On the evening of February 13, 1945, a series of Allied firebombing raids begins against the German city of Dresden, reducing the “Florence of the Elbe” to rubble and flames, and killing roughly 25,000 people. Despite the horrendous scale of destruction, it arguably accomplished little strategically, since the Germans were already on the verge of surrender.
Among the conclusions reached at the February 1945 Yalta Conference of the Allied powers was the resolution that the Allies would engage in concerted strategic bombing raids against German cities known for war-production and manufacturing, in an effort to bring the Nazi war machine to a crashing halt. The tragic irony of the raid on Dresden, a medieval city renowned for its rich artistic and architectural treasures, is that during the war it had never been a site of war-production or major industry. Both Allies and Germans alike have argued over the real purpose of the firebombing; the ostensible “official” rationale was that Dresden was a major communications center and bombing it would hamper the German ability to convey messages to its army, which was battling Soviet forces at the time. But the extent of the destruction was, for many, disproportionate to the stated strategic goal—many believe that the attack was simply an attempt to punish the Germans and weaken their morale.
More than 3,400 tons of explosives were dropped on the city by 800 American and British aircraft. The firestorm created by the two days of bombing set the city burning for many more days, littering the streets with charred corpses, including many children. Eight square miles of the city was ruined, and the total body count was between 22,700 and 25,000 dead, according to a report published by the city of Dresden in 2010. The hospitals that were left standing could not handle the numbers of injured and burned, and mass burials became necessary.
Among the American POWs who were in Dresden during the raid was novelist Kurt Vonnegut, who conveyed his experience in his classic antiwar novel Slaughterhouse Five.
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Some people say that it was not needed, but did the Germans surrendered at this point? NO… they did not, they fought on for over two months…
History is a fabrication. Until you loose your mind to that reality … you cannot understand the level of manipulation that societies have been subjugated to. The Matrix was not as much fiction as it was a documentary.
The mass murder of hundreds of thousands of women and children refugees was not needed. If it had been necessary, the “high command” would not have needed to lie to the members of the bombardier squadrons , my father-in-law included, telling them that Dresden was a major weapons manufacturing and troop movement hub to get them revved up for genocide by incineration. That lie alone is proof that the fire bombing of Dresden was not needed .
BTW, did you know that the first incindennary bombs were dropped in the center of Dresden to draw masses of fire teams and volunteers to the middle of the city at which time they started firebombing the perimeter in order to trap and incinerate as many people as possible? Why was the murder of so many civilians premeditated and prioritized over the mere destruction of Dresden ? The Allied bombers met no resistance, and in fact the ” high command” already knew the war was over and had so for over a year. It was like they were deliberately trying to kill as many German civilians as they could before the clock ran out.
Matter of fact, the demons-in-charge masquerading as the “good guys” had already sacrificed thousands of young American men’s lives on the beaches of Normandy France in the unnecessary allied invasion we now know as D-Day juke 6, 1944, but peoples lives mean nothing to the agenda driven evil spirit that dominates TPTB as history of warfare and conquest will attest.
God will judge. I wouldn’t take the side of Stan if I were you.
OVERLORD: The Unnecessary Invasion
By
William F. Moore
Lieutenant Colonel, USAF
he massive allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944 was not necessary for the military defeat of Germany. The German Army had already been destroyed on the eastern front, and the German war industry was being devastated by the combined bombing offensive. According to Trumbull Higgins,
When the British were finally compelled by their Allies to invade France in 1944, it was an invasion essentially undertaken in the self-interest of the West, the terrible risk of the collapse of the Soviet Union having long since passed. At this date the Red Army no longer needed more than Western supplies with which to occupy eastern Europe. (4:283)
The Normandy invasion was simply too late to be of meaningful assistance to the Russians. In fact, Stalin had conceded that is was no longer necessary.
Furthermore, many capable allied strategists knew that OVERLORD was no longer required and recommended against it. Why were these recommendations not heeded, especially since they would have resulted in greatly reduced British and American casualties? Two considerations cannot be ignored. First was the sheer momentum behind the OVERLORD planning. American planners had placed all their European “eggs” in this basket, they had been advocating OVERLORD against the British for over two years, and they were unwilling to concede to the British position in late 1943. Secondly, American leaders, including Roosevelt, felt that unless American forces took a significant (albeit late) share in defeating the German Army, the Russians would be entirely uncooperative in the post-war world and probably would
https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/NoOverlord/index.html
Although quite brief, this is one of the best archival footages of the Dresden bombing.
Colorized here
About 1994, I took the train north to Dresden, and bough a
used Suzuki Swift far a very good price. After picking the car up,
I drove through the city. Some of it was on display with spotlights,
but the old buildings, in many cases, were almost untouched.
There was still an eery feeling in the air. When you looked closer,
the stone in the buildings had a glassy brown surface, where the
incendiaries and the firestorm melted the surface into a ceramic glaze.
It had a weird enough feeling being there, that I would never choose
to live there.
BEFORE
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AFTER
Bankers in Switzerland slept soundly that night ….
The banking cartel headquartered in the City of London was never decimated and slept well before, during, and after the war.
Dresden was fire-bombed to show Stalin that, although the Soviets had ground superiority, the Allies had air superiority, and the more of Europe the Soviets captured the closer they came to brutal Allied airpower.
Stalin got the message.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/53000.htm
Absolute nonsense. Bombing campaigns never won a war and the Soviet Union could give a rats ass what the allies thought. They owned them too.
Soviet Union Takes Over Eastern Europe After World War II
After World War II, the Soviet Union extended its control into Eastern Europe. It took over the governments in Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, East Germany, Poland, Romania and Yugoslavia. Only Greece and occupied Austria remained free. The Baltic countries—Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania—were made into republics. Even Finland was partly controlled by the Soviets. The Communist Party was also strong in Italy and France.
After World War II, Russia took a large portion of Poland and Poland in return was given a large portion of Germany. It was if the entire country of Poland was slid across the earth to the west. Only since reunification has Germany renounced their claim on the land that was formerly theirs. The Allies allowed the Soviet Union to annex Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia in a process that took place mostly at the outset of the war.
The Soviet Union also began exerting its influence in Asia. Outer Mongolia became the first Communist regime outside of the Soviet Union in 1945 when it taken over by a Soviet puppet government. China became Communist in 1949.
http://factsanddetails.com/russia/History/sub9_1e/entry-4975.html
Germans paid a high price for fire bombing London. ..The USA became the USSA in 2021 and the American communist will pay a high price for every Evil they do to US Deplorabes….
How many cites, towns, and villages did the Germans raze between 1936 and 1945….including their own as Der Fruher ordered anything of value to be destroyed since the German people were unworthy of continuing as ‘they’ lost the war?
brit & american bomb designers traveled to wisconsin to study the aftermath of a huge wildfire that had skipped across miles of terrain & caused untold amounts of death/destruction–
whatever the reason 4 dropping the bombs,the destruction was deliberate–
Perhaps the opinions of some of those killed in the nightly bombing raids on London earlier in the war should be considered?
War is hell, especially when you start it and then it turns on you.
Ain’t dat da truff. Revisionist, apologists post WWI, is what led to the resurgence of Prussian war mongering in WWII.