Why Was Dresden So Heavily Bombed?

[AZrailwhale]

******* ridiculous...The B-17 couldn't carry it, and no B-29s were even conditionally deployed to Britain.

At least one B-29 was deployed to the UK during the war. But that doesn't affect the fact that the nukes were designed to be used against Germany.

 

[BackAgain]

Why Was Dresden So Heavily Bombed?​

Answer: maybe because we did not yet have the Atomic bomb?

 

[AZrailwhale]

The 21st century redefined the concept of terrorism but it was actually the agenda of the bombing campaign in Germany and Japan late in WW2. Keep killing civilians until the maniacs surrender. American planes (God bless 'em) gladly targeted defenseless civilians as long as they could get back to England without being shot down.

Wrong, the USAAF never bought into "Bomber" Harris' dehousing plan. It targeted strategic targets as much as was possible with WWII tech.

 

[AZrailwhale]

Is that the the justification? Do civilians always get targeted in wars? Lefties condemned the bombing campaigns allegedly directed on Vietnam civilians when Nixon was president but there was overwhelming support for the incineration of tens of thousands of Japanese civilians with two nuclear attacks to end the Pacific war during a democrat administration.

Civilians have always been targeted during wars, sieges ended with mass rapine and looting of the civilian population, armies supported themselves by looting civilian farms and towns.

 

[LA RAM FAN]

The bombing attack on Dresden, Germany, stands among the most controversial Allied actions of World War II. From February 13 to 15, 1945, 800 bombers dropped some 2,700 tons of explosives and incendiaries, decimating the German city. Tens of thousands died.

American prisoners of war had heard the “whump a whump” of distant aerial bombings many times before. But on February 13, 1945, they heard Dresden’s fire sirens howl right above their heads. German guards moved them two stories down into a meat locker. When they came back to the surface, “the city was gone,” remembered writer and social critic Kurt Vonnegut—one of the American POWs who witnessed the Dresden bombing.

Observers noted early on that the bombing of Dresden not only meant the death of civilians but the destruction of a center of European culture and Baroque splendor. Since the rule of August the Strong (1670-1733), the “German Florence” on the Elbe, was home to famous collections of art, porcelain, prints, scientific instruments and jewelry.

Many Germans perceived a particular injustice in the late bombing of Dresden in February 1945—a sentiment that gained some international traction in the postwar years. Dresden was a densely crowded city in the winter of 1945, filled with refugees fleeing the advancing Red Army. For most of them, the end of the war looked near and inevitable and a full-scale attack was unnecessary.

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why was it heavily bombed? because IKE and FDR were servants were mass murderers of civilains who served the gloabal elite thats why,thas why they were the best of pals with stalin who murdered 20 million civilians,Ike was such bddies with stalin he turned russian civlians away from europe and sent them back to the stalins gulags after trying to flee russia with the nwzis.

 

[LA RAM FAN]

Is that the the justification? Do civilians always get targeted in wars? Lefties condemned the bombing campaigns allegedly directed on Vietnam civilians when Nixon was president but there was overwhelming support for the incineration of tens of thousands of Japanese civilians with two nuclear attacks to end the Pacific war during a democrat administration.

love how REPUBLICAN whitehall dismisses cold hard facts of Nixon bombing civilians in vietnam saying ALLEGEDLY.comedy gold..if Nixon was a dem,he would not deny those pesky facts. he condemns Obama all the time but when you list FACTS he expanded bushs corruption,like clockwork,he runs off everytime.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

why was it heavily bombed? because IKE and FDR were servants were mass murderers of civilains who served the gloabal elite thats why,thas why they were the best of pals with stalin who murdered 20 million civilians,Ike was such bddies with stalin he turned russian civlians away from europe and sent them back to the stalins gulags after trying to flee russia with the nwzis.

The Germans blame Bomber Harris.

 

[Zebra]

The bombing attack on Dresden, Germany, stands among the most controversial Allied actions of World War II. From February 13 to 15, 1945, 800 bombers dropped some 2,700 tons of explosives and incendiaries, decimating the German city. Tens of thousands died.

American prisoners of war had heard the “whump a whump” of distant aerial bombings many times before. But on February 13, 1945, they heard Dresden’s fire sirens howl right above their heads. German guards moved them two stories down into a meat locker. When they came back to the surface, “the city was gone,” remembered writer and social critic Kurt Vonnegut—one of the American POWs who witnessed the Dresden bombing.

Observers noted early on that the bombing of Dresden not only meant the death of civilians but the destruction of a center of European culture and Baroque splendor. Since the rule of August the Strong (1670-1733), the “German Florence” on the Elbe, was home to famous collections of art, porcelain, prints, scientific instruments and jewelry.

Many Germans perceived a particular injustice in the late bombing of Dresden in February 1945—a sentiment that gained some international traction in the postwar years. Dresden was a densely crowded city in the winter of 1945, filled with refugees fleeing the advancing Red Army. For most of them, the end of the war looked near and inevitable and a full-scale attack was unnecessary.

Why Was Dresden So Heavily Bombed? | HISTORY

By the end of the three-day Allied bombing attack of World War II, the German city had been leveled and tens of thous...

www.history.com

you said that very well!

 

[Zebra]

Civilians have always been targeted during wars, sieges ended with mass rapine and looting of the civilian population, armies supported themselves by looting civilian farms and towns.

one atrocity does not excuse the other

 

[AZrailwhale]

one atrocity does not excuse the other

It was a justified military attack, NOT an atrocity. The bombings of Warsaw, Rotterdam and Guernica by Germany after being publicly declared "open cities" were atrocities. Unprovoked attacked against cities that were not even being defended was against the laws of warfare AND the Geneva Conventions. Dresden was heavily defended AND a military target.

 

[Zebra]

It was a justified military attack, NOT an atrocity. The bombings of Warsaw, Rotterdam and Guernica by Germany after being publicly declared "open cities" were atrocities. Unprovoked attacked against cities that were not even being defended was against the laws of warfare AND the Geneva Conventions. Dresden was heavily defended AND a military target.

it was an atrocity

 

[AZrailwhale]

No, the examples I posted were atrocities. If the Germans had declared Dresden an "open city" and not defended it, THEN it would have been an atrocity.

 

[Zebra]

The bombing attack on Dresden, Germany, stands among the most controversial Allied actions of World War II. From February 13 to 15, 1945, 800 bombers dropped some 2,700 tons of explosives and incendiaries, decimating the German city. Tens of thousands died.

American prisoners of war had heard the “whump a whump” of distant aerial bombings many times before. But on February 13, 1945, they heard Dresden’s fire sirens howl right above their heads. German guards moved them two stories down into a meat locker. When they came back to the surface, “the city was gone,” remembered writer and social critic Kurt Vonnegut—one of the American POWs who witnessed the Dresden bombing.

Observers noted early on that the bombing of Dresden not only meant the death of civilians but the destruction of a center of European culture and Baroque splendor. Since the rule of August the Strong (1670-1733), the “German Florence” on the Elbe, was home to famous collections of art, porcelain, prints, scientific instruments and jewelry.

Many Germans perceived a particular injustice in the late bombing of Dresden in February 1945—a sentiment that gained some international traction in the postwar years. Dresden was a densely crowded city in the winter of 1945, filled with refugees fleeing the advancing Red Army. For most of them, the end of the war looked near and inevitable and a full-scale attack was unnecessary.

Why Was Dresden So Heavily Bombed? | HISTORY

By the end of the three-day Allied bombing attack of World War II, the German city had been leveled and tens of thous...

www.history.com

 

[Zebra]

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

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

 

[ShahdagMountains]

it was an atrocity

Would you apply that word to the London Blitz? They were innocent civilians too.

Not to mention the world’s first long-range offensive missiles being launched on Britain; thankfully towards the end of the War.

 

[Zebra]

Would you apply that word to the London Blitz? They were innocent civilians too.

Not to mention the world’s first long-range offensive missiles being launched on Britain; thankfully towards the end of the War.

yes

 

[Oddball]

Would you apply that word to the London Blitz? They were innocent civilians too.

Not to mention the world’s first long-range offensive missiles being launched on Britain; thankfully towards the end of the War.

Absolutely....Especially so for the indiscriminate random bombings of the V weapons.

 

[whitehall]

Yes, you drank the anti-FDR Kool aid.

The entire FDR administration from a completely incoherent pre-war foreign policy to inviting the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor to locking up American citizens behind barbed wire and confiscating their property was a vat of kool aid promoted by the media.