British and American bombers reduced Dresden to rubble on February 13, 1945. According to historians, up to 25,000 people died and the rubble area covered twelve square kilometers.
Right-wing extremists artificially inflate the number of victims and try to construct a war crime by the Allies. Dresden and Saxony have combined the memory of the destruction of the Elbe city in 1945 with a call for peaceful coexistence and resistance to right-wing populism and nationalism. In the evening, around 13,000 citizens joined the traditional human chain around the old town.