On February 13, 1945, the Allies begin firebombing Dresden.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Today in 1945, the Allies begin firebombing Dresden. 25,000 civilians perish in the inferno. "The moment has come when the question of bombing German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror should be reviewed," an uneasy Churchill will later write

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Thu Feb 13, 2020: Dresden Bombing. 13-15 February 1945

Sun Feb 15, 2015: Dresden was a civilian town with no military significance. Why did we burn its people?

[Joinfortmill]

1. And then there is this...

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/ohrdruf-concentration-camp

What We Fought Against: Ohrdruf

'On April 4, 1945, the US 4th Armored Division and 89th Infantry Division of the Third US Army came face to face with the horrors of Nazi brutality. The men discovered Ohrdruf, a Nazi labor camp and a subcamp of the Buchenwald system.'

Note: There was also a concentration camp in Dresden named: Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp

[3Hotdogs]

4. Did the bombing kill the prisoners in that camp?

[Joinfortmill]

6. Google is your friend. Here is a link.

https://www.gedenkstaette-flossenbuerg.de/en/history/satellite-camps/dresden-bernsdorf#:~:text=Disbanding%20of%20the%20camp%20%2F%20end,liberated%20on%20May%208%2C%201945.

[The Jungle 1]

2. Why did germany kill 6 million Jews.

Nothing stopped them from continued killing of Jews. The people of Germany knew.

[3Hotdogs]

3. It was around 1975. I met a woman, around 45 years old. She was a kid who survived that bombing.

She said little, other than that. Tears filled her eyes as she recalled the event in her mind.

I looked at her and could think of nothing to say.

[Joinfortmill]

5. War is hell. And that is the truth.

[HUAJIAO]

7. Slaughterhouse-Five

[Chainfire]

8. The war was in its final days, Nazi Germany was breathing its last gasps

Dresden was not a "military" target as much as a cultural center. It served no military purpose and the bombing was an act of wanton murder and destruction. Terror for terror's sake. Dresden was packed with refugees fleeing the Russians, mostly women and children. I believe that it was a war crime, and I am deeply ashamed that we did it.

[Joinfortmill]

9. My Dad was there when the camps were liberated... "It's all true", he said.

And that was all he was ever able to say about it. War is hell. Genocide is monstrous.

[Chainfire]

10. Are you implying that one action validates the other?

[Joinfortmill]

11. No.