>If you change your mind and want to see the truth about the Dresden military targets
>(instead of Nazi propaganda), go to the following site.
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https://www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/ >
The RAF and USAAF alternated with what their targets might be on any one day. The Dresden firestorm was the responsibility of the RAF on this occasion.
Official histories such as the above are very useful but tend to gloss-over the massacre of civilians and use euphemisms such as "aim and enemy morale" and "sow confusion" instead of "slaughter civilians".
The USAAF bombed rail yards in Dresden the day after the night of the firestorm, but they made up for not being in on the slaughter of civilians by ordering their fighter-bombers to straf the fleeing refugees.
Dresden Bombing guide summary:
http://www.ww2guide.com/west.shtml#dresden
>And BTW, the Nazi decision to build so many weapons production and other
>military production facilities within a city like Dresden was telling-
>-reminiscent of Saddam Hussein's and Iran's human shields programs.
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Please post a tabulation of the industrial facilities in Dresden together with their dates of construction, and in addition, the documentation of the minutes where 'the Nazis' decided on a policy of building those factories within Dresden for the reason that you have stated.
Do you seriously think for one moment that 'the Nazis' imagined that the Allies would fail to bomb any target in Germany for any reason, let alone something as flimsy as the proximity of sites of historic or cultural importance ?
Dresden did not contain much industry, which is why it was still relative intact at this time. However, the RAF did not aim at this industry. Their aim was to firestorm the city and slaughter all the civilians.
"It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed... I feel the need for more precise concentration upon military objectives ... rather than on mere acts of terror and wanton destruction, however impressive."
said by Winston Churchill 03-28-1945, memo to Chiefs of Staff Committee