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Into the inferno: Families boiled alive as they hid in water tanks and fleeing survivors trapped in molten tarmac... 75 years on, the most horrifically vivid account you'll ever read of the Allied bombing of Dresden – by a British PoW who saw it all
UK Daily Mail ^
| February 12, 2020
| Victor Gregg and Risk Stroud
Posted on 02/13/2020 7:17:08 AM PST by C19fan
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Except for perhaps the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Dresden is perhaps the most controversial bombing raid of World War II.
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posted on
02/13/2020 7:17:08 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
What do y’all think if Slaughrhouse Five?
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posted on
02/13/2020 7:18:52 AM PST
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: C19fan
Billy Pilgrim was there. Schlacthauf funf.
To: C19fan
“Except for perhaps the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Dresden is perhaps the most controversial bombing raid of World War II.”
I always thought it was a response to Coventry.
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posted on
02/13/2020 7:20:09 AM PST
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: C19fan
If the Germans had won the war, this would be exhibit A for war crimes against allied generals.
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posted on
02/13/2020 7:20:13 AM PST
by
2banana
(My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
To: All
Read other reports bomber crews could smell the cooked bodies.
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posted on
02/13/2020 7:21:00 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
At least one historian of the war has stated the fire bombings of the German cities were unnecessary and were carried out at the insistence of a particular British officer who had a rather maniacal desire to destroy the German people.
I would accept it as justified if it definitely shortened that war.
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posted on
02/13/2020 7:21:49 AM PST
by
Williams
(Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
To: C19fan
Even more true of the fire-bombing of Tokyo.
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posted on
02/13/2020 7:22:13 AM PST
by
M1903A1
("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress")
To: C19fan
Yep.
For the people who believe that the war should be lost if fighting meant retaliation in kind for the bombing of allied infrastructure in order to survive and win its controversial.
For people who have studied war enough to comprehend the logistics portion of War its just another inevitable consequence of starting wars which leaders and bureaucrats should be aware of when they launch wars.
I don’t have the lack of education which is an absolute requirement to consider this “controversial.”
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posted on
02/13/2020 7:23:56 AM PST
by
MrEdd
(Caveat Emptor)
To: 2banana
Dresden was hell. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were hell. War is hell. The Axis powers started that war and we finished it. Why is there controversy?
To: C19fan
Except for perhaps the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Dresden is perhaps the most LIFESAVING bombing raid of World War II.
Fixed it for you.
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posted on
02/13/2020 7:24:58 AM PST
by
Badboo
(Why it is important)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
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posted on
02/13/2020 7:25:34 AM PST
by
freefdny
To: C19fan
Starting a war has consequences. Sometimes unbearably horrible consequences. Theres a lesson in there somewhere...
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posted on
02/13/2020 7:26:28 AM PST
by
LIConFem
(I will no longer accept the things I cannot change. it's time to change the things I cannot acce)
To: ifinnegan
Haven’t read it. Keep meaning to.
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posted on
02/13/2020 7:27:36 AM PST
by
null and void
(The democrats just can't get over the fact that they lost an election they themselves rigged!)
To: C19fan
War really is hell for some. But it needs to be remembered that the Dresden attack was retaliation for the Nazi’s brutal attack on Coventry on the 14 Nov 1940. The Nazi’s had no regrets about the raid and deaths caused in Coventry. Only free peoples of nations like the UK and USA have feelings of guilt, remorse, and self-loathing for events that take place in time of unfettered war. Just my $.02
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posted on
02/13/2020 7:27:44 AM PST
by
Afterguard
(Deplorable me!)
To: Dilbert San Diego
You think directly targeting and killing innocent people, with no military purpose, is OK?
You are no better than ISIS.
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posted on
02/13/2020 7:27:59 AM PST
by
2banana
(My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
Comment #17 Removed by Moderator
To: Williams
Heard similar reports, but the responsible person was named Winston.
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posted on
02/13/2020 7:29:24 AM PST
by
Michael.SF.
(Youth, speed and energy can always be overcome with experience and treachery.)
To: 2banana
[If the Germans had won the war, this would be exhibit A for war crimes against allied generals.]
If the Germans had won the war, they would have executed the entire Allied high command, as well as every single Allied soldier. War crimes laws are a joke - an attempt by lawyers distant from the battlefield to preen and give themselves a more prominent role in history than the soldiers who actually risked their lives and died in droves.
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posted on
02/13/2020 7:29:34 AM PST
by
Zhang Fei
(My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
To: Badboo
My dad was on Okinawa, preparing for a land invasion of the Japanese islands.
I wonder if I would even be here without Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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posted on
02/13/2020 7:29:53 AM PST
by
null and void
(The democrats just can't get over the fact that they lost an election they themselves rigged!)
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