"Ich frage euch: Wollt ihr den totalen Krieg?"
They said, "Ja!" and they got it!
Will there be fireworks?....................
Boo-hoo—Screw with the bull and you get the horn.
Not a single mention of Hitler in the article.
Dresden was a not so subtle warning to the Soviets. It was a way of making sure that they stopped where they said that they would and did not try to “march to the Atlantic”.
Nazis deserved 5 nukes in each Third Reich city.
"WE SEEM TO LIVE IN A WORLD THAT SAYS OF DRESDEN “NEVER AGAIN,” BUT ISN’T SO SURE ABOUT AUSCHWITZ: The Firebombing Of Dresden, 70 Years Later.
The Nazis opened a can of whoop-ass, and this is one of the things that came out. The world would be a safer place if their modern-day equivalents
The firebombing of Dresden was a war crime whose only purpose was to terrorize civilians, as Churchill himself admitted at the time, in a memo putting an end to the practice as “ineffective”.
Light a candle for the bomber crews that were lost..
maybe two or three..
"Ich frage euch: Wollt ihr den totalen Krieg?"
They said, "Ja!" and they got it!
Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
That's below even the usual low end of the range. Brits must still be uncomfortable with their war crimes.
War is harsh, but the folks who start it can't really complain when what goes around comes around.
I was taught it was retaliation for Germany firebombing Coventry, Britain’s most perfectly preserved medieval city.
May I remind you that our own holocaust is significantly larger and has gone on significantly longer than the one perpetrated by the Nazis...What have we done about it? Not enough. Not nearly enough.
This attack was VERY SpiteFul!There was Nothing Strategic in Dresden,but a huge amount of refugees fleeing the oncoming Russkies!!!Dresden will ALWAYS be a Black Mark on The Allied War Effort!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Screw the Germans. It was they who elevated Hitler, and they got what goes with that.
It was.
Dresden was the last remaining intact major transport hub in Germany at the time it was attacked. Frederick Taylor's excellent 2005 book on this subject details war production and communications work which was going on that made much of the city in fact a military target.
A lot of the controversy after the war was actually stirred up by the Soviets and East Germans to discredit the West during the Cold War, including a dramatic inflation of the death toll. While horrible, it was nowhere near what the Soviets claimed after the war.
I guess it’s OK to remember it. But I won’t feel bad about it.
We are going to have these “memorials” through August. The firebombing in Japan started in March of ‘45. So get your hankies out.
War sucks.
The article has a picture of the Church of Our Lady some time after the bombing. I’m told that the pile of rubble sat there through the entire Soviet era. After reunification, the church was rebuild, as seen in the second picture, and anywhere they could use one of the original bricks, they did. It’s very striking. A number of the old bricks have shrapnel scars.
The whole old town area around the Church of Our Lady is a beautiful area today. Spent many great evenings there dining and drinking and enjoying the rebirth of the area. It’s an interesting experience sitting in the history that is Dresden.
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