[Tennessee Nana]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

What about Dresden, Wuppertal and the rest of the Ruhr Valley ????

The 8th Army Air Corp and the RAF, December, 1944

[Thrownatbirth]

Vonnegut would say, “So it goes.”

[outofstyle]

Thank you for the post. I have always heard about how horrific this fire bombing was. No matter which version one chooses, it must have been Hell.

Who is to blame? Hitler.

[Unam Sanctam]

The Frauenkirche has been rebuilt and the Neumarkt area is being rebuilt in traditional style houses. It’s quite nice, actually. 24 hour panorama here:

http://panorama.dresden.de/

[redstateconfidential]

Obviously we didn't do enough, there are Germans left who still hate us!

[JulienBenda]

...but THEY started it!

[dr_lew]

Despite the chaos during the devastation of the bombing, they said they found records of recovery and burial of the dead to be "remarkably orderly".

Deutschland, Deutschland über alles,
Über alles in der Welt,
Wenn es stets zu Schutz und Trutze
Brüderlich zusammenhält.

Germany, Germany above everything,
Above everything in the world,
When, for protection and defence, it always
takes a brotherly stand together.

[CougarGA7]

It’s very difficult to acertain exact numbers on a bombing campaign of that scale. Even if we did it today.

And remember that bombing was not incredibly accurate during WWII though the Norton Bomb site did make it better. I remember my grandfather (Nose gunner in B-24s) mentioning that the smaller the target the more ofter it had to be hit to be sure that it was taken out.

It sounds like they really took some time to get a solid numbers on the Dresden firebombing. Good job by them.

[dfwgator]

Excuse me, if I don't feel sorry for the Germans:

Warsaw

Rotterdam

[Daaave]

Frankly, I believe the people of Dresden and Germany got what they deserved.

Lidice Massacre

ORADOUR-SUR-GLANE Massacre

[proudpapa]

Slaughterhouse Five, anyone?

[familyop]

The many exaggerated lies written about Dresden having been intended as a civilian target are nothing more than neo-Nazi propaganda. Incendiaries are needed to destroy military equipment and production machines for making military equipment. I've trained to destroy such equipment with smaller incendiaries. And we didn't have smart bombs during WWII.



https://www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/PopTopics/dresden.htm
HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE 14-15 FEBRUARY 1945
BOMBINGS OF DRESDEN

Prepared by:
USAF Historical Division
Research Studies Institute
Air University

[Here's an excerpt:]

24. As related in paragraphs 5-11 above, Dresden became a military target as (1), and of overriding importance, a primary communications center in the Berlin-Leipzig-Dresden railway complex; (2) as an important industrial and manufacturing center directly associated with the production of aircraft components and other military items, including poison gas, anti-aircraft and field guns, and small guns; and (3) as an area containing specific military installations.

And you descendants of the German-American Bund who continue to spread the anti-American myths: bug off!

[ArrogantBustard]

calling the raid a "bombing Holocaust" and comparing it to Hitler's murder of six million Jews.

I'm sick of holocaust denial. It's pervasive and disgusting.

Hitler's National Socialists murdered 11.5 million people in the death camps (of whom, yes, six million were Jews).

Apparently, 5.5 million murdered Gentiles are "unpersons".

Folks need to quit covering up for Hitler. Give him full credit for being the abomination he truly was.