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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)

	Bombing of Dresden in World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The firebombing campaign was supposed to begin with an USAAF Eighth Air Force raid on Dresden on February 13 but bad weather over Europe prevented any American operations.
		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.
		The absence of a direct military presence in the centre of the city, and the devastation known to be caused by firebombing, is regarded by supporters of the war crime position as establishing their case on a prima facie basis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II (7270 words)

	The WWII Dresden Holocaust - 'A Single Column Of Flame'
		One squadron of planes had been stationed in Dresden for awhile, but the Luftwaffe decided to move the aircraft to another area where they would be of use.
		Dresden was a hospital city for wounded soldiers.
		A flock of vultures escaped from the zoo and fattened on the carnage.
	www.rense.com /general19/flame.htm (2035 words)

	Nationalist Party USA - Building a Better America
		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.
		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.
		Without the existence of any military justification for such an onslaught on helpless people, the Dresden firebombing can only be viewed as a hideous crime against humanity, waiting silently and invisibly for justice, for resolution and for healing in the collective psyches of the victims and the perpetrators.
	www.nationalistpartyusa.org /Holocaust_At_Dresden.htm (2653 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 14 \| 1945: Thousands of bombs destroy Dresden
		As soon as one part of the city was alight, the bombers went for another until the whole of Dresden was ablaze.
		Dresden is regarded by the Allies as the centre of its rail network linking eastern and southern Germany with Berlin, Prague and Vienna.
		With the city's population swollen from refugees fleeing the Soviet advance from the east, the death toll from fire and suffocation is unknown, but probably lies between 25,000 and 100,000.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/14/newsid_3549000/3549905.stm (484 words)

	United for Peace of Pierce County, WA - We nonviolently oppose the reliance on unilateral military actions rather than ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		An architectural masterpiece that attested to Dresden's wealth and Lutheran faith when it was completed in 1743, the church later served as an international emblem of the destruction of war.
		The British-based Dresden Trust raised 1.5 million euros and Queen Elizabeth and Britain provided a new orb and cross, crafted by the son of a British airman who took part in the bombing, for the top of the dome.
		To the people of Dresden, they were a painful reminder of their city's lost glory as the baroque "Florence of the Elbe" and the bombing horror.
	www.ufppc.org /content/view/3562/2 (1700 words)

	Church rises from Dresden ruins \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		DRESDEN, Germany – Dresden crowned its rebuilt Frauenkirche with a British-made gilded orb and cross yesterday, a landmark step in the restoration of the famed 18th century church that was destroyed by Allied firebombing in 1945.
		The church's "destruction in that inferno that afflicted Dresden in February 1945 was a tragedy," he said.
		The orb and cross are replicas of the ones that graced the church and the Dresden skyline until the Feb. 13-14 raid.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040623/news_1n23dresden.html (410 words)

	village voice > news > James Ridgeway's War Log by (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Dresden was firebombed by the British Royal Air Force and U.S. planes near the end of the war, February 13-15, 1945.
		The firebombing involved first dropping massive bombs to expose the timbers of houses and then dumping incendiary devices called "fire sticks" on top of them to set them on fire.
		Vonnegut had been captured in the Battle of the Bulge and was near Dresden when the firebombing occurred.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0313/ridgewar4.php (513 words)

	Arthur "Bomber" Harris & firebomb of Dresden - History Forum
		Dresden had no strategic value in terms of targets and was practically undefended by anti-aircraft guns, and the Luftwaffe was unable to defend the city.
		Dresden was considered a railway hub that would facilitate the troop relocation.
		The horrors of the Dresden firebombing were used as propaganda not only by the Germans during the war, but also by the Soviets after the war to promote anti U.S. and British feelings among the East Germans people.
	www.simaqianstudio.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=4412 (3249 words)

	UCOG: Firebombing of Dresden remembered
		At a commemorative ceremony in Dresden, the city's mayor and the governor of Saxony ["Sachsen"] placed wreaths at the city's monument to honor those who died in the attack.
		In an article published in the "Stuttgarter Nachrichten", Dresden mayor Ingolf Roßberg rejected the idea that Dresden, the only large city in Germany that had not suffered major damage from Allied bombing by 1945, had no strategic value as a target.
		German chancellor Gerhard Schröder used the anniversary to criticize the fact that 60 years after the end of the war the "guilt and responsibility of Nazi Germany for the start of the 2nd World War [and] for destruction and terror" is being denied.
	www.ucog.org /news.php?strArticle=NEWS/2005-02-14.htm (412 words)

	SparkNotes: Slaughterhouse-Five: Character List
		Vonnegut himself was a prisoner of war during the firebombing of Dresden, and he periodically inserts himself in the narrative, as when he becomes the incontinent soldier in the latrine in the German prison camp.
		Following the firebombing, Derby is sentenced to die by firing squad for plundering a teapot from the wreckage.
		Rumfoord’s reluctance to believe that Billy was present during the Dresden raid embodies the bureaucratic attitude that seeks to glorify the war and its heroes instead of realistically portraying war’s destructiveness and its haphazard selection of survivors.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/slaughter/characters.html (1365 words)

	Young Germany: Dresden: The heart of Silicon Saxony
		All but destroyed in the firebombing so well-chronicled by the recently departed Kurt Vonnegut in his novel, “Slaughterhouse Five”, Dresden is once again returning to its pre-War magnificence.
		Dresden’s centuries- old reputation as an artistic hub is supported by a dance, visual arts and musical college well-respected across the country.
		Dresden is a serious college town, and the TU its main attraction.
	www.young-germany.de /dresden0.html (1013 words)

	billingsgazette.com
		DRESDEN, Germany - When the air raid sirens sounded in Dresden on Feb. 13, 1945, Rudi Warnatsch's family went wearily to the basement, hoping it was just another false alarm.
		Twelve members of the far-right National Democratic Party walked out of the regional legislature in Dresden rather than observe a minute's silence for those who died at the Auschwitz concentration camp, with one saying that Britain and the United States committed a "bombing Holocaust." Far-right activists plan a march in Dresden on the anniversary.
		Instead of being an "open city," not to be bombed as some still believe, it had war-related industries and remained a rail hub for German reinforcements heading east to fight approaching Soviet forces.
	www.billingsgazette.com /index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/02/13/build/world/55-dresden-firebombing.inc (974 words)

	Idaho Observer: The Dresden Bombing: An eyewitness account
		It is from the memories of common people who survived the Dresden Bombing of February 13-14, 1945, that we can understand why somewhere between 130,000 and 300,000 common people had to die.
		We knew Edda had been born in Estonia in 1943 and had been transported in a wagon by her mother and grandmother all the way to Germany as they fled their country ahead of the Russians (who had established a pattern of murdering and brutalizing Estonians for centuries).
		Edda wrote a 3,900-word surviver account of Dresden that can be found in the April edition of Current Concerns (www.currentconcerns.ch).
	proliberty.com /observer/20030402.htm (2547 words)

	A Bio. of America: World War II - Transcript
		Perhaps the most senseless Allied act of the war was the firebombing of Dresden, a German cultural capital of no great military value.
		Dresden might have been hit in early 1945 because the Allies had simply run out of fresh targets to bomb.
		The novelist Kurt Vonnegut was there and he said that the fire bombing of Dresden didn't shorten the war by one minute.
	www.learner.org /biographyofamerica/prog22/transcript/page04.html (920 words)

	U.S. British Massacre at Dresden
		Yet the Dresden massacre was one of the most horrific war crimes in history, and one carried out by the “democratic” imperialists.
		As in Dresden, these were not military targets: the horrendous death toll of the civilian population was the intended purpose of the raids.
		And as at Dresden, the key purpose of the A-bombing of Japan was to serve as a warning to the Soviet Union (which following the Red Army’s victory over Nazi Germany had just turned its forces against Japan) of the lengths to which bloodthirsty U.S. imperialism would go to annihilate its enemies.
	www.internationalist.org /dresdenmasscre.html (1352 words)

	Do Mention the War? \| Current Affairs \| Deutsche Welle \| 22.10.2004
		A British newspaper has alleged that the German government is putting pressure on Queen Elizabeth II to make a public apology for the firebombing of Dresden in 1945 when she visits Germany in November.
		Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: The demolished city of Dresden is seen after the allied forces air raids on Feb. 13 and 14, 1945.
		Dresden's development and recovery is remarkable considering its history.
	www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,1564,1369321,00.html (656 words)

	He bombed Dresden as payback for Coventry - The Churchill Centre
		It is oft repeated that Churchill "ordered" the firebombing of Dresden as a "vicious payback" for the German bombing of Coventry (which Churchill is often accused of allowing to burn rather than reveal his access to the German codes -see FH 35).
		Apropos Dresden, we referred to Dr. Chris Harmon, a CC academic adviser and professor at the Marine Corps University, Quantico, Virginia, author of the 1991 monograph "Are We Beasts?" Churchill on the Moral Question of World War II "Area Bombing." The Naval War College Review office in Newport Rhode Island offers free copies.
		In short, Dresden was not a vengeance target, but a military one, and one more 'built up area' that was to be destroyed like the others in Germany."
	www.winstonchurchill.org /i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=106 (520 words)

	firebombing of dresden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		In the two-day firebombing of Dresden, an estimated 25,000 to 40,000 German civilians died.
		A few were openly hostile â” one teacher seemed to hold her personally responsible for the Alliesâ firebombing of Dresden during World War II â” but most...
		Sometimes when you're bombarded with multiple choices on firebombing of dresden it's a devil of a job to sift the discernment from the bad advice firebombing of dresden
	www.define-flustered.today-search.org /firebombing-of-dresden.htm (364 words)

	WORLD WAR II FROM BOTH SIDES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		With the help of her mother’s notes and letters, Tessa writes a poignant account of bombings, hardship and the death of her father in the Battle of the Atlantic.
		Tessa and Martin met, married and raised a family in Canada and made several return visits with their children before and after the fall of the Wall.
		Dresden, Germany and Coventry, England are twin cities.
	www.mimosa.co.cr /newbook (185 words)

	Houston's Clear Thinkers: John Keegan on the Dresden firebombing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Dresden firebombing remained largely unnoticed outside of military circles until the early 1970's when it formed the basis of Kurt Vonnegut's haunting novel, Slaughterhouse Five, which in turn formed the basis of the 1972 George Roy Hill movie of the same name.
		Keegan uses the occasion of the Frauenkirche celebration to review the Dresden firebombing and to observe how Allied terror bombing during World War II raises difficult issues in these times of widespread civilian terror bombing against Americans and citizens of Allied countries.
		It is right to remember Dresden, but chiefly as a warning against repetition of the mass warfare that tortured Europe in the 20th century.
	blog.kir.com /archives/002577.asp (352 words)

	Swedes Hold Memorial Service for Victims of War Crime (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The horrific firebombing of Dresden has become a kind of a symbol for all of those downplayed atrocities perpetrated by the winning side against the Germans in the final stages of the war.
		On the 13th and 14th of February, 1945, the German city of Dresden was attacked with a bomber force of unprecedented size and power.
		David Irving described the effects of the thousands of firebombs as that of a miles-high whirlwind of fire, a tornado of flaming winds travelling hundreds of miles per hour.
	www.nationalvanguard.org /story.php?id=2173 (1038 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)

	Matthew Yglesias: Hyperbolize Much
		The firebombing of Dresden was a war crime (it killed about 40,000 civilians, probably, but that's enough).
		In January 1945, Dresden was designated one of the major "strongpoints" to halt the Soviet invasion from the east.
		The only problem with Dresden was that it was too small in scope and too much of an isolated incident.
	yglesias.typepad.com /matthew/2005/02/hyperbolize_muc.html (7967 words)

	Jonathon Delacour: From Dresden to Tokyo
		The Destruction of Dresden is by the David Irving, the notorious Holocaust denier.
		After reading a dozen or more books about the firebombing of Tokyo—almost all of which are out of print—it occurred to me that if I was to understand what happened in Tokyo I needed to know more about how the Allied bombing campaign against Germany was conducted.
		I’ve come to realize that General Curtis LeMay’s decision to abandon the precision bombing tactics the USAAF had used against military targets in Germany and, instead, to attack Japanese civilians must have been based on his observation of the RAF’s area bombing methods, which were directed almost exclusively against civilians.
	weblog.delacour.net /archives/2003/05/from_dresden_to_tokyo.php (399 words)

	dresden.html
		Dresden or Swinemuende or on the roads leading out of East Prussia.
		Dresden's railroad yards, the only remotely conceivable military targets, were basically ignored by
		Dresden alone lost 1,600 acres of land to utter and senseless destruction in just one night.
	www.exulanten.com /dresden.html (2023 words)

	National Alliance Outreach in Boulder Emphasizes Holocaust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		There is a grain of truth in the paper's claim, of course: the Alliance pamphlets did raise public awareness of a holocaust that took place during World War II, a holocaust that is -- due to the silence of the controlled media and the educational establishment -- virtually unknown to even educated Americans.
		More destruction befell Dresden in one day than was inflicted on the whole of Britain during the entire war.
		Dresden: The Worst Massacre in the History of the World by R. Crossman
	www.nationalvanguard.org /story.php?id=2707 (732 words)

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