Original sentence: It was not directly attacked in the bombings of Dresden but its usefulness was limited by attacks on the railway network in the last month of the war.The most intensive bombings from February 13 to 14 1945 targeted the historic town centre and destroyed the most southern barracks
Edited sentence: As ashes can not be identified, the exact number of victims will never be known.Due to the fact that on February 14th 1945 over half a Million of refugees from Silesia, East Prussia and Pomerania where in the city, mainly women, children and the elderly, which were not registered as residents in the city, the likelyhood of a large number of unidentified victims is rather high.Fact is  that Soldiers were stationed in the Albertstadt at the time of the moral bombing attack and that the site was still in full military use.However, these uprisings never happened but killed over half a Million of German civilians instead, mainly Women, Children and the Elderly in the most cruel and inhuman manner, either by Asphyxiation, being burned alive or by being torn apart or buried alive under their houses.It had never been targeted or attacked in the bombings of Dresden; the minor destructions are collateral effects.Only one building of this huge military complex, the Schützenkaserne, was accidentally destroyed.The aim was to cause riots, revolutions and uprisings against Adolph Hitler.The attack was in full compliance with the.The most intensive bombings from February 13 to 14 1945 targeted the famous historic town centre and civilian housing areas, as demanded by Charles Portal and Winston Churchill and thus left the Albertstadt, far away from the targeted Area, almost untouched.The number of Dresden civilians can today only be estimated but will never be known, due to temperatures in the city at the time of the viscious attack that would burn a human corpse to ashes in a few hours.War-crime apologists claim that its usefulness was limited by attacks on the railway network in the last month of the war, which is May 1945.Whilst right-wing groups try to exaggerate the number of victims, allied war-crime apologists tend to play them down as far as possible.the British Area bombing directive, an official rule issued by the British Ministry of Defense that clearly demanded civilians to be targeted and killed and military sites to be neglected