BOMBING OF DRESDEN 1945-Very Graphic | Tokyo
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Bombing of Dresden was an attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, that took place in the final months of the Second World War in the European Theatre. In four raids between 13 and 15 February 1945, 722 heavy bombers of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and 527 of the (USAAF) dropped more than 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices on the city. The resulting firestorm destroyed fifteen square miles (39 square kilometres) of the city centre. Between 22,700 and 25,000 people were killed. Post-war discussion of whether or not the attacks were justified has led to the bombing becoming one of the moral causes célèbres of the war. A 1953 United States Air Force report defended the operation as the justified bombing of a military and industrial target, which was a major rail transport and communication centre, housing 110 factories and 50,000 workers in support of the German war effort.Several researchers have claimed that not all of the communications infrastructure, such as the bridges, were targeted, nor were the extensive industrial areas outside the city centre. Critics of the bombing argue that Dresden—sometimes referred to as "Florence on the Elbe" (Elbflorenz)—was a cultural landmark of little or no military significance, and that the attacks were indiscriminate area bombing and not proportionate to the commensurate military gains. Large variations in the claimed death toll have fuelled the controversy. In March 1945, the Nazi regime ordered its press to publish a falsified casualty figure of 200,000 for the Dresden raids, and death toll estimates as high as 500,000 have been given. The city authorities at the time estimated no more than 25,000 victims, a figure which subsequent investigations, including one commissioned by the city council in 2010, support.
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About this video: is this the original footage?
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If only they'd had nukes!
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Both the Left and the Right have the habit of appropriating history for their own ends. The raid was a result of a request by the Soviet STAVKA.
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So many of these Wehraboos forget that Germany killed 6 million Jews, and not to mention all the crimes their SS Panzer Divisions carried out. Like Malmedy, for example. Or the Wereth 11.
I'm not saying Dresden was a good thing, but stop claiming the Americans, and English were subhuman demons for doing this. All sides do atrocious things in any war, no matter how "justified" people view them. -
45,000 dead not # 150,000é as goebbles said
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Im Polish and even though we suffered the most in that war I have to say what Americunts and Soviet scum did really classifies them as subhumans, bombing, raping and killing civilians is an act of cowardness
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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.
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It makes me so happy that the British were able to get revenge for the unrelenting bombing of Britain by those Nazis for nearly a year
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i feel really bad for hitler. all he wanted was to bring his country out of utter starvation and poverty. he wanted to take control back from the jews who were the cause of all of it because of the bolshevik revolution. we all should be ashamed of the leaders during that time. we should be ashamed of churchill for dragging the united stated into the war when we shouldve been on germanys side. and now look at us. helping those jews has done a lot for us hasnt it? nope. its brought us nothing more than war after war after war and civil unrest. God said to the jews as long as they keep HIS commandments, they will be blessed. should they not keep the commandments, they shall be cursed and those that help them shall be cursed. we are cursed. so is britain. it isnt our place to help the jews. God must see fit to help them first. they must redeem themselves to be in Gods favor before we help the jews. until then we sin every time we help them. how can they learn the wrong they do, if they are convinced of their own holiness in Gods eyes? the only way they will learn is if we stop aiding them. then they will be forced to recognise their sins and beg God for forgiveness thereby coming back into Gods good graces. no catholic can change that. we humans need to learn that we cannot force the hand of God. sending the jews back to israel was like forcing the hand of God. we see where that gets us by the state of the world today
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LMAO thats a fucking video game lol
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i encourage everyone to watch the series "world war 2 in color" its awesome
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Not to minimize the effects of bombing on cities like Hamburg, Dresden, and other German cities. The effects of the bombs were horrific and far more Germans were killed than Britain's. However, it cannot be forgotten that Adolph Hitler dropped the first bombs, including the use of incendiaries, on cities like London, Coventry, Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, and others in England beginning on September 7th, 1940. London itself was bombed for 56 of 57 nights. Following that the Brits probably lost any empathy towards the Germans. Any personal loss on either side was catastrophic.
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The allied were specialists to destroy what they didn't have. Culture and heritage. They did the same in Montecassino Italy.
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This is WAR CRIME. German civilians shouldn't be blamed fot that Hitler did.
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It was a crime against humanity that wasn't tried in Nuremberg. The History has ironies and people have a collective memory that lasts for centuries. Justice will be served.
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Not a war crime !!! Hithler is the cause of this bombing... more german cities should have been bombed !!
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Warning, whatever your race, you oppose the USA, you DIE.
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the only way to deal with the Eternal Kraut is deep-frying. God bless the Bloody RAF
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coitadinho dos nazista. vermes imundos. t