Dresden was the firebombing of houses, under the rationale that as citizens produced materials for the war, they weren't civilians anymore but combatants. That

Dresden was the firebombing of houses, under the rationale that as citizens produced materials for the war, they weren't civilians anymore but combatants. That also included children and babies. Winston Churchill personally ordered it. Textbook warcrime. But that only matters if there's someone to prosecute you, and they weren't going to send themselves to jail