Wilfried Wilms, assistant professor of German, presented a paper at
a conference on Literature, Film and War, organized by SUNY Binghamton's
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. The paper, “'They asked for
it' – Allied War Reporting in the Aftermath of the Dresden Bombing”
investigated Allied war reporting on the raid on Dresden.
Specifically, the paper focused on the evoked principle of retribution that
curtailed discourse on the moral legitimacy of the raids.