[muawiyah]

That's a little broad doncha' think. Germany, for the most part had lost by the time somebody thought to bomb Dresden ~ and with the Red Army pausing from the Vistula–Oder Offensive for necessary reinforcement and resupply ~ whatever military utility Dresden had had was of little note except or one thing ~ the possibility that German military units might flee through there to the West to surrender to American or British forces.

This particular bombing begins to look much more like the opening shot in the Cold War, at least in Joe Stalin's playbook.

[jmacusa]

It’s not true that Dresden was a city without military importance. It had industries on it’s out skirts and it was a major east/west railroad hub. People either don’t know or forget that in 1942 master propagandist Joseph Goebbels gave what has to be one of the greatest propaganda speeches of all times when he extorted thousands in a speech at Berlins Sportsplast when he roared to his audience “Do you want total war?’’ They answered in a resounding “Yes!””. They asked for it and they got it.

[jmacusa]

No, I don't think it's too broad and I'm beyond fed up with moral idiots calling Dresden a war crime. The Luftwaffe flattened Warsaw, they burnt out the heart of Rotterdam and Coventry. They started the damn war!. In a speech in 1943 Josef Goebbels gave a stem winding speech at the Berlin Sportsplatz and thunderously asked the German people “Do you want total war?’’ And they thundered back “Yes’!’’. Well they got it. Tough shit for Dresden.