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Okay, but it’s just not the same since Freddie Mercury died.

[dis.kevin]

Cry me a tear Germany.

[Amberdawn]

Can you say Chutzpah? I suppose not, given that there are no Yiddish speaking Jews in Germany anymore....

[randog]

Helma Orosz, the mayor of Dresden, which was devastated in an Allied attack in February 1945, criticized the plans for the monument...

It's not like the monument is in your city, Helma. Perhaps Helma could engage in come constructive criticism, like putting a monument to the victims in her own city. The inscription could read, "Don't start something you can't finish."

[pfflier]

That’s the German perspective. Now lets ask the folks in London and Coventry what they think about it.

[TurboZamboni]

The bombing raids were a response to German attacks on British cities ...

"We didn't start the fire"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a2SS0zqmzk

[Perdogg]

winners write the rule and the history books.

[dfwgator]

Rotterdam

Warsaw

Coventry

So why should I shed any tears over Dresden.

[PGR88]

Yeah, because all Hitler really wanted was a big hug.

[gorush]

"The bombing raids were a response to German attacks on British cities and were stepped up massively in the summer of 1944 after the D-Day landings. Their aim was to destroy Germany's military machinery and to crush public morale."

It's in there...does the complaining German not have a clue about how the war played out and why it was necessary to bomb German cities? Their dear leader was ready to let every German die at the end because he felt that they had let HIM down. Had they cleaned up their own mess there wouldn't have been a need to bomb...anybody.

[VanDeKoik]

“The planned unveiling in London of a memorial to the 55,573 Royal Air Force Bomber Command airmen killed in World War II has sparked muted criticism in Germany, where many regard the Allied air raids that destroyed entire cities and killed over 500,000 civilians as unjustified and criminal.”

Oh? And???

Dont start s*it if you aren’t prepared to get a severe beat down.

[DoughtyOne]

The planned memorial triggered astonishment in Dresden and was judged critically by us in diplomatic terms, she told SPIEGEL ONLINE.

I am pleased that this exchange of views led to the monument now featuring an inscription commemorating the victims of the bombing war. The objections many people in Germany had to such a memorial have been taken seriously and I welcome this very much. It's a further gesture of reconciliation between Britain and Germany.

Unfricken believable. British actions were a reaction to the bombing of London. Now the bombers of London dictate the memorial's aspects.

Who won that war anyway?

This memorial was supposed to honor the lost crews of the bombers. Now it places those lost crews on a part with the Nazis.

This makes me furious, and I'm not even British.

[VeniVidiVici]

[RichInOC]

Put a statue of Arthur Harris in downtown Dresden, with the inscription: LECTOR SI MONUMENTUM REQUIRIS CIRCUMSPICE. “Reader, if you seek his monument, look around.”

[Meadow Muffin]

You ever notice how everyone is supposed to be indignent that the Allies smashed the Axis and that the US nuked Japan. I got to thinking...just who started WWII...I suppose the Huns and the Nips thought that they should be given a free pass once they shot that first round.

[pennyfarmer]

Sounds like a bully crying about a broken nose.

[VeniVidiVici]

There is a small, Allied war cemetery not far from the Olympic stadium in Berlin. Went there once with the (ex)wife. Vast majority of the graves seemed to be allied air crews. The stones listed the unit and the names of the crew. The crew of one bomber had someone with my last name AND my wife’s maiden name. It was kind of spooky.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Tough crap Germans. We should have used a nuke to end it sooner.

[lbryce]

To the citizens of Dresden during World War 2 as well as those of today, I say,
TOUGH SH!T, cry me a river.
Commander Harris of the British Royal Air Force is one of the greatest heroes of the war.

[wolfman23601]

First a flagpole and now Germany wants to dictate what kind of memorial the Queen of England should put on her land. I can’t imagine Edward III is resting peacefully.