Re: This must be said!
It is hard to justify Dresden if you know the tactics involved. This fireball just didn't happen. Four or five waves of American and British bombers created, on purpose, this firestorm and then fed it. This process took a long time, not just one raid at night, it took many hours of bombings, appraisal, and repeated bombing.
My former partener's wifes parents were immigrating back from Hungary at the time where her father worked in the oilfields. On the way to Dresden, this girl, Beth, was born. They halted on the hills above Dresden and saw exactly what happened. Perhaps this birth saved all of their lives.
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