I've heard the money was pretty good, but there was nothing to spend it on ~ yet. Folks had hope. The Germans, in contrast, were already despondent.
Bombing Dresden may have been just a show of power or brutality ~ or done by the Western Allies to prohibit a sudden move to the West by the Red Army, or done by the traitors in the midst of the Western Allies to prohibit a sudden move to the East by Western Allied armies ~ so to speak, if Dresden had any residual military utility, it was as a rail connection for the Western Allies or the Russians ~ but the Germans were spent, and once the Red Army did in Berlin, they'd be totally prostrate.
If the Germans were ‘spent’:
why did the British and Canadians then take 6000 casualties a week in February 1945 to clear the Reichswald Forest, in some of the most vicious fighting of the war?.
why did the Germans two weeks after Dresden stop Bradley’s first attempt to cross the Rhine?.
why did the Germans stop Simpson’s 9th US army dead in its tracks?
why did the Germans flood the dams in the Hurtgen Forest, stopping the American advance through the forest stone dead?
why did the Germans punch a hole 70 miles deep in the Soviet lines at Lake Balaton in Hungary early Feb 45, using SS and SS panzer units and almost win the battle?.
why were the allies still being held fast in Italy?.