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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Modified link of Web site: ABC listen - Nightlife - Program: This Week in History: The Bombing of Dresden.	Aakanksha Gaur	May 21, 2026
	Anniversary information added.		Feb 14, 2026
	Add new Web site: Harvard Law School - International Human Rights Clinic - Decades after Dresden, We Must Do More to Protect Civilians from Incendiary Weapons.	Grace Young	Aug 21, 2025
	Add new Web site: ABC listen - Nightlife - Program: This Week in History: The Bombing of Dresden.	Gloria Lotha	Jan 17, 2025
	Add new Web site: Air and Space Forces Magazine - The Dresden Legend.	Grace Young	Nov 21, 2024
	Add new Web site: University of California - eScholarship - The Dresden Bombing as Portrayed in German Accounts, East and West.	Gloria Lotha	Sep 14, 2024
	Add new Web site: Al Jazeera - Dresden marks 75th anniversary of citys destruction.	Grace Young	Aug 02, 2024
	Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - The Bombing of Dresden in 1945.	Gloria Lotha	May 08, 2024
	Add new Web site: Academia - Dresden Prelude. Anglo-American City AirStrike in the Historical Retrospective (PDF).	Aakanksha Gaur	Mar 28, 2024
	Add new Web site: BBC - Dresden: The World War Two bombing 75 years on.	Gloria Lotha	Jul 07, 2023
	Add new Web site: Warfare History Network - The Bombing of Dresden: Was the Attack Fully Justified?	Aakanksha Gaur	Apr 01, 2023
	Add new Web site: World War II Database - Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities.	Aakanksha Gaur	Feb 03, 2023
	Infographic added.	Michael Ray	Sep 09, 2022
	Add new Web site: The National WWII Museum - Apocalypse in Dresden, February 1945.	Gloria Lotha	Aug 30, 2022
	Corrected display issue.	Adam Augustyn	Feb 20, 2019
	Media added.	Kathleen Sheetz	Feb 13, 2015
	Add new Web site: History Learning Site - The Bombing of Dresden.	Gloria Lotha	Sep 08, 2014
	New article added.	Melissa Petruzzello	Jan 16, 2014