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Bombing of Dresdon
On February 13-14, 1945 the British Royal Air Force gave the final
clearance to commence what would later become known as one of the greatest
atrocities that has ever been commited against a civilian population. That
night the RAF launched 796 bombers and 9 Mosquitoes which carried 1,478
tons of explosives in addition to 1,182 tons of incendiary bombs (Dear
311) whic ....
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.... result of strategic air attacks. It is
wildly believed among scholars that the information cont.ained in this
report was the basis of the attack on Dresden.
Lindemann¦s figures were correct, but his thinking was immoral
and inhumane. The people to whom his statistics referred so objectively
were innocent civilians, more than half of them women and children. The
assault upon them was nothing more that out-right murder. Any benefit
gained by destroying these civili ....
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