Journal of Undergraduate Research
Keywords
Slaughterhouse-Five, annihilative bombing, Dresden, fiction, nonfiction
College
Family, Home, and Social Sciences
Department
English
Abstract
Some historical events, singular in their atrocity and horror, are not easily forgotten. Every nation, culture, and religion, claims one event and remembers it with solemnity. For Japan, it was Hiroshima and Nagasaki. For Jews, the Holocaust. Now in Indonesia, it is a devastating tsunami. For America it could be Pearl Harbor or September 11. Germans are no exception. They remember the night of February 13, 1945—the bombing and annihilation of their beloved Dresden. And when the talk turns to Dresden, it turns to Slaughterhouse-Five.
Recommended Citation
Webb, Philip and Hickman, Dr. Trent
(2013)
"Slaughterhouse-Five and the Bombing of Dresden: Reconciling Fiction with Non-Fiction,"
Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013:
Iss.
1, Article 626.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2013/iss1/626