Dresden 13-14.02.1945

[KrooK]

Today is another anniversary.

I'm thinking about bombing Dresden.
Was it right or wrong.
Beautiful medieval city, not important in war. Destroyed during one night.

And....
It was ok. Due to bombing typical "common German" suddenly realised what feel victim.
People who voted Adolf Hitler and helped him starting world war II finally understood what means war.
Race of Lords fallen on their knees under bombs - same like thousand years Reich.

For Coventry, for Warsaw...

[Fisherking]

The bombing of Dresden should have been considered a war crime. It was a deliberate attack on the civilian population and did not target any industrial or infrastructure that was of military value.

It should not be glorified or celebrated. It should be remembered as a crime against humanity.


I am no lover of the Nazis. They were brutal and disgusting. They came to power not be election but through intimidation. A large number of their party members joined so they could work, just as happened under communism.

Targeting the city center missed the rail yards and factories. It even missed the workers homes that worked in those places. It missed the AA units stationed around to defend the targets.

It did not miss refugee centers, shopkeepers, and the like. It managed to take out palaces churches and historical buildings as well as homes but it did no damage to military targets like factories, bridges, rail networks and so on.

Dresden was a refugee center. The Nazis were sending those fleeing the war in the east there. These were almost exclusively women with children. Volk Deutsch from Russia who’s husbands had been drafted into the Soviet Army and were set upon by the Russians for being Germans.

Assigning guilt to them because they spoke the same language is more than a small stretch.

These were who we killed. Not the people responsible for the war and other Nazi atrocities. Just more victims of the Nazi war.

Dresden was an attack on German Culture. It was revenge. But most of its victims were just people trying to escape what Hitler had started. It is not something any of us need to celebrate.

[drone]

So it goes.

[HopAlongBunny]

The human condition=The paradox of violence

Better minds have failed at the solution

[Fragony]

He isn't around here anymore, but my dear friend Tribesman once made a post that there was kinda more to it, it was pretty convincing. I don't remember the specifics but it was something with anti-aircraft and ammunition-depots if I remember correctly. That pain in the usually knew what he was talking about