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	Bombing of Dresden
		Dresden had by this time become the main centre of communications for the defence of Germany on the southern half of the Eastern front and it was considered that a heavy air attack would disorganise these communications and also make Dresden useless as a controlling centre for the defence.
		Dresden was a center of cultural and architectural wonders, including the famous Zwinger Museum and Palace and the cathedral, the Frauenkirche.
		The Dresden briefing was only one of many that he routinely attended, and even before the crews left the ground he was troubled because of one notable omission from the routine.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWdresden.htm (2740 words)

	::The Bombing of Dresden::
		The bombing of Dresden in February 1945 has remained one of the more controversial aspects of World War Two.
		Dresden, a city unaffected by bombing up to that point in the war, lost many thousands of civilians in the firestorm that was created by the Allies.
		Therefore, Dresden was bombed to show the Russians the awesome power of the Allies and to act as a warning to them not to stray from the agreements they had made at the war conferences.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /bombing_of_dresden.htm (1013 words)

	Dresden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dresden lies on both banks of the river Elbe, mostly in the Dresden Elbe Valley Basin, with the further reaches of the eastern Ore Mountains to the south, the steep slope of the Lusatian granitic crust to the north and the Elbe Sandstone Mountains to the east at an altitude of about 113 meters.
		Dresden was not the only German city devastated by World War II bombing, but the British bombing of Dresden in 1945, ordered by Winston Churchill, is considered controversial by some historians of the war.
		Dresden Klotzsche Airport is the international airport of Dresden, located at the north-western outskirts of the town in the district of Klotzsche.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dresden (9749 words)

	Idaho Observer: The Dresden Bombing: An eyewitness account
		Dresden, the capital of Saxony, a centre of art, theatre, music, museums and university life, resplendent with graceful architecture -- a place of beauty with lakes and gardens -- was now completely destroyed.
		Elisabeth, who was a young woman of around 20 at the time of the Dresden bombing, has written memoirs for her children in which she describes what happened to her in Dresden.
		And finally, the Dresden firebombing ensured the substantial reduction of a massive sea of unwanted humanity, thereby greatly lessening the looming burden and problem of postwar resettlement and restructuring.
	proliberty.com /observer/20030402.htm (2547 words)

	For Those Interested in the Bombing of Dresden
		The Bombing of Dresden, Germany by Allied air forces on 13-14 February 1945 was and is still highly controversial.
		Dresden was bombed on the 13-14 February 1945.
		Dresden was considered to be one of the most beautiful cities in Europe because of its midieval architecture.
	www.angelfire.com /ky3/dresden4skool (469 words)

	Bombing of Dresden in World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Before the bombing, Dresden was regarded as a beautiful city and a cultural centre, and was sometimes known as Elbflorenz, or Florence on the Elbe.
		British historian Anthony Beevor wrote that Dresden was considered relatively safe, having been spared previous RAF night attacks, and that at the time of the raids there were up to 300,000 refugees in the city seeking sanctuary from the fighting on the Eastern Front.
		Dresden was the seventh largest German city and by far the largest unbombed built-up area left and thus was contributing to the defense of Germany itself.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II (8183 words)

	Shofar FTP Archives: places/germany/dresden/press/dresden.001
		The scenes of Dresden's terror were replayed in the novel Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, who witnessed the attack as a prisoner of war.
		But the Soviets pressured the Americans and British to bomb such cities in eastern Germany to wreck railway and road centres and hinder the movement of Nazi troops to the eastern front.
		Dresden had celebrated pre-Lenten Carnival on Feb. 13 and some corpses were still in costumes.
	search.nizkor.org /ftp.cgi?places/germany/dresden/press/dresden.001 (593 words)

	The WWII Dresden Holocaust - 'A Single Column Of Flame'
		Dresden was a hospital city for wounded soldiers.
		A flock of vultures escaped from the zoo and fattened on the carnage.
		Kurt Vonnegut was in Dresden when it was bombed in 1945, and wrote a famous anti-war novel, Slaughterhouse Five, in 1969.
	www.rense.com /general19/flame.htm (2035 words)

	Green Left - Issues: The bombing of Dresden
		Dresden was of no military significance in World War II and had few, if any, strategic targets of importance to the war effort.
		It’s full of refugees.’ We knew it hadn’t been seriously bombed in the war so we knew it was not an important military target, and we knew that the Russians were only 30 kilometres on the other side of it and moving fairly fast, and the Americans were 70 kilometres on this side.
		The fire bombing was motivated by one primary goal: as a warning to Russia and the fast advancing Red Army of the armed might of the US and British imperialist war machine.
	www.greenleft.org.au /2005/614/35449 (1175 words)

	Bombing of Dresden
		Many of the bombs were incendiaries, which are, as the Bomber Command Internet site reports, fire bombs constructed with magnesium that are dropped in clusters and spread over the drop site.
		Once Dresden came under Soviet control as part of East Germany, as Davidson mentions, the Soviets used the attack as evidence that democratic countries, especially the United States, were vicious war criminals (119).
		The attack on Dresden could not match the cruelties of the Nazi regime.Perhaps, the raid, as Anglican bishop Simon Barrington-Ward remarks, was a result of Hitler’s evil deeds spreading and causing everyone to respond with more evil(“Church”).
	www.meredith.edu /stones/newpage2.htm (944 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Germans mark bombing of Dresden
		A cross made out of medieval nails that was rescued from the roof of Coventry cathedral in England - after it was bombed by the Germans in 1940 - is being presented to the Bishop of Dresden in a gesture of reconciliation.
		Dresden's churches were to ring their bells to coincide with the moment the first bombs fell.
		But similar numbers of Dresden citizens protested at the far-right presence, and police were out in force to separate the two sides.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/4261263.stm (636 words)

	SPIEGEL Interview: "Dresden Bombing Is To Be Regretted Enormously" - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News
		The Feb. 13, 1945 bombing of Dresden by the British Royal Air Force has become a symbol for excessive, gratuitous violence on the part of the Allies during World War II.
		Conventional wisdom has long had it that the bombing of the cultural pearl in eastern Germany was gratuitous violence and an inhuman attempt to kill as many civilians as possible in a city that had little in the way of an armaments industry or strategic importance.
		Dresden was used throughout the Cold War as a cudgel to beat the West with.
	www.spiegel.de /international/0,1518,341239,00.html (2179 words)

	One Hand Clapping » Blog Archive » Dresden bombing “not unjustified”
		The bombing of Dresden began at night by the Royal Air Force and was continued by day by the 8th US Air Force.
		One aim of the bombing was to destroy hubs of lines of communication - roads and rail lines - that converged on the city.
		The fact that that the city of Dresden was almost destroyed with the loss of so many innocents not to mention the cultural and social destruction that robbed the next generations of so much is problematic at best.
	www.donaldsensing.com /?p=205 (2789 words)

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		The night Dresden was hit it was, according to Irving, ‘swollen to twice its peace-time population by the [massive] influx of refugees from the East, Allied and Russian prisoners of war, and thousands of forced labourers.’ Dresden had had a ‘permanent’ population of 650,000 and ‘hundreds of thousands of refugees’.
		In 1966 the Dresden pre-war population is figured at 630,000, in 1995 at 642,143.
		Dresden was undoubtedly hit in the early part of 1945 by a wave of refugees fleeing westwards from the advancing Red Army.
	www.holocaustdenialontrial.org /evidence/evans005.asp (19572 words)

	The bombing of Dresden
		Since the facts of the combined USAF and RAF raids on Dresden became known, mostly through the novel 'Slaughterhouse Five' by Kurt Vonnegut, there has been great controversy as to why this appalling raid was considered necessary.
		The city had no military targets to speak of, and it was known that it was packed with civilian refugees from the east.
		You can be sure that the horrible experiences of this night in Dresden led to confused dreams, sleepless nights and disturbed our souls, me and the rest of my farnily.
	timewitnesses.org /english/~lothar.html (951 words)

	The Bombing of Dresden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Today the bombing of Dresden is embedded in our collective consciousness not as the toppling blow to Nazi Germany but as one of history's cruelest wartime atrocities, a vicious and militarily unjustifiable act of vengeful retribution against a peaceful, beautiful, defenseless city somehow removed from the war-making machinery that had otherwise consumed all of Germany.
		What really happened at Dresden - both the facts of the events themselves and the reasons behind the remarkable legacy of propaganda that has left us in the dark about those events for nearly sixty years - is the subject of Frederick Taylor's groundbreaking study.
		Analyzes the motive for the aerial bombing in Dresden, Germany in 1945 and the events surrounding it.
	www.au.af.mil /au/aul/school/asbc/dresden.htm (408 words)

	The bombing of Dresden - Sean Hannity Discussion
		THE BOMBING of the city of Dresden during the 13th and 14th of February, 1945 is among the worst atrocities perpetrated against civilians in all human history.
		Among informed circles all over the world, the awareness of both the extent and the importance of what happened before the end of the war and during the succeeding years is growing.
		In Sweden, where the Committee is based, twice a year people gather who want to honor the dead, preserve their memory, and illuminate the importance of the past for the future (once to honor the dead of Dresden, once to honor the innocent victims of the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff).
	www.hannity.com /forum/showthread.php?t=55028 (872 words)

	Dresden marks bombing anniversary
		Ambassadors from the U.S. Russia, France and Britain, key allies in the Second World War, attended a wreath-laying ceremony Sunday marking the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Dresden.
		Far-right politicians, neo-Nazis and some historians call the bombing of Dresden mass murder, committed just three months before the end of the Second World War.
		In what could be their last gathering to remember the 1941 attacks on Pearl Harbor, a dwindling group of aging survivors laid wreaths under life preserver rings to honour their ships Thursday in Hawaii.
	www.cbc.ca /world/story/2005/02/13/dresden050213.html (1266 words)

	War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Archive - The Guardian: TRIPLE RAID ON DRESDEN - 3,600 British and U.S. airplanes launched over 650,000 incendiary bombs and hundreds of 8,000 lb.
		The pilots reported that smoke rose to a height of 15,000 feet.
		I do not predicate my satisfaction with the bombing of Dresden on a theory of collective guilt, but on the certitude of the actual guilt of a near-totality of the German people -- women, grandparents, non-combatants -- in a project of genocide at the time of the bombing: a well earned death sentence indeed."
	www.christusrex.org /www1/war/dresden-index.html (146 words)

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