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mahatmakanejeeves

(60,933 posts) Mon Feb 13, 2023, 07:58 AM Feb 2023

On February 13, 1945, the Allies begin firebombing Dresden.

Today in 1945, the Allies begin firebombing Dresden. 25,000 civilians perish in the inferno. "The moment has come when the question of bombing German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror should be reviewed," an uneasy Churchill will later write

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Thu Feb 13, 2020: Dresden Bombing. 13-15 February 1945

Sun Feb 15, 2015: Dresden was a civilian town with no military significance. Why did we burn its people?

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On February 13, 1945, the Allies begin firebombing Dresden. (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 OP

And then there is this... Joinfortmill Feb 2023 #1

Did the bombing kill the prisoners in that camp? 3Hotdogs Feb 2023 #4

Google is your friend. Here is a link. Joinfortmill Feb 2023 #6

Why did germany kill 6 million Jews. The Jungle 1 Feb 2023 #2

It was around 1975. I met a woman, around 45 years old. She was a kid who survived that bombing. 3Hotdogs Feb 2023 #3

War is hell. And that is the truth. Joinfortmill Feb 2023 #5

Slaughterhouse-Five HUAJIAO Feb 2023 #7

The war was in its final days, Nazi Germany was breathing its last gasps Chainfire Feb 2023 #8

My Dad was there when the camps were liberated... "It's all true", he said. Joinfortmill Feb 2023 #9

Are you implying that one action validates the other? Chainfire Feb 2023 #10

No. Joinfortmill Feb 2023 #11

Joinfortmill

(16,386 posts)

1. And then there is this...

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Feb 13, 2023, 08:30 AM

Feb 2023

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/ohrdruf-concentration-camp

What We Fought Against: Ohrdruf

'On April 4, 1945, the US 4th Armored Division and 89th Infantry Division of the Third US Army came face to face with the horrors of Nazi brutality. The men discovered Ohrdruf, a Nazi labor camp and a subcamp of the Buchenwald system.'

Note: There was also a concentration camp in Dresden named: Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp

3Hotdogs

(13,394 posts)

4. Did the bombing kill the prisoners in that camp?

Reply to Joinfortmill (Reply #1)

Mon Feb 13, 2023, 08:44 AM

Feb 2023

Joinfortmill

(16,386 posts)

6. Google is your friend. Here is a link.

Reply to 3Hotdogs (Reply #4)

Mon Feb 13, 2023, 09:09 AM

Feb 2023

https://www.gedenkstaette-flossenbuerg.de/en/history/satellite-camps/dresden-bernsdorf#:~:text=Disbanding%20of%20the%20camp%20%2F%20end,liberated%20on%20May%208%2C%201945.

The Jungle 1

(4,552 posts)

2. Why did germany kill 6 million Jews.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Feb 13, 2023, 08:43 AM

Feb 2023

Nothing stopped them from continued killing of Jews. The people of Germany knew.

3Hotdogs

(13,394 posts)

3. It was around 1975. I met a woman, around 45 years old. She was a kid who survived that bombing.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Feb 13, 2023, 08:43 AM

Feb 2023

She said little, other than that. Tears filled her eyes as she recalled the event in her mind.

I looked at her and could think of nothing to say.

Joinfortmill

(16,386 posts)

5. War is hell. And that is the truth.

Reply to 3Hotdogs (Reply #3)

Mon Feb 13, 2023, 09:06 AM

Feb 2023

HUAJIAO

(2,587 posts)

7. Slaughterhouse-Five

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Mon Feb 13, 2023, 09:27 AM

Feb 2023

Chainfire

(17,757 posts)

8. The war was in its final days, Nazi Germany was breathing its last gasps

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Feb 13, 2023, 11:55 AM

Feb 2023

Dresden was not a "military" target as much as a cultural center. It served no military purpose and the bombing was an act of wanton murder and destruction. Terror for terror's sake. Dresden was packed with refugees fleeing the Russians, mostly women and children. I believe that it was a war crime, and I am deeply ashamed that we did it.