Posted on 02/13/2017 4:33:00 PM PST by nickcarraway
Dresden's mayor has used the event to remind participants of the brutalities of war, even in the 21st century. During World War II, Allied forces firebombed the German city of Dresden, leaving 25,000 people dead.
Around 12,000 people on Monday gathered in Dresden and joined hands to form a human chain in a message of "peace and reconciliation" marking the anniversary of the deadly firebombing of the city by Allied forces towards the end of the Second World War.
The act aimed at reminding the participants of the brutal bombing, considered one of the Allied forces more controversial acts during the war.
"In this world, several conflicts are being carried out in a warlike manner and human rights are being trampled on," said Dresden Mayor Dirk Hilbert.
"This suffering affects us directly in a globalized world," he added, placing a white rose on a memorial of the controversial attack.
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>No Mr. Goebels, Rotterdam wasn’t an attack on a train station. The entire wooden medieval city center was attacked along with wide areas of residential neighborhoods.
You don’t know jack about the attack and you toss insults aroubd to make up for the tiny size of your hands. The attack happened on a cloudy/hazy day where the level bombers had a very hard time correctly identify thier targets. Bombers were off target, something that happen about a million times during WW2.
>The Krauts were not trying to stop the Dutch train network from helping the war effort. They were demanding a Dutch surrender and the bombing of the cite was an “or else”. The Germans weren’t after a military target.
Historians disagree with you.
>And as for Germans deciding they can’t terrorize a population, they kept trying to do so until the Luftwaffe and SS were crushed. Hell, they even named the V-1 and V-2 “vengeance” weapons. They launched them into a circle 7 miles wide if they were on their game. They did this until the month before the war ended. They were working on America bomber and rocket with the goal of hitting New York. The Germans obviously believed in terror bombing until they were blasted into being nice people.
Notice what Hitler called those weapons? Vengeance 1 and Vengeance 2. Vengeance for what? The destruction of German cities. Regular miltary leaders through the the whole program was a waste of resources. And frankly should it surprise you that a mass murder like Hitler though he could terrorize his war to victory? Terror bombing advocates like you have a lot in common with a mad men like Hitler.
>Germans and Japanese both are very nice now, and it took Dresden attacks to do it.
I’m sure Hitler would say the same about the Jews and the Holocaust.
The center of Rotterdam was burnt out and 800 people lost their lives. The Germans bombed the city even though the Dutch had capitulated. The Germans launched a war they had every intention of winning by any means necessary. As to Dresden and Hamburg and every other German city: Tough sh!t.
“If the war had been going for them in 1944 as it was in 1940 they wouldn’t have tried to kill Hitler. “
German patriots began plotting to get rid of Hitler as early as 1938, but don’t let facts get in the way of your story.
“Your ignorance of WW2 history is matched only by your ignorance of The Civil War.”
That’s your real problem, as I suspected. You can’t defend your simplistic ideas about the Civil War so you want to pick a fight about something else. Imagine my surprise. Funny how well your own jibe fits you.
Simplistic? Dude you’re defending the warmongering Leftists, the Nazis with the same zeal you defend the Confederacy. The South went to war to preserve slavery, the Nazis went to war to enslave the world. Doesn’t surprise me at all. You’d have fit right in in the South in 1861 or Germany in 1933. And as far as trying to kill Hitler, they didn’t have much luck at it, did they?
That’s a level of stupidity I didn’t think even you could attain. I underestimate your brilliance.
Members of my family, now deceased, risked their lives and were wounded fighting in WW2. What did yours do?
“Members of my family, now deceased, risked their lives and were wounded fighting in WW2. What did yours do?”
My dad was an officer in the 7th Army, HQ AAA battery, commanders Patton and Patch. North Africa, Sicily, Corsica, landed southern France in Operation Dragoon, north to Alsace and the Vosges, across the Rhine and into Germany. Nine months of continuous fighting from the day that they landed in France. Waiting for orders to the Pacific when the war ended. A tour in postwar Germany at 7th Army HQ Heidelberg. Staff and Command College Ft Leavenworth KS. Assigned to the Pentagon. A tour in Vietnam 1962-63 where he served with Patton’s son. More Pentagon duty. Retired in 1966. Awarded the Legion of Merit.
He’s 96 and still active in the Sons of the American Revolution, about a dozen ancestors who were either Continental Line or miltia, some killed during the war. He belongs to the Society of Colonial Wars. Huguenot Society. Sons of Confederate Veterans with an ancestor in the 13th Mississippi killed at Gettysburg- something for you to cheer about there. I’ll be sure to tell him that you think my family are Nazi sympathizers if you’d like.
>You’re a Nazi sympathizer aren’t you?
No.
Why are your views on mass murder from the air so much like Hitler’s?
You’re a moral idiot.
They sure went wrong with you.
Nice try at confusing the issue. I said you are the Nazi sympathizer. Auschwitz, Treblinka, Dachau, Warsaw, Rotterdam, Coventry. The Krauts got off easy.As I said, tough sh!t for them.
I don’t put any stock in the ravings of a belligerent drunk.
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