The bombing of Dresden by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) between February 13th and 15th, 1945 remains one of the most controversial events of World War II, even after 60 years.
Although the Allies considered Dresden (the capital of the German state of Saxony) a military target, several historians regard Dresden more as a cultural landmark than anything else and assert that the number of civilians killed was excessive to a criminal degree.
According to British historian Frederick Taylor:
The destruction of Dresden has an epically tragic quality to it. It was a wonderfully beautiful city and a symbol of baroque humanism and all that was best in Germany. It also contained all of the worst from Germany during the Nazi period. In that sense it is an absolutely exemplary tragedy for the horrors of 20th Century warfare . . .
Günter Grass, the German novelist and Nobel laureate for literature, and Simon Jenkins, the former editor of The Times, have both referred to the Dresden bombing as a "war crime". The historian Max Hastings said in an article subtitled 'the Allied Bombing of Dresden': "I believe it is wrong to describe strategic bombing as a 'war crime', for this might be held to suggest some moral equivalence with the deeds of the Nazis. Bombing represented a sincere, albeit mistaken, attempt to bring about Germany's military defeat". Harald Jaehner, a German literary critic stated: "Look at the bombing of Dresden, which was really an assault on the civilian population."
Dr. Gregory H. Stanton, president of Genocide Watch, wrote, "The Nazi Holocaust was among the most evil genocides in history. But the Allies' firebombing of Dresden and nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were also war crimes - and as Leo Kuper and Eric Markusen have argued, also acts of genocide".
"<...>the Allies' firebombing of Dresden and nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were also war crimes - and <...> acts of genocide". By president of Genocide Watch, Dr. Gregory H. Stanton.
Still this is not an argument for you, Toad?
Sure, "deny, deny, deny".
Even when your nation crime are proved by whole world. You think you somewhat differ from Boroda in this case? :-) At least, Boroda and I would accept mass kiling by NKVD at Katyn if Russian/Poland court declare this.
And "destruction of Hiroshima was war crime and act of genocide" it`s just not for your mind...
Some of the critics of the bombing of Dresden argue that there should have been prosecutions brought against RAF Bomber Commander Arthur Harris, and even Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. These critics argue that if Japan and Germany had won the war, bombings like that of Dresden would certainly have been prosecuted as a war crime. They argue that bombing of German cities was intended as a deliberate strategy to terrorize the German people not only to win the war, but also in preparation for the post-war occupation. In fact, no alleged war crimes of the Allies were ever tried after World War II.
>>but also in preparation for the post-war occupation
And now we find a reason for US to kill Japan/German civilians. They want to occupate their land.
The purpose of the area bombing of cities was laid out in a British Air Staff paper, dated September 23, 1941:
The ultimate aim of an attack on a town area is to break the morale of the population which occupies it. To ensure this, we must achieve two things: first, we must make the town physically uninhabitable and, secondly, we must make the people conscious of constant personal danger. The immediate aim, is therefore, twofold, namely, to produce (i) destruction and (ii) fear of death.
So there main reason was just a terrorism! Allied forces used terroristic tactic! This was a planned massacre!
The bombing of Dresden, while it was one of the more devastating conventional attacks of the war, was part of a policy of leveling cities and breaking the civilian ability to resist. That destruction of civilian morale was the intent of area bombing is not under dispute: the doctrine of destroying civilian morale through bombing, an extension of Karl von Clausewitz who argued that total war's aim was to break the opponent's will, was also approved in principle by the American Joint Chiefs of Staff CCS 166/1/D, 21 January 1943, and formally inaugurated in June of 1943.
So that is the main reason for your ignorance! US was at war not with Germanian/Japan military (like Soviet forces), but with German/Japan PEOPLE!!!
All of civilian butchering by US force were PLANNED! Not by accident. That was an official tactic of US forces. And now YOU say something to ME about war crimes?!
