[SoCal Pubbie]

“Would the RAF and USAAF uniforms be a symbol of the atrocity visited on the innocent civilians in Dresden?”

I see that the spirit of Howard Zinn lives on past the grave. Dresden was a major rail and communications center, had 110 factories and 50,000 workers in the city supporting the German war effort, and had a weapons depot. Dresden did have a military significance. Frail old Jewish men and women and their grandchildren, not so much.

[TallahasseeConservative]

Howard Zinn and I have nothing in common. Pointing out uncomfortable facts is not historical revisionism. By February of 1945, Germany was on it’s knees. Even the memo issued to RAF airmen on the night of the raid, suggested that Dresden was to be used to “show the Russians what Bomber command can do.” Was the interment of German Americans and Japanese Americans wrong? Facts are facts. Thousands of innocent German Men, Women and Children died, some of those frail and old, as well.

[Cronos]

SoCal is correct - Dreden was a major industrial center. It had some legitimacy as a target. But I would note that the RAF Bomber Harris wanted to get civilian targets as well to spread panic.

This was wrong but not evil on the sense of the SS where women and children were TARGETED.

[MplsSteve]

“I see that the spirit of Howard Zinn lives on past the grave. Dresden was a major rail and communications center, had 110 factories and 50,000 workers in the city supporting the German war effort, and had a weapons depot. Dresden did have a military significance.”

You got there ahead of me. I was gonna post pretty much the same thing.