Bombing of Dresden in World War II

By Eric Malnic, Special to The TimesTo the end of his days, Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. believed that dropping the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima was a justifiable means of shortening World War II and preserving the lives of hundreds of thousands of American servicemen who military experts said might have died in a final Allied invasion of Japan. -For Tibbets, the pilot whose bombing run unleashed the devastating explosive force and insidious nuclear radiation that leveled two-thirds of the...Read Full Story

I have always found it queer that what happened in Europe was never considered more deeply by the American public. Europe lay in ruins not by German aggression, but by the Allied invasion. Sure, I suppose the argument could be made that we had to "liberate" Europe, but given the brutality with which that goal was pursued I imagine many would have preferred continued "oppression" to dying, having family and friends die, their homes and all they had ever known destroyed, etc. Yep, between the...Read Full Story

"You guys burnt the place down, turned it into a single column of flame. More people died there in the firestorm, in that one big flame, than died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined." --Kurt Vonnegut, Jr   On the evening of February 13, 1945, an orgy of genocide and barbarism began against a defenseless German city, one of the greatest cultural centers of northern Europe. Within less than 14 hours not only was it reduced to flaming ruins, but an estimated one-third of its inhabitants...Read Full Story

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