[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.

[muawiyah]

People forget that in the late Winter and early Spring of 1945 every city in Germany was no longer relevant. Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin had already decided on the Red Army assault on the Eastern States and Berlin. Munitions factories in Louisville and other Midwestern places had been working overtime for months to produce the artillery and rockets that would be used in the actual battles.

I've heard the money was pretty good, but there was nothing to spend it on ~ yet. Folks had hope. The Germans, in contrast, were already despondent.

Bombing Dresden may have been just a show of power or brutality ~ or done by the Western Allies to prohibit a sudden move to the West by the Red Army, or done by the traitors in the midst of the Western Allies to prohibit a sudden move to the East by Western Allied armies ~ so to speak, if Dresden had any residual military utility, it was as a rail connection for the Western Allies or the Russians ~ but the Germans were spent, and once the Red Army did in Berlin, they'd be totally prostrate.