Because this was a bombing run specifically designed to kill as many civilians as possible. It was brutal. And when you’re supposed to be the good guys...
In war there are no good guys and bad guys just winners and losers. To suggest otherwise is hopelessly naive.
Civilians beget soldiers.
This was a bombing designed specifically to make sure everything manufactured in Dresden wasn’t manufactured anymore and to ensure that Transportation of goods through the transportation hubs in Dresden didn’t move through there for as long as possible and because Germany had been bombing the living crap out of allied cities for so long nobody but enemy sympathizers cared about any German lives lost by that point.
But do go on with your little rant.
The book Hellstorm describes some of the many horrors and atrocities experienced by German civilians as WW2 drew to a close.
I am NOT apportioning or assigning blame, guilt, criminality, etc; I am simply promoting an avenue of information.
During an interview long after the war’s end, “Bomber” Harris was asked whether the fire bombing of Dresden was moral. He responded, “Name me one act of war which is “moral”. Is sticking a bayonet in an another man’s belly moral?” He makes the point, as did Gen. Sherman, that war is an anomie, a vacuum in which normal ethical standards do not exist, and no act of war can be justified as moral unless it shortens the war.