[Jeff Head]

Sorry...we had gone through years of hell...Europe had gone through much more.

We punctuated what was happening to the NAzis and German people with Dresden. Just like with the Imperialists we punctuated what was happening with Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In Japan, we avoided a very costly invasion by so doing. I believe we avoided equal hardships amongst the German people and their leadership by doing the same type of thing with Dresden.

Horrible thing, horrific thing...but as I said, it was the end points made regarding any will or desire on their part to have any fight or last stands.

[dfwgator]

Remember that at the time there was a lot of concern that the Nazis would establish the National Redoubt in the mountains of Bavaria and fight a protracted guerilla war that could have gone on for years.

[wideawake]

The Nazis thought they could launch V-2s into London to terrorize the British population and yet were somehow exempt from retaliation?

The Nazis were begging for a Dresden and got exactly what they deserved.

If all the ~1500 V-2s launched into England had reached their targets accurately, they would have killed more than a quarter million British civilians.

The Nazis deserved 10 Dresdens.