Comments by "Dennis Weidner" (@dennisweidner288) on "The SHOCKING Real Story of the Dresden Firestorm" video.

  1. Very well done. Thank you for an informed, honest report on the Dresden bombing. It was of course horrendous, but it is interesting how much misinformation circulates to paint the bombing as a war crime. If it was there would be no need to lie about it. You accurately dismiss the biggest lie--that Munich did not have arms industries. This is of course absurd to anyone who has the slightest knowledge of the War. There was no city in Germany that was not contributing to the war effort and continuing to kill the few surviving Jews. You lay out the details of what happened very well. There is one matter you did not mention--the idea that the War was already won and thus the Allies needed to reduce their effort. The fact is that both the Western Allies and especially the Soviets were still taking very serious casualties from German resistance.. To me, the overriding point here is that we all wish that the bombing had not taken place. But the Germans started and supported the War. Britain and America did everything they could to stay out of the War. But forced into the war and facing a remorseless enemy committing the greatest crimes in human history, the Allies were forced to fight it and mobilize their vast industrial strength. It is unrealistic to think that the engine of war they need to build up could be turned off on a dime. The Germans started the War, The Germans began bombing civilians, and 90, percent of the European civilians killed in the War were killed by the Germans. Harris said it best, ""The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." Another interesting point is that the critics of the bombing today do not come primarily from the Germans. It comes from the political left which is doing its best to delegitimize the Allied victory in the war, desperate to prove that Britain and America did not save Western civilization.
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