On the evening of February 13, 1945, a series of Allied firebombing raids begins against the German city of Dresden, killing as many as 135,000 people. More than 3,400 tons of explosives were dropped on the city by 800 American and British aircraft. The firestorm created by the two days of bombing set the city burning for many more days, littering the streets with charred corpses, including women and children. This affected eight square miles of the city.