First of all you got the years wrong, Blackwood. Berlin was nuked in 1944, which makes it the 64th anniversary.
I´m surprised the previous posters have not commented on just how badly the Allies fucked it up. Just the bombing of Berlin killed about 100,000 civilians, but shortened the war not by a single day as Adolf Hitler survived this attack.
The long term effects are even worse, the massive enmity caused by the repeated attacks guaranteed Germany was always a shaky NATO ally at best. Until the shit hit the fan in 79 when the SPD/FDP government succumbed to million strong demonstrations because they did not veto NATO´s "Double-Track" decision even though no Pershing II missiles were not to be stationed in Germany anyway. The swing to the left almost got Germany out of NATO and got the west on the brink of loosing the cold war. Speaking of loosing, Germany withdrawing from the NATO military command in 1992, the utter lack of German support for the 1st gulf war and pretty much any other kind of international operation with any level of American participation might be seen as ingratitude given the USA´s support for reunification, but realistically no government could survive anything that smells like military support for the USA anymore. Not after 79.
Roosevelt should have listened to his advisers warning him he has to get Hitler or he will get nothing. And even more to the much stronger warnings preceding the bombing of Dresden and the ones preceding the bombing of Munich.