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The German diarist Victor Klemperer includes a first-hand account of the firestorm in his published works.

Miles Tripp, who was a bomb aimer in one of the aircraft which bombed Dresden, wrote a novel, Faith is a Windsock (1953), plus a non-fiction work, The Eighth Passenger (1969), based on his experiences.

Józef Mackiewicz, a Polish writer, included a shockingly realistic description of the bombing of Dresden in the final part of his quasi-documentary novel Colonel Miasoyedov's Case (1962).

The main action of the novel Closely Observed Trains, by Czech author Bohumil Hrabal, takes place on the night of the first raid.

In the 1983 Pink Floyd album The Final Cut, "The Hero's Return", the protagonist lives his years after WWII tormented by "desperate memories", part of him still flying "over Dresden at angels 1–5" (fifteen-thousand feet).

Jonathan Safran Foer's novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005) incorporates the bombings into essential parts of the story.

The bombings are a central theme in the 2006 German TV production Dresden by director Roland Suso Richter. Despite the romantic plot between a British bomber pilot and a German nurse, the movie attempts to reconstruct the facts surrounding the Dresden bombings from both the perspective of the RAF pilots as well as the Germans in Dresden at the time.

Daniel Bukvich wrote a musical interpretation of the events called "Symphony No. 1 (In Memorium, Dresden, 1945)".

The hatecore band Rahowa, in their album, Declaration of War, recorded a song "Avenge Dresden" about the Bombings, demonizing Churchill and sympathizing with Hitler while alluding to the Creativity Movement and Holocaust denier David Irving.

The protagonist of The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher uses fire as his main weapon, and a description of when he destroys a building with it is similar in occurrence to the Firebombing of Dresden.

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