Although Coventry Suffered a Lot in the Blitz Raid of 1940, It Can't Be Compared to the 25,000 Who Died in the Bombing of Dresden; Yourtravels PETER Surtees, of Sutton Avenue, Eastern Green, Recalls His 1993 Trip to Coventry's Twin City of Dresden Where He Saw an Unforgettable ...
Arthur Harris now devised Operation Thunderclap, an air raid that would finally break the morale of the German people. To enable maximum impact to take place Harris chose Dresden as his target. This medieval city had not been attacked during the war and was virtually undefended by anti-...
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Also the Nazi’s have been killing innocent Jews and other groups of people the entire war. Finally Dresden was being used as an industrial city. This would be a factor of why the bombing would be ok because the allies had to destroy the place where the Nazis built their weapons. The ...
The death toll at Dresden has been, over the years, a matter of extensive and emotional debate. The number of refugees in the city and the confusion following the devastating raids have added to the difficulty of establishing a final figure. The claim of up to 250,000 casualties made by ...
JOHN SADLER on the debate over one of the most controversial events of the Second World War - the bombing of Dresden - and its relevance today Surely, rather than occupying Iraq once again, it would be more effective for Nato to provide air cover and special forces to guide their precision...
It has been 75 years since an Allied firebombing campaign, mostly led by the British, reduced the German city of Dresden to rubble. The resulting chaos and destruction took the lives of 25,000 Germans and left most of the city uninhabitable. It was a stu
Recent attacks on Berlin, Dresden and Chemnitz had been directed at the refugees swarming into these cities and were part of this policy. I cannot help feeling that the price, political and moral, we shall have to pay for all this will be a grievous one. We rang up the Ministry of ...
Bombing of Dresden, during World War II, Allied bombing raids on February 13–15, 1945, that almost completely destroyed the German city of Dresden. The raids became a symbol of the ‘terror bombing’ campaign against Germany, which was one of the most c
s near destruction and that the city could have been spared, likeRome,Paris, andKyōto. Given the high number of civilian casualties and the relatively few strategic targets, some even called the bombing of Dresden awar crime, though both the British and the American militaries defended the ...