[Count of Monte Fisto]

The firebombing of Dresden was a war crime. It was a massacre, wanton annihilation in the vein of Attila the Hun. This “It was war” excuse is unmitigated BS like this whole WWII was a good war. It can’t be a good war when the war was prosecuted by that effete Communist FDR, the USA’s closest ally was the blood-soaked Soviet Union, and when the war was over Communism spread over half the world. Uncle Joe Stalin won WWII and the USA helped him do it. America is paying for it now as the Communists complete their takeover here.

[agere_contra]

You're missing out on historical facts.

Dresden was a major rail nexus

Dresden was Germany's seventh-largest city and the largest remaining unbombed built-up area.

An official 1942 guide to the city described it as "one of the foremost industrial locations of the Reich".

As late as 1944 the German Army High Command's Weapons Office listed 127 medium-to-large factories and workshops that were supplying the Wehrmacht with war materiel.

Dresden was a military target - moreover it was the best target for night-time bombers that existed at that stage of the war.

Bombing it was in no sense a war crime.