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I will tell you the simple difference...if the Nazi regime had not risen to power (with the support of the German people at the time) and committed the agression and atrocities like it did at Ausschwitz and throughout Europe, the allies would NEVER have committed a bombing campaing like Dresden to break their will and defeat them.

We waged all out war to end what would have been a much more, continuing brutal reign of terror and killing world-wide had we not stopped it in the fashion that we did.

Actually now your glossing over history, as in a historical perspective your argument is just wrong. The problem with Dresden is that the Allies bombed a city full of refugees while at the same time not bombing the train lines to Auschwitz. I don't want to open a can of worms, because history is just that: history. However, what I need to point out is that one cannot really use Auschwitz as a justification for Dresden, because that is not how and why it happened.

Best to keep both apart: One way or the other way round.

Sorry...we disagree. I said that their (NAzi) agression against innocent countries and issues like Ausshwitz led to the total war that produced Dresden. I stand by that.

Also, the city of Dreden was not "just full of refugees". Many of what we call refugees now, were soldiers at the time being reprovisioned there. As has been pointed out on this thread, in February 1945 Dresden was a significant military target in the Eastern front and played in to rolling up both fronts by destroying the Nazis ability to move men and material between east and west.

It was a horrific fire strom that it produced that did kill many, many civilians...but it, once again, crushed the will of the population of the German people as well as their military.

It was a horrific result of the all out war World War II was...and in my estimation, it was a necessary punctuation on the will of the allies to crush the will and capability of a bitter and ruthless enemy and her people.