A city in
Germany. It sits on the
Elbe river about 80km northwest of the
Czech border. After
Berlin, Dresden is one of the greatest and best-known
East German cities. It is the capital of the
Bundesland of
Sachsen (
Saxony in English). The Dresdner
Schloss is the old palace of the
Saxony Electors and
Emperors, which is being restored after having been firebomded in
WWII. Also of note is the German Museum of
Hygiene.
Dresden still shows many scars from the Allied bombings in February 1945, that claimed over 50,000 civilian lives.