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(auschwitz alone was almost doubling that 20k kill count each week btw) Perhaps in its record week. But "each week", no. In fact its average was 4-5k per wee
by aguaviva 2y ago
(auschwitz alone was almost doubling that 20k kill count each week btw)
Perhaps in its record week. But "each week", no. In fact its average was 4-5k per week.
Meanwhile, it is unlikely that the Dresden bombing (occuring as it did just 3 months before the end of the war, after Auschwitz and nearly all the other camps in the East had been liberated) did much of anything to hasten the end of the war, let alone to mitigate any further atrocities.
That's why it gets so much attention. From just the sheer senselessness of it.
- p3rls 2y agoThese post-hoc determinations of senselessness are retarded. You are at war with Nazi Germany and you're doing everything in your power to bring the war to a close and in war sometimes your attacks aren't as effective as you'd like.
- aguaviva 2y agoThere's more to it than that. Many responsible historians have looked into the question of why the Allies found it necessary to make a point of deliberately targeting civilians during the strategic campaign (while not even attempting to target the actual killing machinery of the Final Solution itself). The bombings were really quite horrific, too. Dresden was by no means an outlier, in this regard. But if you want just say that this investigation is just all retarded, then that's your right I guess.