[Pangaea]

Originally Posted by nat906 ↗

25 thousand killed is a very low estimate for a city that was chock full of refugees at that time from eastern Germany and elsewhere in Germany due to Russian pressure and allied bombing in other areas.Dresden was thought to be a safe area by German command for its historical buildings which turned out to be untrue sadly.as for the comment about degrees of burning s in Dresden as opposed to Hiroshima id say certain parts of Dresden were as bad we just haven't seen the pictures.people welded into the asphalt roads is pretty bad.

Very true. Casualties of the Axis in WWII are always underestimated. Histories are written by victors and no victors want themselves look bad

BTW, The Bombing of Tokyo wasn't referred the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. It was a different operation in Tokyo, named "Meetinghouse", launched by 334 B-29s with 1,665 tons of napalm on the night of March 9-10, 1945. (Seems I was wrong. According to the Wikipedia, those casualty numbers were only for one night)

It's a part of a series of firebombing raid started at the end of February, 1945. General Curtis LeMay planned them. Probably because he thought it would be a good idea since most Japanese buildings were made of wood and paper during that time. The direct casualties of the Operation Meetinghouse was actually greater than the atomic bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

[Pangaea]

Originally Posted by imi ↗

The bombing of London by the germans: 430 civilians were killed and 1600 seriously injured
The victims of bombing Dresden: 22,700–25,000 deaths

Slightly exaggerated revenge when the British declared war on the Germans

Well, isn't that the sucking part of a war? It's never an operation for an operation. If you pushed the start button of a human war, then you're gonna have to keep fighting until you win or you lose, no matter what it takes. We even invented the Mutual Assured Destruction doctrine as our national security policy -- a survival strategy that ends up with no survivors.

[K53]

The innocent suffer the most in war.

[imi]

Originally Posted by Pangaea ↗

Well, isn't that the sucking part of a war? It's never an operation for an operation. If you pushed the start button of a human war, then you're gonna have to keep fighting until you win or you lose, no matter what it takes. We even invented the Mutual Assured Destruction doctrine as our national security policy -- a survival strategy that ends up with no survivors.

Hitler had advocated from the outset a common coalitions with England in the beginnings but the brainwashed Brits are as usual again they attacked the Germans, like the First World War
So it's not Hitler declared war on England, England declared war on Hitler (like French)
The bombings of Dresden was a straight excessive war crime against german civilians

[imi]

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[darkdiddler]

Originally Posted by imi ↗

Hitler had advocated from the outset a common coalitions with England in the beginnings but the brainwashed Brits are as usual again they attacked the Germans, like the First World War
So it's not Hitler declared war on England, England declared war on Hitler (like French)
The bombings of Dresden was a straight excessive war crime against german civilians

[wickedlara]

Originally Posted by imi ↗

Hitler had advocated from the outset a common coalitions with England in the beginnings but the brainwashed Brits are as usual again they attacked the Germans, like the First World War
So it's not Hitler declared war on England, England declared war on Hitler (like French)
The bombings of Dresden was a straight excessive war crime against german civilians

Historic facts. The bombing had no strategic purpose. It was a sort of experiment or maybe a warning to Russia to consider in the upcoming Cold War. It is written about in Slaughter House 5.