Dresden-Klotzsche–Dresden Airport railway Dresden-Klotzsche–Dresden Airport railway The Dresden-Klotzsche–Dresden Airport railway is a single-track, electrified main line in Saxony, Germany. It runs from Dresden-Klotzsche station on the Görlitz–Dresden railway to Dresden Airport and today it is served exclusively by the Dresden S-Bahn. The railway to Dresden Airport developed from a siding to the Air War School Klotzsche, which was finished in 1936. Its construction was started after the opening of the airport in Dresden in July 1935. A three kilometre-long railway siding, which had its terminus near the current Dresden-Nord interchange between the Autobahn 4 and the Autobahn 13, was built in 1934 to
Bombing of Dresden in World War II bombing of Dresden has been used by Holocaust deniers and pro-Nazi polemicists—most notably by the British writer David Irving in his book "The Destruction of Dresden"—in an attempt to establish a moral equivalence between the war crimes committed by the Nazi government and the killing of German civilians by Allied bombing raids. As such, "grossly inflated" casualty figures have been promulgated over the years, many based on a figure of over 200,000 deaths quoted in a forged version of the casualty report, "Tagesbefehl" No. 47, that originated with Hitler's Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels. An inquiry conducted at the