Dresden was not a message to the Germans, the message was for the advancing Soviet Army.
It was a warning and a display of US/Brit. air power. On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Medic <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dresden was not necessary at all. And it needlessly destroyed a beautiful > city. Dresden had little to no effect on the war. The war was already as > good as over. The bombing of Dresden was to make the Germans pay. That's it. > It had a train yard, sure, but the rail infrastructure was already destroyed > so the train yard wasn't a target of any value. This was simply a bombing to > kill civilians and destroy the (arguably) most beautiful in Germany. > > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Eric Roberts < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Much like Hiroshima and Nagasaki. All tragic...but probably necessary. >> >> Eric >> >> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Medic <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > >> > Dresden was used to send a message. Plain and simple. >> > >> > >> > >> > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Kris Sisk <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > > >> > > >Who has't heard about the detainment camps? What about Dresden...we >> > > bombed >> > > >the crap out of it...that was taught... >> > > > >> > > >On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Kris Sisk <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > > > >> > > >> > > About half the people I know have never heard of the WW2 detainment >> > camps. >> > > I didn't know about the German and Italian ones. >> > > >> > > As for Dresden, we didn't just bomb it. We destroyed the whole city >> core >> > > and killed hundreds of thousands of civilians in the city core to >> > > destroy...a train yard. Meanwhile most of the legit military targets in >> > the >> > > area were untouched. A modern day equivalent would be using a nuke to >> hit >> > a >> > > single terrorist in the middle of a city and missing the training camp >> 30 >> > > miles away. >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:318474 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
