[processing please hold]

Some analysts suggest bombing Dresden was a total waste of resources that could have been better used in taking out some of the railroads that led to the Nazi death camps.

In war your opponent must detest the very idea of war. Dresden was to break their will to continue Hitler's war.

[muawiyah]

Dresden was peanuts, as war went in WWII. If destroying that town hurt anyone's morale, it was that of so many of the Dresdener's cousins working in war industries in Indianapolis.

I think I've named enough of the local war industries to indicate the seriousness of that little problem.

Makes me wonder why Bomber Harris wanted to demoralize the guys building Norden bombsites. Maybe he wanted to have the war continue on a bit longer than would otherwise be required if pilots could hit their military targets?

[rcocean]

"In war your opponent must detest the very idea of war. Dresden was to break their will to continue Hitler's war."

Why didnt we just kill every german POW or murder every German in the Rhineland ? What about just killing the little kids under 10 years old or burning the Grandma's (at the stake of course)?

That would have really made them detest war.

/sarcasm off/

[Lion in Winter]

"In war your opponent must detest the very idea of war. Dresden was to break their will to continue Hitler's war."

Very true, very, very true. Especially since hitler started the war and had so much popular/cult-like following.