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The Bonn government is attempting to use the commemoration of the Dresden bombing to expand German imperialism's diplomatic and military reach. Working-class and progressive German groups are protesting this misuse of a great tragedy.
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www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/61/001.html
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The Fire-bombing of Dresden ... Since the facts of the combined USAF and RAF raids on Dresden became known, mostly through the novel 'Slaughterhouse Five' by Kurt Vonnegut, there has been great controversy as to why this appalling raid was considered necessary.
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timewitnesses.org/english/~lothar.html
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1. The reasons for and the nature and consequences of the bombing of Dresden, Germany, by Allied air forces on 14-15 February 1945 have repeatedly been the subject of official and semi-official inquiries and of rumor and exaggeration by uninformed or inadequately informed persons.
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www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/PopTopics/dresden.htm
www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/PopTopics/dresden.htm
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The bombing of Dresden in February 1945 has remained one of the more controversial aspects of World War Two. Dresden, a city unaffected by bombing up to that point in the war, lost many thousands of civilians in the firestorm that was created by the Allies. ... History Learning Site > World War Two > The Bombing of Dresden...
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www.historylearningsite.co.uk/bombing_of_dresden.htm
www.historylearningsite.co.uk/bombing_of_dresden.htm
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Victims of the Dresden bombing raid. ... (2) After the Second World War Air Marshall Arthur Harris came under attack for the bombing raid on Dresden. In his autobiography he explained why he ordered the bombing of the city in February, 1945.;
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www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWdresden.htm
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWdresden.htm
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Many would never come out alive, for that "great democratic statesman," Winston Churchill--in collusion with that other "great democratic statesman," Franklin Delano Roosevelt--had decided that the city of Dresden was to be obliterated by saturation bombing.
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www.rense.com/general19/flame.htm
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Towards the end of World War II Dresden was all but destroyed when hundreds of Allied aircraft dropped bombs and incendiary devices on the city. ... To reach this political goal, wrote Black “the U.S. and British rulers could easily sacrifice more than 35,000 non-combatants with the bombing of Dresden.”...
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ww2history.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_bombing_of_dres...
ww2history.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_bombing_of_dresden
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G.C. Gifford, a Canadian navigator who flew in the raid (and later formed a veterans peace group) told Peace magazine in 1985: “The Dresden bombing was the only raid we went on where we didn’t like what we were going to do before we started.
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www.greenleft.org.au/2005/614/35449
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Dresden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dresden (Upper Sorbian: ) is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden
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