[truth_seeker]

Heilbronn is a city smaller than Dresden or Berlin. Bombed it repeatedly, from 1940 until 1944.

I was stationed there, and we were advised to not go downtown on the anniversary of the worst bombing day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombings_of_Heilbronn_in_World_War_II

[muawiyah]

i was stationed in Kitzingen. There was this night where Wurzburg did a total blackout and Kitzingers were ordered to light up like a Christmas Tree.

They simply shut down on that anniversary.

The local memorial board ~ with pictures of the dead ~ had a section for the soldiers, a section for the Jews and another section for everybody else. I stopped there once to read through all the names and look at their pictures.

Growing up in Indianapolis had made ALL the names common in my mind.

[celmak]

I was stationed there, and we were advised to not go downtown on the anniversary of the worst bombing day.

And my uncle was stationed in Japan; he was told not to go to Hiroshima or Nagasaki during their anniversary of their atomic bombings You think we shouldn't have dropped those bombs? He was told not to go to towns where we fired bombed either; you think we shouldn't have dropped those bombs? more "civilians" died in the fire bombings of Japan than did Dresden, and in a shorter period of time