Fun fact: A good part of the relatively high casualty rate resulting from the raid on Dresden was caused by the utter lack of preparedness of Dresden's administration. I think I vaguely recall some Nazi official preferring to use funds meant for building air raid shelters and other precautions to enhance his personal lifestyle, because his shining example of a Nazi model city surely wouldn't be bombed, also who gives a fuck about the population anyway?

I mean, Dresden was one of the harder-hit cities, because it was a rare instance when American and British Bomber Command (and, while not participating directly, at the behest of the Soviet Union) agreed on a single target in the same time period. There were only a handful of other coordinated raids of that scale in the war.

Interestingly, the GDR continued to propagate the myth of "Innocent Dresden" (major logistics hub) to show how barbaric the imperialist West was.