[crazydad]

Well Dresden is still a very controversial decision. It will always be one.. Did we really have to fire bomb that city? The war was over at that point. Dresden was terror bombing at a massive level. OK ducking. Flame away.

[dfwgator]

Goebbels asked for “Total War” and he got it!!!

[Tarpon]

No flames -- Your points are well taken, but no one could be sure ... and the NAZIs were tossing everyone they could find into the ovens ... So you want to call it? Churchill was adamant. London was reduced to rubble also. The war had to end, now.

The best course of action was decided to be to bomb the population, FDR acquiesced to Churchill's desire, so they did. No apologies necessary, none desired.

The exact same arguments could be made about nuking Japan. Was it necessary? In both cases, the outcomes were the same, the wars were ended.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Later writing shows it was nothing of the sort. Dresden was a major German transportation hub in the last days of the war and contained nearly 200 military installations and factories.

Also, the United States didn’t fire-bomb Dresden. The British did, however.

[exit82]

The bombing of Dresden was February 13-15, 1945.

The war was NOT over at that point.

Americans were dying daily, in large numbers , in ground combat.

The war would be fought until May 7, 1945.

When you are fighting every day in combat on the enemy’s home turf, three months is a lifetime.

And for many American soldiers, their lifetime ended in those three months.