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No, it was not justified IMO, it was cruelty beyond doubt and necessity.

Historian Jörg Friedrich: "Previously it appeared to me to be a just answer to the crimes of the Third Reich, but I've since changed my mind. Until the Second World War there was a common consensus that the massacre of civilian populations was illegal."

"The Air Ministry agreed that it was most useful to be able to use gas on less sophisticated enemies who would have no idea from where the danger they faced came. The use of gas was banned by the 1925 Geneva protocol." (The Daily Telegraph, January 3, 1997)

"Perhaps the next time round the way to do it will be to kill women, children and the civilian population." (Britain's war leader, quoted during the First World War)

"Germany is getting too strong. We must crush her" (Churchill, 1936)

In Dresden, thousands of incomplete burned bodies had to be publically cremated to avoid an epidemic. Others died as a result of suffocation. 80 % of the city or more was destoyed in one night. Families of numerous Germans never received any aid for their loved ones lost in this masacre.

Reverend Ludwig A. Fritsch said: "They [the allies] know, that the Germans must be angels and Saints to forget and to forgive all the injustices, atrocities and cruelties which they have suffered, twice in a generation, without any provocation, from the hands of the Allies. Just imagine what would we as Americans do if we would have been treated as we treat the Germans! Our cruelties would have no limits in revenging our sufferings!"