[RedWulf]

>Yup. If every city and town in Germany had been turned into a Dresden as early as 1943 the war might have ended sooner.

That’s not historically accurate. Intentional mass murder like dresden increased German resolve. The correct strategic use of heavy bombers didn’t occurre until 1945 with mass attacks on the transportation networks which resulted in the total shutdown of the German indrustal machine withing 3 months of the start of the campaign.

The advocates for mass murder by bomber delayed the end of the war by almost a year with tactics the Germans had already been proven ineffective in Spain and during the Battle of Britain.

[ealgeone]

That’s not historically accurate. Intentional mass murder like dresden increased German resolve. The correct strategic use of heavy bombers didn’t occurre until 1945 with mass attacks on the transportation networks which resulted in the total shutdown of the German indrustal machine withing 3 months of the start of the campaign.

I thought the Transportation Plan began in 1944 before the invasion of Normandy.

Of equal, if not greater importance, were the attacks on Germany's oil capacity. This really limited Germany's ability to continue the war.

[jmacusa]

Mass murder? All of war is mass murder. Auschwitz was mass murder. Fire bombing didn't start with Dresden. It started when the Luftwaffe firebombed Rotterdam. The Germans made the rules. We played by them. Too bad for them. Would you have preferred a different outcome?