Like I said; The German’s gave up less than three months later; the bombing worked to weaken their resolve to resist. War is hell; and the more hell the faster it ends.
Still trying to connect up the military importance of Dresden to Berlin and it's still slithering away ~ like there was no connection at all. The Russians lost 70,000 troops rolling over Berlin. If more Germans had been riding trains up and down the rails through Dresden, they might well have lost several tens of thousands fewer for all anyone can know.
Someday we need to take one of those climate models and convert it to reruns of WWII ~ the only stipulation is that in the end Germany be defeated.
Heilbronn is a city smaller than Dresden or Berlin. Bombed it repeatedly, from 1940 until 1944.
I was stationed there, and we were advised to not go downtown on the anniversary of the worst bombing day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombings_of_Heilbronn_in_World_War_II