You're missing out on historical facts.
Dresden was a major rail nexus
Dresden was Germany's seventh-largest city and the largest remaining unbombed built-up area.
An official 1942 guide to the city described it as "one of the foremost industrial locations of the Reich".
As late as 1944 the German Army High Command's Weapons Office listed 127 medium-to-large factories and workshops that were supplying the Wehrmacht with war materiel.
Dresden was a military target - moreover it was the best target for night-time bombers that existed at that stage of the war.
Bombing it was in no sense a war crime.
Yeah, yeah. If Dresden was such a high value target why wasn't bombed before that? Could it be that they waited until it full of wounded and refugees.
Strategic bombing never slowed down German industrial production and was practically a non factor in determining the outcome of the war. It was only good for one thing and that was the destruction of civilians.
If you want to make excuses for the incineration of tens of thousands non-combatants that's on you.