On Feb. 13 and Feb. 14, 1945, in the last year of World War II, American and British bombers flattened the German city of Dresden, engulfing the picturesque medieval town in a firestorm. The two days of raids left some 25,000 people dead. Hurricane force winds caused by the fire had swept many of those who had survived the bombings into the inferno.
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To mark the anniversary, Getty Images photographer Sean Gallup revisited some of the sites pictured in historic images of the carnage, creating powerful composite images of Dresden now and then.
