[MNJohnnie]

Literally no one cares what the Alt Left revisionist historians think about this.

This is war something modern political activist pretending to be historians ignore.

It was requested by the Soviets to prep the battle field for their advance into Germany. Bombing Dresden disrupted the Nazis ability to move troops and supplies to counter the Soviet Winter offensive that started in Poland Jan 12 1945.

[Frank Drebin]

"War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over."

[1Old Pro]

littering the streets with charred corpses, including many children.

They forgot to add women, as in women and children.

[Tell It Right]

But the extent of the destruction was, for many, disproportionate...

I've read that the total civilian casualties created by the Axis powers was 6 times more than the ones killed by the Allies.

[Obadiah]

The firebombing of Dresden was horrible. I believe it was very close to being a war crime and a crime against humanity. A lot of innocent civilians were literally incinerated in the bombing and aftermath. Stories of underground bunkers with the liquified remains of humans. Horrible.

[PGR88]

OK, sure - but how was the BIPOC LGBTQ community affected?

[dfwgator]

Ask for Totaller Krieg, get Totaller Krieg.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

A 1942 paper was prepared at Churchill’s request to address the issue of the inefficient bombing to-date and the high loss of bombers to German fighters and anti-aircraft guns. The paper was prepared by a respected British scientist and adviser named Frederick Lindemann, came to be known as the "dehousing paper."

Lindemann postulated the wide-area bombing was entirely justified because it dehoused a large portion of the German population, which was detrimental to morale. Dehoused was simply a euphemism for destroying civilian homes. According to Lindemann, the destruction of 30% or more of the housing in over 50 of Germany’s largest cities was the best use of the RAF’s Bomber Command. “Investigation seems to show that having one’s home demolished is most damaging to morale. People seem to mind it more than having their friends or even relatives killed”, wrote Lindemann.

[Leaning Right]

The firebombing of Dresden was both unnecessary and quite understandable.

Unnecessary in that Dresden had only minor military value. And the war was winding to an end. Nazi Germany was finished, and would collapse in a few more months.

Understandable in that the Allies were still uncertain about that.

Bottom line: War is hell, as General Sherman so rightly noted.

[Fiji Hill]

My high school German teacher’s family was from Dresden. He showed us a picture of the nice home in which they lived. Unfortunately, Dresden wound up on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain, so they had to leave, and some apparatchik probably moved in.

[SpaceBar]

The only reason what was done to Dresden looks so bad is because we don’t have archival film footage of what the muslims did to India a thousand years ago.

[montag813]

Hitler shouldn’t have done Coventry. FAFO. Besides, we killed 4x as many people in Tokyo over 48 hours. War is hell. Maybe after 80 years they can stop whining about it.

[sauropod]

bkmk

[katana]

Supposedly, one purpose may have been to give the Red Army, which had a ringside seat, an example of what British (night) and American (daylight) bombing could do to a city. Basically turned Dresden into an open air blast furnace.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

So it goes.

[CodeToad]

Should have firebombed the entire country. War is not a police action subject to courts and civility.