1945: One of the worst war crimes in history, the terrorist murder of hundreds of thousands of civilians and POWs by Allied firebombs in Dresden, Germany, begins.
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Let us not forget Dresden, but let's also relate that to what Israel and America are doing to Palestinians in Gaza today.By Elizabeth Carto
Dresden was destroyed on February 13-15, 1945. 240 British bombers attacked for two hours, killing old people, women, and children. Dresden has no military targets. The city had no defense. Again, Churchill was the warlord. The city was attacked for three days. He joyously watched the fires and explosions raining down and knew of the destruction his bombers were causing. There were no human feelings for the sacrificial lambs who died there. Glorification for monsters like “Bomber Harris” and Churchill, and yes, the Queen Mother, who it was said, had been cheering on the bombers toward Dresden, was soon to follow the haters. The number of burned and melted victims will never be totally known. Within days afterward, the number of deaths was made public by the local searchers. Rescuers were completely wiped out with the first assault.
The numbers –
35,000 fully identified, 50,000 not identified, but jewelry and wedding bands were found and recognized. 108,000 victims could not be identified, no body parts were left, and the fires had burned and melted them.
Today these numbers are still being debated. 20 million Germans were to be eliminated under the Morgenthau Plan before the war ended. Roosevelt was not opposed but he was stopped.
An important source is the memoirs of Vladimir Semjonows from 1945. He worked at the Russian foreign office; the Russians were only about 30 miles away from Dresden that day. He wrote of the terrible picture of Dresden, the heat and smells of a quarter of a million corpses buried underneath the rubble of the town, melted, a terrible stench for days after the “Anglo-American” bombing attacks.
Gaza, as of this date, has a death count of at least 25,000. Just as in Dresden, the number of children killed is very high. Mothers held on to them to get out of the burning streets and buildings; the asphalt was melting. Little children were unable to hang on but were ripped away from their parents and thrown with the flames into the air. Half the dead in Gaza are children; how can anyone not have sympathy with the mothers and children? The butcher Netanyahu promises, while killing the innocents, that he will empty Gaza.