wrote the destruction of dresden remains a serious query against the conduct of the allied bombing. paris had lost the prime minister's support yet he was never ordered to cease carpet bombing german targets that would continue until the end of the wall. back. german civilians were trapped like the animals in the berlin zoo he refused to leave cages that had been ripped open by bombs. the bombing stopped only with the red army's final advance. soviet troops attacked berlin on april sixteenth one thousand nine hundred forty five. germany vowed to fight until the end.