Firebombing of Dresden

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On the evening of February 13, 1945, a series of Allied firebombing raids begins against the German city of Dresden, reducing the “Florence of the Elbe” to rubble and flames, and killing as many as 135,000 people. It was the single most destructive bombing of the war—including Hiroshima and Nagasaki—and all the more horrendous because little, if anything, was accomplished strategically, since the Germans were already on the verge of surrender.  

Among the conclusions reached at the February 1945 Yalta Conference of the Allied powers was the resolution that the Allies would engage in concerted strategic bombing raids against German cities known for war-production and manufacturing, in an effort to bring the Nazi war machine to a crashing halt. The tragic irony of the raid on Dresden, a medieval city renowned for its rich artistic and architectural treasures, is that during the war it had never been a site of war-production or major industry. Both Allies and Germans alike have argued over the real purpose of the firebombing; the ostensible “official” rationale was that Dresden was a major communications center and bombing it would hamper the German ability to convey messages to its army, which was battling Soviet forces at the time. But the extent of the destruction was, for many, disproportionate to the stated strategic goal—many believe that the attack was simply an attempt to punish the Germans and weaken their morale.

More than 3,400 tons of explosives were dropped on the city by 800 American and British aircraft. The firestorm created by the two days of bombing set the city burning for many more days, littering the streets with charred corpses, including many children. Eight square miles of the city was ruined, and the total body count was between 35,000 and 135,000 (an approximation is all that was possible given that the city was filled with many refugees from farther east). The hospitals that were left standing could not handle the numbers of injured and burned, and mass burials became necessary.

Among the American POWs who were in Dresden during the raid was novelist Kurt Vonnegut, who conveyed his experience in his classic antiwar novel Slaughterhouse Five.

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11 thoughts on “Firebombing of Dresden

  1. It is with a heavy heart that I shake my head in disgust of the inhumanity to man that occurred in Dresden. It was despicable. The Germans were on the verge of surrender, for that matter, so were the Japanese when we tested a couple of our new toys on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. All for mom, apple pie, and everything that is good and wholesome. We might has well have bombed all of the art world in Italy but we reserved that honor for the jewel of Germany. It is unforgivable.

    1. Agreed on all counts.

      For the past 20 years or more the US has had its collective panties in a wad about what it calls “terrorism,” but the Dresden firebombing and the nuking of Japan were both acts of REAL terrorism.

      I know the Nazis and Japs weren’t exactly saints, but nothing can ever justify that kind of random violence against civilians. Just think about all the children, pregnant women, and others who perished in those atrocities. Anyone who attempts to justify those acts, ESPECIALLY by claiming they “saved the lives of US soldiers,” is a piece of dogsh!t. Killing civilians to spare the lives of soldiers is immoral, cowardly, and dishonorable.

      1. You might feel a little different if you had family involved in the fighting. I had my father and three uncles involved in both fronts. Two of the four came back seriously wounded. On that count, I don’t mind being equated as a piece of dogshit.

        1. I’ll stack my family up against yours in WWII. My mother’s two first cousins, brothers, enlisted in Oregon and went through the Bataan Death March. My father’s older brother also was on Bataan. He was killed there. His older brother and uncle enlisted from NM. His uncle was captured by the Japanese and put on a ship with 250 other captured American’s. The U.S. sunk the ship and all perished. My dad’s first cousin, also from NM, was also on the Bataan Death March.

          Read a book called Hellstorm. The Germans were made to suffer beyond anything imaginable. Our leaders murdered millions of Germans after the war because they didn’t think enough had been killed. The Jews have lied about WWII to all American’s. There was no holocaust. They asked for I believe it was Auschwitz to be built due to the bombings in the cities where they lived. I would like to think my family wouldn’t have endorsed murder.

  2. That was the REAL holocaust, and I’m surprised the History Channel is actually willing to tell people about it.

    1. I suspect Millard is right: for the History Channel and many of its fans, watching those mass murders is probably torture porn along the lines of Inglorious Basterds.

  3. Lord Harris should have been hanged.

    The enemy we are facing seem to like fire. Always the same Luciferian sacrament. Dresden was a refuge city with no military value whatsoever. They just wanted to kill as many christian Germans as possible.

    Here is the rub. This is what they did to another country.US government helped in this to be fair. What do you think they are willing to do to us all? look at your loved ones and know that they are all under threat from these monsters in human form.

  4. Get it straight……stop talking about the U.S. government. There is no U.S. government. There is only Jew occupation govt. dressed in the American flag. The two world wars were about genociding Christian Europe and particularly the German race. The jewish holocaust is lying hollywoodbullshit and not even good bullshit. It covers up the real genocide that took place against US.

  5. Eisenhower has the blood of millions on his hands, as does Churchill and Stalin. They lied to the British and American soldiers to get them to bomb Dresden. They said if they didn’t lie, the soldiers wouldn’t have killed the innocent. Dresden was a hospital city and our wounded were also burned in their hospital beds. We killed our own to satisfy the lust of the devil and his people, the Jews. Anyone who supports a Jew or Israel is complicate in their crimes, whether it be killing an innocent Palestinian child or burning German’s in Dresden.

    1. Hi Pioneer,

      Yes,.. and Eisenhower, for carrying out his orders (the “Morgenthau Policy”) to exterminate the Christian Germans from the Zionist-jews running this country,… was rewarded with the US Presidency.

      The “policy” of destroying Christendom was around long before WW2, but grasp of our financial, political, legal and technological systems gave the Zionist-jews a capacity to express their hatred of all things good that is without parallel in WW1, WW2,… and this very moment.

      Many do not realize that after the initial deaths of the Black-Death in central Europe (circa 1350’s), Christians, especially Germanic Christians believed their punishments from heaven were for allowing the scourge of jews among them, and so began an extermination of jews from Christian Europe by holocaust,.. fire. No where was this carried out more effectively then in Germania, for which the surviving jews SWORE a blood oath to eventually repay all Christendom with destruction by fire also,… Dresden just being one small example of their lust to order wanton murder of the innocent.

      It was thru their descendants and secret jew societies (one of which surfaced as,.. “Zionism”), that they have done their best to savage and destroy Christians, and all mankind by killing and reducing all others to abject slavery.

      JD – US Marines – The attempted eradication of jews from medieval Europe is simply their excuse, as they have been a parasite on every society they have ever infected since records of their existence have been found.

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