valley to be a World Heritage Site in 2004.

The Dresden Elbe Valley was an internationally recognised site of cultural significance by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee for five years.

The Dresden Elbe Valley is a former world heritage site which is focused on the conservation of the cultural landscape in Dresden.

Critics of the bombing argue that Dresden — sometimes referred to as " Florence on the Elbe " ( Elbflorenz )— was a cultural landmark of little or no military significance, and that the attacks were indiscriminate area bombing and not proportionate to the commensurate military gains.

He loved fine arts and architecture, and he had beautiful palaces built in Dresden, a city that became renowned for extraordinary cultural brilliance.

He has also created an opera ( Orpheus and Eurydike, 1992 ) and a site-specific installation of Wagner's Parsifal, several documentary films and dance videos, and produced public art projects with artists or cultural workers in Houston, Chicago, Havana, Ljubljana, Eisenhüttenstadt, Dresden, and Göttelborn.

Before the events of May 1849, Dresden was already known as a cultural centre for liberals and democrats ; the anarchist Dresdner Zeitung newspaper was partly edited by the music director Karl August Röckel and contained articles by Mikhail Bakunin, who came to Dresden in March 1849.

" The 18th-and 19th-century cultural landscape of Dresden Elbe Valley .. features low meadows, and is crowned by the Pillnitz Palace and the centre of Dresden with its numerous monuments and parks from the 16th to 20th centuries.

Dresden, a university city, has for a long time had a culture of locally organized street parties and other cultural artistic events.

She played an important role in the social and cultural life of Dresden and Paris, and, after 1870, Vienna.

Dresden was a centre of the German Revolutions in 1848 with the May Uprising, which cost human lives and damaged the historic town of Dresden.

Dresden was a centre of European modern art until 1933.

Dresden, 1945 — over ninety percent of the city centre was destroyed.

The bombing raid on Dresden destroyed almost all of the ancient centre of the city in three waves of attacks.

In February 1945, as Soviet forces closed in on the German city of Dresden, which had been largely spared of heavy bombing raids due to its historic status, they asked for attacks to be made on the extensive transport links around the population centre.

Moritzburg is a municipality in the district of Meißen in Saxony, Germany, between Meißen as early centre of Saxony and the today's capital Dresden.

* February 13-February 15-The bombing of Dresden by the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force destroys 13 square miles ( 34 km² ) of the city, and causes a firestorm that consumes the city centre.

It is however – so far – the only Elbe crossing in Dresden east of the city centre up to the neighboring town of Pirna.

Over the centuries it has developed into a huge event with 250 stands, taking up a large part of Dresden city centre and lasting throughout the Advent period.

It is located in Klotzsche, a district of Dresden north of the city centre.

It is served by trains on line S2 of the Dresden S-Bahn, which provide a half-hourly link to Dresden-Neustadt and Dresden Hauptbahnhof stations in the centre of Dresden, with journey times of 13 and 23 minutes respectively.

Dresden Airport is situated some north of the centre of Dresden.

Blasewitz is a larger borough ( Ortsamtsbereich ) of Dresden, Germany in the city's eastern centre on the Elbe river.

He adorned Dresden, which under him became the musical centre of Germany ; welcoming foreign musicians and others he gathered around him a large and splendid court, and his capital was the constant scene of musical and other festivals.

It is situated 14 km west of Dresden ( centre ).