Comments by "Mitch Richards" (@mitchrichards1532) on "The SHOCKING Real Story of the Dresden Firestorm" video.

  1. Hit ler on 1 September 1940: "And should the Royal Air Force drop two thousand or three thousand or four thousand kilograms of bo mbs, then we will now drop 150,000; 180,000; 300,000; 400,000; yes one million kilograms in a single night. And should they declare they will greatly increase their attacks on our cities, then we will erase their cities! " His intent was clear, what he lacked was capability. The Allies did not lack the capability.
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  2. No, Toyko was far higher, even Hamburg in 1943 was much higher.
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  3. Read about how he falsified his evidence. Look up Irving and the TB-47 controversy.
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  4. Sounds like neo-na zi revisionist BS.
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  5.  @dafeekielelliott2442  Guernica, Warsaw, Rotterdam.... The RAF raid you keep talking about resulted in 0 German casualties. The Luftwaffe hit on London the day prior did result in British civilian casualties, so where is the escalation??? You are clearly a N A Z I apologist and ignoring their complicity and guilt in the matter.
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  6.  @edwardmaurer4989  He appears to be an Anglophobic N A Z I apologist. At least that's the position he's taken.
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  7. In spite of the headlines of a destroyed city, 130k dead, etc. Dresden's area is 328.8 km2, the city center and total area destroyed was 15 km2.
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  8.  @dragosstanciu9866  He just wants you to know he's a neo-na zi nutter.
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  9.  @bustercrabbe8447  Sounds like speculative OPINION without a source to back it.
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  10. Civilian target with major transportation infrastructure that connected Berlin with Bavaria, which is why it was targeted in the first place.
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  11. Conspiracy simp, looking for a cause.
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  12. War is ugly.... "de-housing" the populace creates problems for the enemy, clogs the roads with people, creates requirements for food and shelter, etc. It generally stresses the enemy's logistics, saps their combat power. I'm not justifying it, but this is how its viewed at the top.
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  13. Dresden is 127 Square miles in size and the Firestorm destroyed the city center of 3 square miles, why do people mention the entire population and all of the refugees when talking about casualties?
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  14.  @CoCAccount-bv2rp  "you are republican, you Support trump". I don't support Trump, did I say that I did? You make a lot of assumptions and put words in people's mouths so you can argue against them. lol, you're a fool.
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  15.  @dafeekielelliott2442  Dude what? You said: "Please stop lying and do some research, before the British sent the 100 plane bombing raid on Berlin both sides deliberately avoided bombing each other in ways that would put a lot of civilians in danger." The British kil led 0 German civilians.... The Germans caused 100 ki lled and 300 injured on 24 August, look it up. There were 6 major raids throughout that day, targets included Upminster, Dagenham and Essex (all basically part of London) and they hit London proper that night. Deliberate or not, they were hitting civilians. The British hit back and despite missing everything, they hit the Germans decision making process pretty squarely. So far NONE of your replies have addressed Guernica, Rotterdam, Warsaw... You are blaming the victim and taking an apologist position.
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  16.  @dafeekielelliott2442  Guernica, Warsaw, Rotterdam.... Luftwaffe targeted civilians with terror attacks as part of German operational plans to meet campaign objectives. Your entire position here is a lie... Get over yourself and the BS apologist position you've taken. No one is falling for it. The Germans initiated terror bom bing of civilians in WW2, not the British. Guernica, Warsaw, Rotterdam....
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  17.  @CoCAccount-bv2rp  "Stop listing cities that have nothing to do with the British-German conflict, it's about Germany and England, not Poland or Russia." BS.... It's about WW2 and the German Luftwaffe bom bing civilians as a form of warfare. They clearly pioneered it, so you cannot blame the British for doing it first. I'm not British either, so I don't have an agenda here. If I did it would be German since I am Deutche-Amerikaner.
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  18.  @enemanozzle  Total B S... Look up Tagesbefehl No. 47 East Germany discovered 1965. Tell me what you find genius. Also, look up the RAF aerial pics of Dresden, then look on Google maps. The city CENTER was destroyed, not the whole city. We're talking about the commercial district that made up about 10% of the city's overall area and had minimal housing for residents or refugees. You can't fit 250k people into that small of an area even if you tried, let alone during an air raid. It would have looked like Woodstock 69. Wake up...do some research.
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  19.  @501sqn3  Reliable sources that I've seen say 22-25k. Never seen 35-50k.
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  20.  @501sqn3  There was an in depth inquiry to settle the issue: In 2008, an independent historical commission formed by the city of Dresden concluded that approximately 25,000 lost their lives in the attack. Abschlussbericht der Historikerkommission zu den Luftanfriffen auf Dresden zwischen dem 13 un 15 Februar 1945.
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  21.  @dafeekielelliott2442  How many civilians did the Luftwaffe "not" k ill the day before the RAF Berlin raid? And conversely... Everything I've found regarding the RAF raid on Tempelhof resulted in 0 German casualties. You need to step up and acknowledge that at that point in the war the Luftwaffe had already deliberately hit civilian targets. They were already guilty of what you accuse the British of.
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  22.  @dafeekielelliott2442  Look up this article: "NO, THE LONDON BLITZ WASN’T STARTED BY ACCIDENT"
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  23.  @TrueNorth333  It's 25k based on the bod ies recovered. Most lost their lives in cellars from lack of oxygen or carbon monoxide. The idea that many were incinerated doesn't wash with the facts. And who said there was 300k refugees in the city center??? There might have been a few thousand at most, the rest were on the roads headed west since night was safer to travel.
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  24.  @mikeotoole1889  25k died...
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  25. No they didn't, I see this misinformation posted all the time. If you think so, then name the date and target, lets look at it.
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  26.  @dafeekielelliott2442  The target was Tempelhof airport and Luftwaffe aircraft, not the city of Berlin. The Germans accidentally hit London the day before and inspired the RAF, so regardless of how you spin this the Germans bombed civilians first and had a long history of it. Look up the Zeppelin and Gotha campaign in WWI, then Guernica, Rotterdam, Warsaw, etc.
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  27.  @dafeekielelliott2442  Nope, I won't allow you to ignore German bombing of London in WW1 as if it never happened and set a precedent. They kil led almost 1500 people, injured 4000+, and caused extensive damage. In Spain they hit Guernica, in Poland they destroyed Warsaw, they terror bom bed Rotterdam. By the time the RAF hit Berlin, the Luftwaffe had already kil led thousands of civilians. The sense of entitlement was removed by the RAF and it was in ni way an escalation when the Germans had been doing it all along as if no one would retaliate.
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  28.  @dafeekielelliott2442  Nope... We're talking about aerial bom bing
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  29.  @dafeekielelliott2442  Casuality directly related to the topic. Why do you think British chain home radar existed? Shelters for the public across London? The Germans had terror bom bed London before, then there's Guernica, so the British prepared for that contingency and it is in every way germane to the topic. The Germans pioneered targeting civilians, not the British. The Germans did it first in Spain, Poland, Holland, AND London whether it was deliberate or not. The Germans were NOT chivalrous as you seem to want to imply.
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  30.  @dafeekielelliott2442  The Germans suffered ZERO casualties, but the Blitz was a "retaliation" to a British retaliation for the Germans bom bing London and kil ling British civilians??? You're pushing an apologist bankrupt argument.
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  31. Gaza in a totally unrelated video 👎👎👎 #whataboutism and whiny B S.
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  32. The Dresden area had refugees in it, they weren't all concentrated in the downtown business district. Dresden's area is 328.8 km2, the city center and total area destroyed was 15 km2. or less than 5% of Dresden. Context for the claims that are so often made.
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  33.  @CoCAccount-bv2rp  I've been through it many times by car, and walked downtown a few times. I can also read a map, use Google earth, look up RAF period pics, etc. You? Wake up genius.
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  34.  @EQOAnostalgia  Europa: created by Tobias Bratt, a Swedish neo-na zi member of the Nordic Resistance Movement, a European neo-Na zi movement. Go watch his garbage? Nope...
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  35.  @bustercrabbe8447  The firebombing attack was a British endeavor.... So your odd theory has no basis. The US targeted the railyard with HE.
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  36. Drama queen....
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  37. Agree for the most part, the issue of Dresden as the transportation hub connecting East Prussia to the rest of Germany and chiefly to the Bavarian Alps (the alleged "redoubt") remains which makes Dresden a legitimate and primary target. Unoccupied Germany was somewhat of an hourglass shape with Dresden at the narrow chokepoint connecting the two parts, making it an obvious target. If the N A zi leadership moved from Berlin to the Bav Alps, the war would last a little longer, and no one wanted that...
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  38. If Dresden is 127 Square miles in size and the Firestorm destroyed the city center of 3 square miles, why do people mention the entire population and all of the refugees when talking about casualties?
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  39. What was left of Germany at this point of the war was roughly shaped like an hourglass with Dresden at the narrow middle point. It was the transportation and communications hub linking Berlin to the south of the country. To break the lines of travel and communications meant cutting off Berlin before the Soviet offensive to take it, and also cut off the N azi elite from fleeing to the Bavarian Alps as Allied leaders feared. That and industrial concerns, supply hub for the German Army, impress the Soviets, etc.
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  40.  @CoCAccount-bv2rp  Attack me personally if you want, apparently that's your thing. I'm German-American, registered Republican, combat vet, posting with a hangover from celebrating the 4th at the VFW. Just because I call out N A Zis doesn't make me ga y, Democrat, or Commy. Get over yourself or gt fo. 😁
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  41.  @CoCAccount-bv2rp  I see, you hate the US. Good for you, I don't give a sh't. lol Believe what the media tells you about the US, if it's in the media it must be true. Right genius?
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  42.  @dafeekielelliott2442  You've taken an apologist's position, like it or not its what you've demonstrated here with your argument. The target for the British raid was Tempelhof and the intent was to hit Luftwaffe aircraft and facilities as stated in the orders for said raid. " But the intent from Churchill was clear, he wanted to bo mb population centers" -STRAWMAN "And once again, this was an escalation because a few German planes flew off course, despite strict orders from Goring to not bomb London, and kil led no one." Over 100 were killed and 300 injured. The Luftwaffe dropped bombs on the financial heart of London and Oxford Street in the West End. You don't have your facts in order.
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