Originally posted by effect2g@Jul 27 2005, 05:14 AM No matter how much it was postponed, it still happened. It could have easily been stopped by anyone with a brain who saw that Dresden had no military importance, but that just shows the allied high command lacked a working brain. But lets not forget Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it wasnt carpet bombing but tens of thousands of civilians died for the total destruction of minute military targets. [post=36940]Quoted post[/post] Shockjock, me thinks! <_< <_< <_< :ph34r: :ph34r:
Having just read the posts on the Japanese deserving the Atom Bomb, I noticed that there were a few references to Dresden and so I went digging. There's some good info on the thread and is worth a read about the bombing. Ron, if you read this, you might like to post your info on the Japanese thread in here, might be a more suitable resting place and your points made are extremely pertinent. This isnt an attempt to pour petrol on the flames but there's no harm in throwing up an old thread to let people read about it for themselves.
removed hy sapper.and i say to all dogooders about the bombing of dresden and any other german target, get real.the enemy did not consider any reason not to bomb civilians in europe. u.k. and any other unarmed population during the ww2.i was in the london blizt and the target was anyware and anyone.i cannot understand wy any consideration should be given to dresden or hamburg they were a target of war.not nise ,but as the french say.se la guerre.?io not certain thats spelt wright. but you understasnd,
What I find it interesting about the attack on Dresden is that it took so long to occur. How many other major German cities had escaped devastation by this time in the war? Both sides had long ago discarded the idea that civilian population centers were sacrosanct. An enemy city was fair game for any assault, no matter how minute its military value. By the standards of the day, it was probably considered just another somewhat overdue military operation, not the potential war crime that many present-day "historians" try to make it out to be.
What I find it interesting about the attack on Dresden is that it took so long to occur. How many other major German cities had escaped devastation by this time in the war? Both sides had long ago discarded the idea that civilian population centers were sacrosanct. An enemy city was fair game for any assault, no matter how minute its military value. By the standards of the day, it was probably considered just another somewhat overdue military operation, not the potential war crime that many present-day "historians" try to make it out to be. Probably just logistics, It's as far away as Berlin.
No matter how much it was postponed, it still happened. It could have easily been stopped by anyone with a brain who saw that Dresden had no military importance, but that just shows the allied high command lacked a working brain. But lets not forget Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it wasnt carpet bombing but tens of thousands of civilians died for the total destruction of minute military targets. Hundreds of ill advised infantry and armour attacks also occurred throughout the war, with appalling casualties in many cases. Be it incompetence, lack of intelligence, ego, poor preparations or a myriad of other reasons, it is the inherent nature of war that disastrous events are so common.
