Estimate of the number of victims in the GDR After Germany's surrender on May 8, 1945, Dresden became part of the Soviet occupation zone, which became the communist German Democratic Republic (GDR ...

4,000 bombs dropped on Dresden This was the second time the bridge, originally built in 1895, had been partially destroyed. The German army purposely blew it up in May 1945 to halt the Soviet advance.

A combination photo shows the statue of German religious reformer Martin ... or town-hall tower, overlooking Dresden in 1945, left, and on February 12, 2015, overlooking a parking lot.

Germany will hold a general election on 23 ... Victor Gregg, a British prisoner of war in Dresden in 1945 who lived through the Allied bombings of the city, described the onset of the attack ...