Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) was a popular and critical success when it first appeared, and has had a notable impact on popular perceptions of "the bombing of Dresden," although it has been criticized by historians because of its inaccuracy. This article analyzes the novel'...
To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs. Bomb To add an excessive amount of chlorine to a pool when it has not been maintained properly. Bomb (especially with along, down, up etc.) To move at high speed. I was bombing down the road on my...
Contrary to the claims of the “Court Historians”, the Allied Terror-Bombing Campaign was not intended for the destruction military targets, as my previous post demonstrate, but rather, to “de-house” and to kill as many German civilians as possible. “Court Historians” are the intellectual ...
death toll is in Gaza, it is nowhere near the collateral damage the West allowed to occur in the fire-bombing of Hamburg and Dresden, and the atomic bombing of Japan in the Second World War, and this was deemed necessary to eradicate and defeat the nihilistic regimes of Germany and Japan...
The Bombing of Hiroshima: Facts & Aftermath from Chapter 19 / Lesson 10 25K On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Learn the historical background of this event, explore the Manhattan Project, discover why Hiroshima was chosen, and review the tum...
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with colleagues from Finland, Spain, and the UK, developed a computer model for the evolution of conflicts in collaborative environments and compared its predictions to the observed controversies surrounding the Wikipedia entries Dresden bombing, Japan, and Anarchism (Phys. Rev. Lett. (2013) 110, ...
Much like World War I, the Allies targeted German citizens to hasten the end of the conflict. The British and American forcesfirebombed the German city of Dresdenbecause it was one of Germany’s industrial capitals. The bombing destroyed the nation’s railways system, aircraft factories, and ot...
Image 1 of 8 from gallery of What’s Behind Europe’s Grandiose Rebuilding?. Dresden's Baroque Frauenkirche was destroyed by Allied bombing in 1945, only to be revived in the same form in 2005
Another anniversary of that historic day is upon us – the 61st of the greatest military operation of its kind in the history of warfare. This was the date when American, British and Canadian troops launched the greatest battle for freedom ever fought. They called it Operation Overlord, and...