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2008-03-23 Home Front: WoT

A Lesson From Dresden: 1945 to 2008

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Posted by tipper 2008-03-23 12:11|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 Dresden had no military installations or strategic value other than being a communications center.

I have read that Dresden was a center for optics and manufacturing, both items of military significance.

Posted by SteveS 2008-03-23 13:16|| 2008-03-23 13:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Dresden was also a warning to the Russians. I don't think it was a voluntary warning since Roosevelt was
still theoricly at the helm. After VE Day with Truam in cahrge there were a couple of large sacle air parades just to show the Russians some Allied air muscle.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-03-23 14:28|| 2008-03-23 14:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Those who showed the world how to do it at Guernica, Warsaw, Rotterdam, London, Coventry, have very little to cover themselves as victims when payback is given with interest.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-03-23 15:27|| 2008-03-23 15:27|| Front Page Top

#4 The Soviets requested Dresden be bombed. It was a major railroad marshaling point for troops and supplies going to the eastern front. Also by that time, the major activity of all cities was war production.

The British night area bombed with incendiaries and high explosives (to crack open the buildings). The Americans daylight bombed the railroad facilities with high explosives and incendiaries as well as area bombed when the railroads could not be identified. The firestorms burned most of the city.

The accepted death toll is 25-30,000. Some other cities suffered even more dead. The wild estimates like 200-300,000 dead was Nazi propaganda or postwar Communist black propaganda to turn the West Germans against the British and Americans. So shame on this author for propagating this lie. It was the "AIDS was invented by the Americans" of its day.

Posted by ed 2008-03-23 18:34|| 2008-03-23 18:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Good point Ed. As the other Burgers pointed out, this author clearly hasn't got a grasp on Dresden's own part (location- uses).

But let me be the first to say, "Mecca"?

Posted by Icerigger">Icerigger 2008-03-23 19:25|| 2008-03-23 19:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Icerigger' "Patience".

Posted by Spike Uniter 2008-03-23 23:30|| 2008-03-23 23:30|| Front Page Top

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