“You think the bombing of infrastructure has no military purpose?”
The war was over
Dresden had no military significance
The raid was specifically designed to kill as many civilians as possible
It might be a good idea for you to go find a forum with no historians and no Veterans on it so that your level of ignorance on the topic doesn’t grate on people.
As you have the same logic and mindset as those who join ISIS.
Seriously.
Then why didn’t the Germans declare Dresden an open City, announce that it was only full of civilians and they were evacuating. And no military activity would happen there?
And that’s utterly stupid to say the war was over in February 45, there was one heck of a lot of bitter fighting still to go. And it wasn’t going to end if you started pulling your punches. This is just Nazi sympathy porn, trying to deflect away from what they did in the east.
The war was not over.
The Germans didn’t surrender until the second week in May. And had Dresden and other transportation hubs not been totaled so completely the Nazis might have been able to hold out another month or so.
I have coffee five mornings a week with a bunch of Veterans at the VFW hall. We have two guys who fought in that war and who stayed in through Vietnam. One just turned 94 and the other is 96.
To you, more weeks or months of fighting is some esoteric point. These guys lived it.
Go back to DU, troll-boi.