Bombing of Dresden. From February 13 to February 15, 1945, during the final months of World War II (1939-45), Allied forces bombed the historic city of Dresden, located in eastern Germany. The bombing was controversial because Dresden was neither important to German wartime production nor a major industrial center,…
It is little known that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt r has a Jewish background. His Jewish father was David Jacob Eisenhower. “Ike” as the President was called, wrote about himself in the West Point Yearbook, saying he was “the terrible Swedish Jew, big as life and twice as natural.”