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- Academy of Fine Arts (Dresden)
- Academy of Fine Arts (Vienna)
- accuracy of bombing raids; see also bomb aimers; marker flares; target indicators
- Ackermann, Gerhard
- aerial photography
- aimers see bomb aimers
- Altmarkt (Dresden); wartime reservoirs
- Altstadt (Dresden); during air raids of; February 1945; destruction and fires; aftermath of raids; post-war; see also Frauenkirche; Kreuzkirche
- aluminium works
- American servicemen in Britain
- animals see pets; zoo animals
- anti-aircraft operations
- anti-Semitism: pre-Nazi era Germany; escalation under Nazis; introduction of anti-Semitic laws; and the arts; see also Jews
- Ardennes offensive see Bulge, Battle of the
- Arnhem: battle of (1944); Allied capture
- Arnhold family
- Arnold-Foster, Mark
- Arnsdorf
- artistic life
- Ascherson, Neal
- asphyxiation, deaths by
- Assyrians
- atomic and nuclear weapons: development of; use of
- Auber, Daniel, Fra Diavolo
- Auerbach, Anita
- Augustus II ‘the Strong’, Elector of Saxony; relics
- Auschwitz concentration camp
- Avro Lancaster see Lancaster (bomber aircraft)
- B-17 (bomber aircraft)
- B-24 (bomber aircraft)
- B-29 (bomber aircraft)
- Bach, Johann Sebastian
- Baedeker Raids
- Bähr, George
- Bakunin, Mikhail
- Baldwin, Stanley (later 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley)
- ball-bearing factories
- banking
- Barkhausen, Heinrich
- Bath; bombing of
- Bayreuth festival
- BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation); propaganda unit
- Beethoven, Ludwig van; Ninth Symphony
- Bell, George, Bishop of Chichester
- Bellotto, Bernardo; ‘Dresden from the Right Bank of the Elbe’
- bells, church
- Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
- Berger, Günter
- Berlin: Olympic Games (1936); Allied bombing raids; defensive plans against Soviet invasion; post-war division; see also Thunderclap, Operation
- Bevan, Aneurin
- Bielss, Winfried: family background; character and hobbies; wartime life in Dresden; in Hitler Youth; during day of 13 February 1945; during approach of Allied bombers; in cellar during first wave of bombing; emergence from shelter and observation of destruction and fires; during second wave of bombing; on morning of February; during third wave of bombing; in aftermath of raids
- Billy, Method Cyril (‘Brother Billy’)
- Bismarck, Otto von
- Blackman, Frank
- blackout regulations
- Blank, Margarete
- Bletchley Park (Government Code and Cypher School)
- Bleyl, Fritz
- blindness and eye-damage caused by bombing raids
- Blitz (German bombing of Britain)
- ‘Blockbuster’ bombs
- Bloxham, Donald
- ‘Bob Gerry Troupe’ (circus act)
- Bohemia, Napoleonic Wars
- Bohemia and Moravia, Protectorate of; see also Prague
- Böhme KG (toolmaking company)
- Böhme, Kurt
- Bolshevik Revolution (1917)
- bomb aimers
- Bomber Command (Royal Air Force): casualty totals and survival rates; characteristics, operations and daily life of crews; development of bombing strategies; headquarters; planning and preparation for Dresden raids; post-war reputation; recruitment and training
- Bombing Restriction Committee
- Bonn, bombing of
- Böttger, Johann Friedrich
- Bottomley, Sir Norman
- ‘bouncing bomb’
- Bowlby, Chris
- Brabner, Rupert
- Bremen; bombing of
- Breslau
- brewing and breweries
- Britain, Battle of (1940–41)
- Brittain, Vera; Seed of Chaos
- Brücke, Die (artists’ group)
- Brueghel, Jan the Elder
- Buchenwald concentration camp
- Bulge, Battle of the (Ardennes offensive; 1944–45)
- Bürgel, Norbert
- burial and cremation of dead
- Burke, Bill
- Bury St Edmunds; Angel Hotel; library
- Busch, Fritz
- buses
- Byzantine Empire
- Cabinet des Dr Caligari, Das (film)
- Cambridge
- Cambridge University
- cameras: manufacture of; use in aircraft; see also photography
- Canterbury, bombing of
- Cappel, Friedrich and Louise
- casualty totals: British civilians; concentration camp victims; German civilians; RAF Bomber Command crews; USAAF crews
- Catholic cathedral (Dresden); bells; destruction of; repair and rebuilding of
- Chamberlain, Neville
- Chemnitz; bombing of
- Cherwell, Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount
- children (British)
- children (German): wartime life in Dresden; military roles in anti-aircraft operations; during air raids of; February 1945; in aftermath of raids; post-war; see also Hitler Youth; League of German Girls; schools and schooling
- choir see Kreuzchor
- ‘Christmas trees’ (marker flares)
- Churchill, Sir Winston: family background; early views on future weaponry; wartime prime minister; and development of bombing campaign against German cities; at Yalta Conference; reaction to Dresden raids and questioning of area bombing strategy; post-war life
- cinema and film
- circuses
- Clemens, Hans
- coal supplies
- codebreaking
- Coeburn (Virginia)
- Cologne, bombing of
- Combined Strategic Targets Committee
- combustible weapons, development of
- commemoration of Dresden raids
- communists, German: wartime; post-war
- concentration camps: public awareness of in Germany; discovered by Allies; return of prisoners to Dresden; see also Auschwitz; Bergen-Belsen; Buchenwald; Dachau; Flossenbürg; Neuengamme; Ravensbrück; Theresienstadt
- Constantine Pogonatus, Byzantine Emperor
- Constantinople, Siege of (717)
- ‘Cookie’ bombs
- Cook’s Tours
- Cosel, Anna Constantia von Brockdorff, Countess of
- Courtney, Dame Kathleen
- Coventry: bombing of; twinned with Dresden
- Cowan, Howard
- cowboys and Wild West iconography
- Cox, Jane (later Vonnegut)
- cremation and burial of dead
- ‘crooked music’ (Schräge Musik; Luftwaffe fighter aircraft technique)
- Croydon
- Czechoslovakia: bombing raids; expulsion of Sudeten Germans; Jewish population; resistance groups; see also Bohemia; Prague
- Dachau concentration camp
- Dadaism
- Dahl, Johan Christian, ‘View of Dresden at Full Moon’
- Daily Mail
- Daily Mirror
- Daily Record (English-language Dresden newspaper)
- Daily Telegraph
- ‘dambuster’ raids
- Danos, Mischka: background and early life; views and beliefs; post at Dresden Technical University; during day and evening of 13 February 1945; during first wave of bombing; emergence from shelter and observation of destruction and fires; during second wave of bombing; on morning of 14 February; in aftermath of raids
- Dartmouth, William Legge, 2nd Earl of
- de Waal, Edmund
- ‘de-housing’ (bombing raid objective)
- de Jong, Pia
- death toll see casualty totals
- Deenethorpe (Northamptonshire), RAF base
- ‘degenerate art’
- dental hygiene
- dentistry
- deserters (German)
- Dietrich, Hertha
- Dippoldiswalde
- disabled people, forced sterilization of
- Dix, Otto
- Dönitz, Karl
- Dortmund, bombing of
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Double Indemnity (film)
- Douhet, Giulio, The Command of the Air
- Dowding, Hugh, 1st Baron
- ‘dragon twists’ see fire tornadoes
- Dresden (character & features): air-raid shelters; air-raid warning systems; anglophone community; anti-aircraft operations; artistic life; banking and insurance companies; breweries; bridges; cemeteries; comparisons with other cities; cultural reputation; English-language usage; hospitals; hotels; housing; hygiene and cleanliness; as ‘jewel box’; landscape and surroundings; literary life; location; manufacturing industry; mayors see Kluge, Rudolf; Nieland, Hans; musical life; parks; popular entertainment; population total; porcelain industry; public transport see buses; railways; trams; religious life; restaurants and cafés; schools; scientific life; shops; theatres and theatrical life; time zone; tourists and international visitors; trees and gardens; twinned with Coventry; universities; vineyards
- Dresden (history & development): 17th century; 18th century; 19th century; early 20th century; 1930s and early 1940s; autumn and winter of 1944–45; first air raids; the day and evening of 13 February 1945; sounding of air-raid sirens and taking to shelters; approach of Allied bombers; dropping of marker flares and target indicators; first bombing wave; sounding of all-clear sirens; emergence from shelters and observation of destruction; attempts to control fires; immediate physical and mental effects on survivors; second wave of bombing; the morning of 14 February; third wave of bombing; aftermath of raids; efforts to restore control and normality; burial and cremation of dead; further American bombing raid in March 1945; defences against approaching Allied armies; Red Army enters; under Soviet control; in German Democratic Republic; reconstruction; post-reunification
- Dresden (landmarks & places): abattoir; Academy of Fine Arts; Alaunstrasse; Albert Bridge; Albertinum (art museum); Alsberg/Möbius (shop); Altmarkt see under Altmarkt; Altstadt see under Altstadt; Augustus Bridge; Bautzner Strasse; Blue Wonder (Loschwitz) bridge; Böhme (department store); Bohnert (philately shop); Brühl’s Terrace; Carolabrücke; castle (Schloss/Royal Palace); cathedral see under Catholic cathedral; central railway station; Central Theatre; cigarette factory; Continental Hotel; courthouse; Deaconess Institute (hospital); Dölzschen; Dresden Heath; Engelmann (philately shop); Felsenkeller brewery; Frauenkirche see under Frauenkirche; Friedrichstadt see under Friedrichstadt; Goehle-Werk (manufacturing plant); Gohlis; Gorbitz; Great Garden park; Heidehof Hotel; Hygiene Museum; Jägerstrasse; Japanese Palace; Jewish cemetery; Johannstadt see under Johannstadt; Katharinenstrasse; Klotzsche aerodrome; Kreuzkirche see under Kreuzkirche; Kreuzschule see under Kreuzschule; Loschwitz (Blue Wonder) bridge; Lothringerstrasse; malt syrup factory; Mathilde (prison); Müller Gelinek school; Museum of Military History; Neumarkt; Neustadt see under Neustadt; Old Masters Picture Gallery; Ostragehege (sports stadium); Palace of Culture; Pfunds Molkerei (dairy shop); Pieschen; Plauen; police headquarters; Prager Strasse; Radebeul; Rathaus; Renner (department store); Russian Orthodox church; Sachsenplatz; Sanger Strasse; Schloss Eckberg; Schlossplatz; Schnorrstrasse; Seidel und Naumann factory; Semper Opera House; Semper Synagogue; Striesener Plaza; Striesener Strasse; Summer Palace; Taschenberg Palace; Taschenberg Square; Technical University; Universum Kino; Villa Stockhausen; Vitzthum-Gymnasium (school); Waldschlösschen; White Bow (restaurant); Wilsdruffer Strasse; Zeiss Ikon works; Zeughausstrasse; Zittauer Strasse; zoo; Zwinger Palace see under Zwinger Palace; Zwingergarten
- Dresden Opera Company, London tour (1936)
- Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra
- Dresden Technical University
- Dresden Trust (British charity)
- Dresdner Bank
- Dundee
- Düsseldorf, bombing of
- Dyson, Freeman
- D-Day (Allied invasion of Europe; 1944)
- Eaker, Ira
- earthquakes
- East Germany see German Democratic Republic
- Eder dam, bombing of
- Eighth Air Force (USAAF)
- Eisenach
- Eisenhower, Dwight D.
- Elbe Line (defensive front)
- electrical engineering
- electricity supplies
- ‘electronic blankets’ (radar countermeasure)
- Eliot, T. S.
- Elizabeth, Queen Mother
- Ellgering, Theodor
- Elsner, Dieter
- Elsner, Ursula
- Enabling Act (Germany; 1933)
- Erfurt
- Erler, Georg: pre-war life; art collections; local air-raid warden; on day of 13 February 1945; in cellar during first wave of bombing; emergence from shelter and observation of destruction and fires; inspection of neighbourhood; during second wave of bombing; reunited with wife; on morning of 14 February; during third wave of bombing; reunited with family in north
- Erler, Marielein: pre-war life; art collections; on day of 13 February 1945; in cellar during first wave of bombing; emergence from shelter and observation of destruction and fires; locates friends and neighbours; during second wave of bombing; reunited with husband; on morning of 14 February; during third wave of bombing; injured by shrapnel; treatment at hospital in Kreischa; returns to survey damage in Dresden; leaves city; travels north; reunited with family; dictates account of bombing
- Eschdorf
- Essen, bombing of
- eugenics
- executions, judicial
- Exeter
- expressionism see German expressionism
- eye-damage caused by bombing raids
- Fasching (Shrove Tuesday) festivals
- Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)
- Felixmüller, Conrad
- Felsenkeller (brewery company); tunnels used as air-raid shelters
- Fenwick, Gordon
- festivals
- Feydt, Sebastian
- Fiedler, Morton
- Fighter Command (Royal Air Force)
- film see cinema and film
- fire tornadoes
- First World War; artists’ responses; bombing raids; Royal Flying Corps; ‘shell shock’
- Fitzpatrick, Sheila
- Fleischer-Gute, Erna
- Flensburg
- flight engineers (in bomber aircraft), role and operations
- Florence, Dresden compared with
- Flossenbürg concentration camp
- Fluman, Willmore
- Flying Fortress (bomber aircraft)
- folklore and legend, German
- food supplies: Britain; Germany
- forced labour
- Fra Diavolo (opera)
- Frank, Georg
- Frankfurt; bombing of
- Frankland, Noble, The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany, 1939–1945
- Frauenkirche (Dresden); bells; during air raids; destruction of; rebuilding of
- Frederick Augustus I, Elector of Saxony see Augustus II ‘the Strong’, Elector of Saxony
- Frederick Augustus II, King of Saxony
- Frederick Augustus III, King of Saxony
- Freiheitskampf, Der (newspaper)
- Friedrich, Caspar David
- Friedrich, Jörg, The Fire
- Friedrichstadt (Dresden); hospital; marshalling yards
- Frölich, Elsa
- Fromme, Albert: pre-war life; character; family; surgeon at Friedrichstadt hospital; wartime life in Dresden; during evening of 13 February 1945; reaction to air-raid sirens; in cellar during first wave of bombing; emergence from shelter and observation of destruction and fires; reaches hospital; treatment of survivors at hospital; destruction of home; tours clinics and field hospitals in surrounding areas; post-war life
- Fromme, Friedrich-Carl
- Fuchs, James R.
- Fuchs, Klaus
- fuel supplies: Allied attacks on; shortages and rationing; see also coal; gas; oil
- Fulbeck (Lincolnshire)
- Fussell, Paul
- gas supplies
- gas warfare
- GDR see German Democratic Republic
- Gee navigation system
- Gelsenkirchen
- German Democratic Republic (GDR; East Germany); fall of
- German expressionism
- German Revolution (1918–19)
- Głogów
- Glyndebourne Festival Opera
- Goch
- Goebbels, Joseph: propaganda minister; visits Dresden (1934); propaganda following Dresden raids
- Goldberg, Emanuel
- Gomorrah, Operation see Hamburg, bombing of
- Goring-on-Thames
- Gotha
- Government Code and Cypher School (Bletchley Park)
- Grafton Underwood (Northamptonshire)
- Grant Macdonald (silversmiths)
- Grayling, A. C., Among the Dead Cities
- Great Fire of London (1666)
- Great Kanto Earthquake (Japan; 1923)
- Great War see First World War
- Greek fire (incendiary weapon)
- Gregg, Victor
- Griebel, Matthias
- Griebel, Otto: interests and views; artistic career; Nazis’ reaction to works; personal life; life in wartime Dresden; during evening of 13 February 1945; in cellar during first wave of bombing; emergence from shelter and observation of destruction and fires; attempts to return to family apartment; destruction of studio; reunited with family after raids; postwar life; death; Ich war ein Mann der Strasse (memoir); ‘The Naked Whore’
- Grierson, Colin McKay
- Guernica, bombing of (1937)
- guillotine, use in judicial executions
- gunners (in bomber aircraft), role and operations
- gunpowder
- H2S navigation system
- Haberstock, Karl
- Hall, Clarissa (later Jerome)
- Halle
- Hamburg; bombing of
- Hanover, bombing of
- Harris, Sir Arthur: appearance and character; early life and career; views and beliefs; personal life; Air Chief Marshal and head of Bomber Command; development of bombing campaign strategy; planning for Dresden raid; campaigns for great recognition of Bomber Command’s achievements; defence of area bombing campaigns; publication of memoirs; post-war life and reputation; death; statue; war crime accusations
- Harris, Therese, Lady
- Hartinger, Josef
- Haufe, Dieter
- Hay, Leslie ‘Will’
- Heidelberg University
- ‘Heil Hitler’ (Nazi salute)
- Hellerberge
- Herder, Johann Gottfried
- Hermann, Matthias
- High Wycombe, Bomber Command headquarters
- Hille, Margot: apprentice brewery worker; wartime life; family; during day of 13 February 1945; in air-raid shelter during first wave of bombing; emergence from shelter and observation of destruction; during second wave of bombing; on morning of 14 February; during third wave of bombing; in aftermath of raids; escapes from Red Army soldiers
- Hiroshima, atomic bombing of
- Hitchcock, Sir Alfred, Vertigo
- Hitler, Adolf: rise to power; Gauleiter Mutschmann’s relations with; visits Dresden (1934); intercession in Spanish Civil War; Kristallnacht (1938); orders bombardment of Britain; views on art and music; taste for porcelain; death
- Hitler Youth
- Hochhuth, Rolf, Soldiers
- Hoffmann, E. T. A.; ‘The Automata’; ‘The Sandman’
- Hofmannsthal, Hugo von
- Holbrook, Howard
- Honiton (Devon)
- ‘Horst Wessel Song’ (Nazi Party anthem)
- Howard-Williams, Ernest
- humour and jokes
- hunting
- Huxley, Aldous, Ends and Means
- hygiene and cleanliness; Hygiene Exhibition (1911)
- Ilford (Essex)
- In flagranti (film)
- incendiary weapons, development of
- Indianapolis
- inflation
- Innsbruck
- ‘Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain’ (pamphlet)
- intelligence information
- Inter-Ministerial Committee on Bomb Damage
- International Congress of Photography (1931)
- Iraq
- Irons, Harry
- Irving, David
- Irving, Washington
- Isakowitz family
- Isakowitz, Erich
- Isakowitz, Hannelore
- Italian campaigns
- Japan; American bombing raids; attack on Pearl Harbor (1941); Great Kanto Earthquake (1923); see also Hiroshima; Nagasaki
- jazz music
- Jerome, Clara (née Clarissa Hall)
- Jews: 19th- and early-20th-century Jewish population in Dresden; assimilation; pre-Nazi anti-Semitism; escalation of anti-Semitism under Nazis; boycotting of Jewish businesses; barred and expelled from professions; introduction of anti-Semitic laws; emigrations; expropriation of property and businesses; evicted from homes; Judenhäuser (apartment buildings); violent attacks on shops and businesses; destruction of synagogues; forced labour; deportations to concentration camps; exterminations; remaining Jewish population in Dresden in 1945; during air raids of February 1945; in aftermath of raids; under Soviet control of Dresden; see also anti-Semitism
- Joad, C. E. M.
- Johannstadt (Dresden); hospital
- jokes and humour
- Judenhäuser (apartment buildings)
- Kassel
- Kästner, Erich
- Kent, Prince Edward, Duke of
- Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig
- Klemperer, Eva: career; settles in Dresden with husband; life in Nazi and wartime Dresden; evicted from home; during day of 13 February 1945; in cellar during first wave of bombing; emergence from shelter and observation of destruction and fires; during second wave of bombing; on morning of 14 February; in aftermath of raids; leaves Dresden; journeying from town to town; returns to Dresden after VE Day; post-war life; death
- Klemperer, Hadwig
- Klemperer, Victor: background and early life; character, beliefs and views; First World War service; settles in Dresden; academic career and reputation; life in Nazi and wartime Dresden; removal from university post; evicted from home; forced labour; during day of 13 February 1945; in cellar during first wave of bombing; emergence from shelter and observation of destruction and fires; during second wave of bombing; on morning of 14 February; in aftermath of raids; leaves Dresden; journeying from town to town; returns to Dresden after VE Day; during first weeks of Soviet control; post-war life; death
- Kleve
- Klotzsche aerodrome
- Kluge, Rudolf
- Köhler, Annemarie
- Konev, Ivan
- Kreischa; sanatorium
- Kreuzkirche (Dresden); bells; fire and destruction of; repair and rebuilding of
- Kreuzschule (Dresden); choir (Kreuzchor)
- Kristallnacht (November 1938)
- lacemaking
- Lancaster (bomber aircraft)
- Landry, Robert
- Latvia
- Lauta
- Lavenham (Suffolk)
- League of German Girls
- Leipzig; bombing of
- LeMay, Curtis
- Liddell Hart, Sir Basil
- Liebmann, Walter
- Limburg
- Lingner, Karl August
- Linz
- Littmann, Max
- Lodge, David
- Loge, Operation (German bombing offensive on Britain)
- London: Great Fire of (1666); First World War bombing of; Blitz (1940–41); American servicemen in; V-weapon attacks on
- looters; execution of
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (New Mexico)
- Lovett, Robert
- Lübeck, bombing of
- Luhm, Lothar Rolf
- Lüneburg
- Lunghi, Hugh
- Lupinek, Wenzel
- Lützkendorf
- Magdeburg, bombing of
- malt syrup production
- Manchester
- Manchester Guardian (newspaper)
- Mann, Thomas; Buddenbrooks; Doctor Faustus
- Mannheim; bombing of
- Margerison, Russell
- Marham (Norfolk), RAF base
- marionettes see puppetry
- marker flares
- Märklin (model train manufacturer)
- Mass Observation project
- Masur, Kurt
- Matter of Life and Death, A (film)
- Mauersberger, Rudolf: appearance and character; choirmaster of Kreuzchor; during bombing raids; in aftermath of raids; post-war life; Dresdner Requiem
- May, Karl
- Mazzaferro, Francesco
- Meissen
- Meissen porcelain
- Mendlesham (Suffolk)
- mental health: Allied aircrews; German civilians
- Messerschmitt fighter aircraft
- Michigan; wildfires
- micro-photography
- Miller, Glenn
- misremembering of events during air raids
- modernism
- Möhne dam, bombing of
- Mont Blanc
- Montgomery (Alabama), Army Air Corps Tactical School
- ‘moral fibre’ policy (Royal Air Force)
- Morison, Frank
- Mormons
- Morse code
- Moscow, Napoleonic Wars
- Mosquito (combat aircraft)
- mouthwash, manufacture of
- Mühlberg, prisoner-of-war camp
- Munich; bombing of; Degenerate Art Exhibition (1937)
- Munich-Allach (porcelain manufacturer)
- musical life; see also opera
- Mussolini, Benito
- Mutschmann, Martin: appearance and character; early life and career; interests and hobbies; views and beliefs; personal life; relations with Hitler; Gauleiter of Saxony; response to first air raids on Dresden; in private shelter during air raids of; February 1945; in aftermath of raids; assumes full mayoral authority for Dresden; orders defence of city against advancing Allied armies; flees Dresden; arrest, imprisonment and execution
- Mutschmann, Minna (née Popp)
- Nagasaki, atomic bombing of
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French
- Napoleonic Wars
- navigation systems, in bomber aircraft
- navigators, role and operations
- Nelson, Harold R.
- Netherlands
- Neue Sachlichkeit (art movement)
- Neuengamme concentration camp
- Neugebauer, Alfred
- Neustadt (Dresden); railway station; during air raids of; February 1945; destruction and fires; aftermath of raids; post-war; see also Sarrasani circus
- newspaper reporting of Dresden raids
- Nicolson, Sir Harold
- Nieland, Hans
- Niven, David
- Nolde, Emil
- Normandy landings (1944)
- North, Frederick, Lord
- nuclear weapons see atomic and nuclear weapons
- Nuremberg, bombing of
- Nuremberg Laws (1935)
- Nuremberg trials
- Observer (newspaper)
- Oder, River, Red Army crosses
- Odol mouthwash
- oil refineries: Allied attacks on; strategy for targeting
- Olympic Games (Berlin; 1936)
- opera
- opponents and critics of Allied area bombing campaigns
- optical instruments, manufacture of
- Osram (lighting company)
- Osterfeld
- Oxford University
- Palestine: bombing of; Jewish emigration to
- Park, Sir Keith
- Pathfinder crews
- Patz, Dieter
- Pearl Harbor, Japanese attack on (1941)
- Peshtigo (Wisconsin), wildfire (1871)
- pets, Jews prohibited from keeping
- Petzal, Monica
- Pforzheim; bombing of
- philately
- phosphorus
- photography; aerial; see also cameras
- Piła (Schneidemühl)
- pilots, role and operations
- Pirna
- Pittsburgh
- Plauen (Dresden suburb)
- Plauen (Saxony)
- poetry
- Poland
- Pomerania
- Poole, Otis
- Poppe, Horst
- porcelain industry
- Portal, Sir Charles (later 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford)
- Posen
- Posse, Hans
- postal services
- Powell, Michael, A Matter of Life and Death
- Prague; bombing of; railways
- prairie fires
- Pressburger, Emeric, A Matter of Life and Death
- prisoners of war (Allied)
- psychological problems: Allied aircrews; German civilians
- puppetry
- Putin, Lyudmila
- Putin, Vladimir
- quantum physics
- Querner, Curt
- radar; counter-measures
- Radeberger (brewery company)
- radio, technological developments
- radio broadcasts: Allied; German
- radiotherapy
- RAF see Royal Air Force
- railways; Allied attacks on; marshalling yards; stations
- Ravensbrück concentration camp
- Reading (Berkshire)
- Red Army: advance on Germany; atrocities; advances through Germany; enters Dresden
- Reich Theatre Week (festival)
- Reichelt, Frieda
- Reichelt, Gisela: wartime childhood in Dresden; during day of 13 February 1945; reaction to air-raid sirens; in cellar during first wave of bombing; emergence from cellar and observation of destruction and fires; during second wave of bombing; death of grandmother and blinding of grandfather; on morning of 14 February; during third wave of bombing; in aftermath of raids; billeted on farm; later life and memories of bombing
- Rembrandt van Rijn
- reunification, German (1990)
- Richter, Hans
- Riga
- Romany people
- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
- Rose Brothers (engineering company)
- Rosenau, Helen
- Rotterdam, bombing of
- Royal Air Force (RAF): origins and inter-war development; at outbreak of Second World War; first bombing raids on Germany; Battle of Britain; see also Bomber Command; Fighter Command
- Royal Flying Corps
- Rudolph, Wilhelm
- Ruhland
- Ruhr, French occupation (1920s)
- Russell, Alan
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Sailer-Jackson, Otto
- St Elmo’s Fire (electrical phenomenon)
- Salomonivic, Michal
- Salter, Alfred
- ‘Sapper’ (H. C. McNeile)
- Sarin (gas)
- Sarrasani circus
- Sault Ste Marie (Michigan)
- Schaffel, Horst
- Schencking, J. Charles
- Schmidt, Henry
- Schneidemühl (Piła)
- Schöningen
- schools and schooling; boarding and finishing schools; Müller Gelinek school; Vitzthum-Gymnasium; see also Kreuzschule
- Schräge Musik (Luftwaffe fighter aircraft technique)
- Schreiberhau (Szklarska Poręba)
- Schreier, Peter
- Schulze-Knabe, Eva
- Schumann, Ursel
- Schwarze Korps, Das (SS newspaper)
- scientific invention
- Sebald, W. G., On the Natural History of Destruction
- Seidel und Naumann (manufacturing company)
- Seifert, Richard
- Semper, Gottfried
- Settler, Hans
- Seydewitz family
- Seydewitz, Max
- SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force)
- Shakespeare, William; Hamlet
- shampoo
- ‘shell shock’
- Shrove Tuesday (Fasching) festivals
- Siemens, Werner
- Silbermann, Gottfried
- Silent Woman, The (opera)
- Silesia
- Sinclair, Sir Archibald (later 1st Viscount Thurso)
- Skrbek, Ursula
- slave labour see forced labour
- Smith, Alan
- Smith, Rex
- soap manufacture
- socialist realism
- Spaatz, Carl ‘Tooey’
- space exploration
- Spanish Civil War; bombing of Guernica
- Spearman, Eugene
- Speth, Dorothea
- Spitfire (fighter aircraft)
- Stalin, Joseph: views on bombing of German cities; at Yalta Conference; and development of atomic weapons; death
- stamp collecting
- Stasi (East German secret police)
- sterilization, forced
- Stewart, James
- Stirling (bomber aircraft)
- Stokes, Richard Rapier
- Stosch, Hans
- Stosch, Trude
- Strachan, Sir Hew
- Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany, 1939–1945, The (official history)
- Strauss, Richard
- Stuttgart
- Sudeten Germans
- suffocation, deaths by see asphyxiation
- suicides: German civilians; Nazi officials
- superstition: and bomber crews; and Dresden citizens
- synagogues; destruction of; reconstruction of
- synthetic oil plants see oil refineries
- Tague, Wendell
- ‘Tally Ho!’ (hunting cry)
- target-finding technology
- target indicators; see also marker flares
- Taylor, Telford
- Technical University (Dresden)
- Tedder, Arthur (later 1st Baron Tedder)
- Tharandt forest
- theatre and plays
- Theresienstadt concentration camp
- Thiel, Georg
- Thieme, Herr (grandfather to Gisela Reichelt)
- Thomas Cook (travel agency)
- Thorndike, Dame Sybil
- Thunderclap, Operation (proposed bombing of Berlin)
- Tibenham (Norfolk)
- Titian
- Tiverton, Hardinge Giffard, Lord (later 2nd Earl of Halsbury)
- Tokyo: Great Kanto Earthquake (1923); wartime bombing of
- toothpaste
- Topper, William
- tourism
- trams; damaged and destroyed in bombing raids; Jews barred from
- Transjordan
- Tripp, Miles: appearance and character; personal life; bomb aimer in Bomber Command; during day of 13 February 1945; preparations for Dresden raid; in second wave of attack; in subsequent raids; post-war life; literary career
- Tschernik, Günther
- typewriters, manufacture of
- Ulbricht, Walter
- ‘Ultra’ (intelligence decrypts)
- Underhill, Francis, Bishop of Bath and Wells
- unification, German (1990)
- universities; Dresden Academy of Fine Arts; Dresden Technical University
- US Army Air Force (USAAF): characteristics, operations and daily life of crews; development of bombing strategies; planning and preparation for Dresden raids; recruitment and training; see also Eighth Air Force
- US Strategic Air Forces Intelligence Office
- Utrecht
- V-weapons
- VE Day (8 May 1945)
- Verdi, Giuseppe, Rigoletto
- Vertigo (film)
- Vienna
- Vietnam War
- vineyards and wine-making
- Vogel, Hermann
- Voigt, Hanns
- Voigt, Helmut
- Volkssturm (militia)
- von Klemperer family
- Vonnegut, Jane (née Cox)
- Vonnegut, Kurt: background and early life; personal life; military service; taken as prisoner of war; in Dresden; during air raids of; February 1945; in aftermath of raids; burial of dead; post-war life; Slaughterhouse-Five
- Wagner, Richard; Bayreuth festival
- Wall Street crash (1929)
- Wallis, Sir Barnes
- Walther, Ehrenfried
- war crime accusations
- Warnatsch, Rudi
- Warsaw, bombing of
- Washington, DC
- water supplies
- weather conditions, during Dresden bombing raids
- Webster, Sir Charles, The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany, 1939–1945
- Weigart, Klaus
- Weigart, Wilhelm
- Weimar
- Wellington (bomber aircraft)
- Wells, H. G., The War in the Air
- Weser, Arno
- West Germany see Federal Republic of Germany
- Wilhelm II, Kaiser
- Winchester College
- ‘Window’ (radar counter-measure)
- Windsor, Edward, Duke of (earlier King Edward VIII)
- Windsor, Wallis, Duchess of
- Windsor Castle
- wireless operators
- Wisconsin, wildfires
- women: finishing schools for young ladies; forced labour; pregnant mothers; Red Army atrocities against; relations with Allied aircrews
- Women’s Royal Navy Service (Wrens)
- Woolf, Virginia
- Workers’ and Soldiers’ Council
- Würzburger (brewery company)
- Yalta Conference (February 1945)
- yellow star badges (for Jews)
- Yokohama
- York
- Zeiss Ikon (camera manufacturers)
- Zeus (Greek god)
- Zhukov, Georgy
- zones of occupation (post-war Germany)
- zoos and zoo animals
- Zweig, Stefan; collaboration with Strauss
- Zwinger Palace (Dresden); bells; galleries