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1945 Dresden bombing’s lesson is the same 75 years on: Might still makes right
Laughland, John http://www.rt.com/op-ed/480759-1945-dresden-bombing-war/
Publisher: RT
Date Written: 13/02/2020
Year Published: 2020
Resource Type: Article
Dresden is like Auschwitz or Srebrenica, a terrible event elevated to almost mythical status because it is in fact the symbol of a wider phenomenon, in this case the bombing campaign conducted against a large number of German cities including Hamburg and Berlin. Dresden occupies this symbolic status because of the very high number of civilian deaths, most burned to death by incendiary bombs whose function was to set buildings alight, and because the town had little or no military significance.
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