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DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
7. How pathetic.
Sat Feb 21, 2015, 03:28 PM
Feb 2015
- It's really sad when people seek to turn attention away from the suffering of others because they think the pain and suffering of someone else is somehow worth more.

MisterP

(23,730 posts)
14. carpet bombing wasn't revenge for Dachau or even the Blitz: it was written by a fascist
Sun Feb 22, 2015, 01:26 AM
Feb 2015
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulio_Douhet

even the most foaming USAF "pet historian" agrees that it didn't work, either

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Call Me Wesley

(38,187 posts)
9. I'd rather read 'Slaughterhouse Five' again than
Sat Feb 21, 2015, 04:23 PM
Feb 2015

to listen to Thomas Goodrich defending Nazi Germany as the poor molested country by evil marxists.

You're bringing a video on here that has a white supremacist background. There are other, more credible sources to debate the fire-bombing of German cities. The 'Hellstorm' source is like saying 'Heil Hitler!' in your subject line. Sorry.

Edit to add a more credible source about that part of WWII:

Dawson Leery

(19,348 posts)
10. The Nazis had no problem bombing civilians.
Sat Feb 21, 2015, 04:29 PM
Feb 2015

Nothing short of an all out war was going to stop this far right threat.

Dresden was small compared to what happened in those concentration camps.

Archae

(46,328 posts)
12. We can't compare how we are today, to how they were back then.
Sat Feb 21, 2015, 04:42 PM
Feb 2015

It was war, total war.

Dresden was a target, since it had a major rail yard.

And they didn't have smart weapons, for the most part.

So they had to drop tons and tons of bombs all over, hoping they'd hit the target.

Nazi Germany itself was still far from "finished," just look at what happened in the battle of Berlin, months later.

Dresden won't be repeated, nor will Hiroshima.

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