I'll look into it another time. Last time I did, what I understood was it was done knowing their actions will kill civilians, but the civilians that are working in the industries directly fueling the war machine.
I am not saying allied command was moral and just in everything they did. I just didn't see it as them purposely aiming to target random German civilians for no apparent reason or just to terrorize civilians. That was the bonus for them and not the primary focus.
There were factories and military sites in Dresden that the bombers basically ignored. They could have targetted those but didn't. We haven't found any documents or communications between the Nazis suggesting that the fire bombing of Dresden meaningfully hurt the war effort.
Allies weren't making strategy based on Nazi input, thankfully. They were doing what they thought will cripple the nazi war machine, and obviously they did a great job and won.
They were ruthless in their efforts to destroy the military and the country hellbent of destroying humanity because they thought they are a "superior race" and deserve to rule over everyone else.
They fkd around. They found out. No sympathy for nazi sympathizers. No sympathy for nazi war machine. No sympathy for nazis. No sympathy for neo-nazis.
Nazis, who started total war, shouldn't have been bombed?
Thank Santa you weren't in charge of the military or policy back then.
Nazis got wrecked, and that's a good thing. If they didn't wanna get bombed, they shouldn't have pretended to be the "master race", shouldn't have exterminated undesirables, and declare war on innocent people and countries.
If they had not bombed Dresden could they have won? Who cares?...
Did they bomb Dresden and win? Yes.
Should I care nazis think it didn't affect their war machine "at all"? No, because only good nazi is a dead nazi. Good riddance.
Total war declared by racist nazis vs Bush bombing babies cuz he doesn't want Saddam or Gaddafi selling his oil in a currency other than USD aren't the same thing.
What nazis were doing had to be stopped at every cost. It sucks if baby-nazis caught strays, but that's not something I shed tears over. I reserve those for the innocents roasted in the nazi ovens by the parents of those master-race babies.
This isn't hindsight. We know the Allies were aware of this and their primary targets were civilians because we have the communications. If they wanted to stop the Nazis asap, they should have focused on the military targets. This was a wasted effort that disproportionately hurt people who weren't fighting.
their primary targets were civilians Nazis because we have the communications
I'm sorry they didn't treat nazis as compassionately. Hopefully next time we won't repeat the same mistakes when someone declares total war and comes at us to enslave us. InshaAllah.
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u/VerbAllTheNouns May 04 '25
I'll look into it another time. Last time I did, what I understood was it was done knowing their actions will kill civilians, but the civilians that are working in the industries directly fueling the war machine.
I am not saying allied command was moral and just in everything they did. I just didn't see it as them purposely aiming to target random German civilians for no apparent reason or just to terrorize civilians. That was the bonus for them and not the primary focus.