Re:My new favorite book of all time
by pselbert on Monday January 29, 2018 @01:53PM
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It was what stopped the British led allied bombing which had escalated out of the Blitz. Dresden was not a military target and its destruction killed so many civilians that they stopped night time bombing raids.
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Re:My new favorite book of all time
by KineticLensman on Monday January 29, 2018 @05:28PM
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> It was what stopped the British led allied bombing which had escalated out of the Blitz. Dresden was not a military target and its destruction killed so many civilians that they stopped night time bombing raids.
No. Dresden was bombed on 15 February 1945 [0]. The British continued night raids until the end of the war, peaking in March, and with the last raid on Berlin on the night of 21/22 April (76 Mosquitos) and the final raid on the night of 25/26 April [1]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden#Second_World_War
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Bomber_Command#Strategic_b...
Have you any source for that? It certainly raised questions but the war was winding down and destroying things the allies would need wasn’t in their interest.
Bigger raids happened after Dresden as well and Harris gave his opinion: “I do not personally regard the whole of the remaining cities of Germany as worth the bones of one British Grenadier.” Luckily he alone didn’t make describe I guess.