This tracks with what I know. Bombing wasn’t as precise as it is now, but with Dresden the Allies decided to go “let’s just drop as many as possible so that even when we miss, we don’t miss.” This resulted in a lot of dead civilians and not as much disruption of military infrastructure.

Of course, neo-nazis ran away with the narrative as some kind of ethnic cleansing campaign used in conjunction with the siege of Berlin to equivocate the Allies to the Axis.