Books

Slaughterhouse V, the absurdistic novel by Vonnegut around the bombing of Dresden, was high on the readinglist for our English class at school. That is the reason I never read it then, but only opened it years later, after picking it up at a second hand book market. Interestingly enough the cover of this 1970 paperback uses the word holocaust not in its current singular use for the genocide of 6 million Jews, but as a general word meaning 'total destruction'.
The open city of Dresden was bombed in 1945 by the RAF, killing tens of thousands of civilians. So it goes.