Why Was Dresden So Heavily Bombed?

[Zebra]

I know the RAF created fire storms in dormitory towns and cities as a tactic. It's not exactly a secret.

True!

 

[Zebra]

That is easily the most fucking preposterous argument to rationalize that atrocity.

You don't terrorize and kill innocent civilian populations as "punishment" for war crimes.

Well said!

 

[expat500]

Goebbels, the "genius of spin, was busy inflating the numbers of civilian casualties. Rather like Hamas with Gaza.

 

[Zebra]

think of the Frauenkirche in Dresden!

 

[expat500]

That is easily the most fucking preposterous argument to rationalize that atrocity.

You don't terrorize and kill innocent civilian populations as "punishment" for war crimes.

It’s easy to say that, when not living in those times.

 

[Oddball]

Goebbels, the "genius of spin, was busy inflating the numbers of civilian casualties. Rather like Hamas with Gaza.

OK...Was the city a civilian center with negligible-to-zero strategic value?

Even a hack like Goebbels could make that story work for his side.

 

[Zebra]

btw …

do you know the Frauenkirche in Dresden?

 

[Oddball]

It’s easy to say that, when not living in those times.

It's easy to say that when the city in question has no military value.

 

[expat500]

think of the Frauenkirche in Dresden!

I’ve been to Dresden. Much Soviet style monstrosities.

Yet all the surrounds, lovely villas, were still intact.

 

[expat500]

btw …

do you know the Frauenkirche in Dresden?

Yes.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Harris' idea was that the destruction of German cities would: 1) create havoc with the loss of homes etc.; 2) erode manufacturing capability; 3) destroy the German morale.

 

[expat500]

It's easy to say that when the city in question has no military value.

I thought that, but….

It did though.

 

[Oddball]

I thought that, but….

It did though.

No, it didn't....No amount of whitewashing of history can change that.

Sometimes, "the god guys" do some really ghastly things.

 

[Zincwarrior]

I thought that, but….

It did though.

British Bomber Command believed that all German cities had value, if nothing else.

 

[expat500]

No, it didn't....No amount of whitewashing of history can change that.

Sometimes, "the god guys" do some really ghastly things.

So it was okay to blitz London, and flatten Coventry?

 

[Oddball]

So it was okay to blitz London, and flatten Coventry?

Areas of London had strategic military importance...The same cannot be said for Dresden.

Even taking the premise as legit, do two wrongs make a right?...aka whataboutism.

 

[Zebra]

what military value did the Frauenkirche have?

 

[expat500]

what military value did the Frauenkirche have?

Collateral damage. They didn’t have the precision targeting like they have today.

 

[braalian]

That is easily the most fucking preposterous argument to rationalize that atrocity.

You don't terrorize and kill innocent civilian populations as "punishment" for war crimes.

It was total war

A war Germany started

Why didn’t they surrender?

 

[cnm]

The idea was to wear down the civilian will of the Germans. Which it didn’t.

Ah. Area bombing.