While many remember the bombing of Dresden, which resulted in the deaths of 30,000 people, this programme uncovers the reasons behind the extensive Allied attacks on other German towns during the final stages of World War Two. Historians Martin Middlebrook and Professor Tami Biddle explore the fac...
Over the course of his reign old joe was 'responsible' for some 20 million deaths. Note: these statistics are from different sources, possibly are supposed to be the sam number I'm not really sure, this is all haphazardly off the top of memory, so if anyone knows these figures be...
The Dresden Bombing was a horrible thing. The RAF ignited the city, people burned to a crisp, and the city crumbled to the ground. The bombs were made of high explosives and toxic gas, about 35,000 civilians were killed in this attack. Below is a picture of the city before and 927 ...
bomb - throw bombs at or attack with bombs; "The Americans bombed Dresden" bombard attack, assail - launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with; "Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939 and started World War II"; "Serbian forces assailed Bosnian towns all ...
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 ...
rendering it essentially uninhabitable for those Palestinians who survive the ongoing rampage. In fact, early in its war of annihilation, Israeli leaderscitedthe Allied destruction of the German city of Dresden in 1945 in support of their own atrocious air and ground campaign against the Palestinians...
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
Bombing of Tokyo, (March 9–10, 1945), firebombing raid (codenamed “Operation Meetinghouse”) by theUnited Stateson thecapital of Japanduring the final stages ofWorld War II, often cited as one of the most destructive acts of war in history, more destructive than the bombing ofDresden,Hi...