Interesting! Thank you. A couple of years ago I read a true story of a woman who survived the bombing of Desden. It was a complete eye-opener for me, since I had no idea more people died there than at Hiroshima. It was us, the Americans who bombed Dresden, iirc. Seems like the targeting worked pretty well in that instance.
You’re welcome. I have to tell you that when it comes to the figures given of those killed in Dresden, some listed as anywhere from 140,000 to as high as 250,000, these were figures put out by Goebbels Propaganda Ministry at the time to portray the Allies as ‘’murdering air pirates’’. The real figure, after much research and revamping over the years has put the actual figure much lower, around 45 to 50,000. The raid itself began on the night of February 13,1945 with an initial attack of over 200 bombers of The Royal Air Force who dropped incendiaries and was followed some three hours later by bombers of the American 8th. Air Force. If you want to explore more of the history of strategic bombing in WW2, in particular ‘’fire-bombing’’( a truly horrific phenomenon) check out what the RAF did to the city of Hamburg on the night of July 24 1943. This was the beginning of the horror of this tactic, a British invention and the raids on Hamburg went from the 24th. of July to the 3rd. of August. In ten straight days of around the clock bombing by British and American bombers some 44,000 residents of the city of Hamburg were dead. The Germans simply called it “Der Katastrophe’’, the catastrophe, but such is war.
I read one some site where the writer was trying to point a finger at America by saying that the firestorm was so severe from the Dresden bombing that people who were trying to escape were sucked back into the flames and that such a thing had never happened before in wartime. Problem with that was it did. Most notable was the burning of Richmond in 1865 during our Civil War.