>Went to Dresden for the nightlife—turns out it peaked in 1945.
>Dresden: the city that went from ‘nice place to visit’ to ‘very hot place to avoid’ real quick.
>The city had a hot arts scene—then just a hot scene.
>Dresden’s architecture was fire… unfortunately, so was everything else.
>When Dresden said ‘drop by anytime,’ the RAF really took it to heart.
>Dresden tried to host a barbecue. Everyone brought planes instead of ribs.
>Someone said ‘light up the city’—they forgot to say it was a bad idea.
>They said Dresden was worth preserving — so they preserved it as a giant pile of ashes.
>Dresden’s tourism slogan now: ‘Come for the history, stay because the city’s still burning.
>I asked a historian if Dresden had a heated past. He said, ‘Buddy… incendiary.’
>Dresden: the city that went from ‘nice place to visit’ to ‘very hot place to avoid’ real quick.
>The city had a hot arts scene—then just a hot scene.
>Dresden’s architecture was fire… unfortunately, so was everything else.
>When Dresden said ‘drop by anytime,’ the RAF really took it to heart.
>Dresden tried to host a barbecue. Everyone brought planes instead of ribs.
>Someone said ‘light up the city’—they forgot to say it was a bad idea.
>They said Dresden was worth preserving — so they preserved it as a giant pile of ashes.
>Dresden’s tourism slogan now: ‘Come for the history, stay because the city’s still burning.
>I asked a historian if Dresden had a heated past. He said, ‘Buddy… incendiary.’