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World War II-era bomb explodes in center of German town (Video 1:33)
Fox News ^ | 8-29-2012 | NA

Posted on 08/29/2012 2:04:06 PM PDT by servo1969

Raw video: Explosive experts detonate remains of 550-pound bomb causing fires, damage to buildings.

(Excerpt) Read more at video.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: History; Local News; Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: banglist; bomb; germany; wwii
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Just taste of the hellfire that people must have experienced who were on the receiving end of a WWII bombing run. Imagine hundreds of these all around you and never knowing where the next one will fall.

Then imagine it happening again tomorrow.

1 posted on 08/29/2012 2:04:16 PM PDT by servo1969
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To: servo1969
I fear that given the type of warfare we're capable of waging today, that’ll be remembered as the good ole’ days.
2 posted on 08/29/2012 2:09:39 PM PDT by LaserJock
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To: servo1969

Look, my dad FLEW B-17’s on those raids.

Don’t forget those Nazi bastards A.) shot back, and B.) started the whole bombing thing at Warsaw, Rotterdam, and London. They sowed the wind and harvested the whirlwind.

The Krauts had it coming. Consider it karma.

Or as Curtis LeMay once observed...”they forgot to put a roof on fortress Europe.


3 posted on 08/29/2012 2:13:47 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (Tosca, mi fai dimeticare Iddio!!!!!!)
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To: Emperor Palpatine

#3

Nobody said they didn’t deserve it.


4 posted on 08/29/2012 2:20:52 PM PDT by servo1969
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To: servo1969
Just taste of the hellfire that people must have experienced who were on the receiving end of a WWII bombing run. Imagine hundreds of these all around you and never knowing where the next one will fall.

Yep. BTW, this is Warsaw 1945.

5 posted on 08/29/2012 2:22:36 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: servo1969

The Germans probably figured the bombings were just savages trying to destroy their utopia, but I say the WW2 bombings and this delayed one were Karma Police. As you sow so shall you reap.

Last thing anyone should ever feel sorry for would be Germans and Japanese, who wholeheartedly supported their regimes even if they didn’t know all the specifics.


6 posted on 08/29/2012 2:29:40 PM PDT by X-spurt (It is truly time for ON YOUR FEET or on your knees)
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To: servo1969

I was at the site of this explosion in 1968.


7 posted on 08/29/2012 2:41:40 PM PDT by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
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To: X-spurt
Last thing anyone should ever feel sorry for would be Germans and Japanese, who wholeheartedly supported their regimes even if they didn’t know all the specifics.

And if you didn't wholeheartedly support the regime, the Gestapo in Germany or the Tokubetsu Kōtō Keisatsu in Japan would be knocking on your door at midnight.

8 posted on 08/29/2012 2:49:49 PM PDT by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
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To: servo1969

Just damn! 65+ years old? What the heck were they like fresh?


9 posted on 08/29/2012 2:50:35 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Hopey changey Low emission unicorns and a crap sandwich)
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To: Emperor Palpatine

My neighbor flew B-17s and used to brag, “I bombed the Hell out of Vienna and northern Italy”.


10 posted on 08/29/2012 2:58:46 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: servo1969

BFL

bomb for later


11 posted on 08/29/2012 3:58:07 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: TexasRepublic
Patton and Doolittle address Los Angeles

"...the first four hours, we passed over a destroyed land. Utterly destroyed. You who have not seen it do not know what hell looks like from the top. That's what Germany looks like. That's what Austria looks like. That's what any place that the 8th Air Force and the Third Army worked on looks like..."

12 posted on 08/29/2012 4:18:16 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: X-spurt
Right! There is a truly ignorant statement about the German People, to stupidly state that they ALL wholeheartedly supported their regimes is just plain asinine. That is the same as saying that because Bams was elected all Americans support his regime. Maybe you should forget the brainwashing and speak to the people who had to live through the times. No one, I repeat no one deserves to suffer at the the expense of the few but unfortunately we are only human. God help us!
13 posted on 08/29/2012 7:03:43 PM PDT by Mastador1
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To: Squantos

still working after all these years...BOOM! ping


14 posted on 08/29/2012 8:06:44 PM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum)
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To: Emperor Palpatine

Ok but was Dresden neccesary? Just a question. The Germans were licked and there were only refugees in Dresden. Did we really have to firebomb the city? Flame away!


15 posted on 08/29/2012 9:22:44 PM PDT by crazydad (-` sd)
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To: crazydad

It was justified, and here’s the main reason why.

The German people needed to be taught a lesson that they cannot start wars without paying a heavy price. That did not happen after the First World War, and it lead to the “stabbed in the back” theory, that Hitler was able to exploit, all the way to gaining power.

Dresden made damn sure that the German people would forever lose their taste for war.


16 posted on 08/29/2012 9:28:28 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: crazydad

I won’t flame. I’ll give you history and fact.

Short answer? Yes. Look at a 1944 map of Saxony. All the rail lines merge in Dresden. The main yards and Hauptbahnnhaus were right smack in the center of the city.

Germans were using those rail lines to reinforce the Russian front.

Dresden “china” was world-famous as pottery, but how many know that the Wehrmacht used the ceramics from the Dresden potteries to make mine covers?

Zeiss Optikal had their corporate HQ and main plant there. The same Zeiss Optikal that made gunsights for the new ME-262 and HE-178 jet fighters, and periscopes for Kriegsmarine U-Boats.

Churchill personally asked it be hit, and NO ONE said, “No” to him.

Finally, the Soviets were less than 50 miles away, and Churchill was having serious misgivings about Comrade Stalin. he wanted a formerly-intact German city on the Eastern Front leveled to show Stalin and the Reds what the RAF and USAAF were capable of doing and to watch THEIR step.

BTW, the bomb loads were the same as any other raid. Alt Markt Dresden was just old, intact, and very wooden......

I have less than zero empathy or sympathy for what happened to ANY German or Japanese city during that war. They got just what they asked for.


17 posted on 08/29/2012 9:40:25 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (I need a good stiff drink. How 'bout you?)
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To: Emperor Palpatine

Goebbels asked for “Total War”, and he got it.


18 posted on 08/29/2012 9:41:29 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

I hate you.

It took you two (2) sentences to say what I bloviated on five paragraphs about.......


19 posted on 08/29/2012 9:43:02 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (I need a good stiff drink. How 'bout you?)
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but I say the WW2 bombings and this delayed one were Karma Police.

This is what you get, when you mess with us.

20 posted on 08/29/2012 9:44:22 PM PDT by dfwgator
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