Dresden Fire Damage Map
In a news story today, the BBC makes historically false statements in its attempt to whitewash the nation's guilt for the Dresden Holocaust in February 1945, 70 years ago. It writes:
- An estimated 25,000 people died in the British and American attack, which created a firestorm that left 33 sq km (12 sq miles) of the city in ruins. [How can a firestorm that completely destroyed 33 sq km of a city center teeming with a million additional homeless refugees leave only 25,000 dead? A firestorm is something that is near to impossible to escape. They make no attempt to explain that. Witnesses at the time said the number was two to three hundred thousand.]
- The city was believed by allied forces to be a vital Nazi command centre. [Untrue. This was dreamed up later as an excuse when the unbelievable horror they had unleashed became apparent. It is absolutely clear that the British targeted civilians and civilian housing (and also had full knowledge of the extra refugees from the east fleeing the Red Army-raping-hordes) in a bid to extract an unconditional surrender from the Germans, as well as to please Stalin by killing the refugees for him.
- [Dresden] was used by German forces to defend the country against Soviet forces approaching from the east. [Another lie. Whatever inconsequential military base was located outside the city, it was left untouched by the bombers, whose mission was only to destroy civilians in a carefully orchestrated series of attacks, designed to create a firestorm.]
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War propaganda photo - Churchill at the site of the Coventry Cathedral in November 1940 showing the "determination" of the British to "carry-on."
Lord Mayor of Coventry, go home! And the vicar too!
The Lord Mayor of Coventry is among the thousands of people marking the 70th anniversary of the Dresden bombings today.
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Coun Hazel Noonan is in Germany to represent Coventry, which became officially twinned with Dresden in 1959, as the two cities share the strong bond of having suffered similar fates during the Second World War. Ha! Hardly. The only similarity is that Coventry lost its famous cathedral, this part of which the English have left un-rebuilt in order to draw attention to their "sufferings" in hopes of defusing the far worse damage they did to others.
She is joined in Dresden by Coventry vicar, The Reverend Andy March, whose grandmother was in Dresden when the bombs began to fall.
The Rev March’s grandmother, Friedericke Clayton (née Büttner-Wöbst), was just 19 years old and was working just outside the city at the time of the bombing.
The vicar, who currently resides at St Christopher’s Church in Allesley Park, is one of a group of 12 Friends of Coventry Cathedral who have travelled to Germany for the occasion.
--The "twinning" and comparing of Coventry with Dresden is an insult to every German person and "friend of Germany and Dresden" on the planet. There is no comparison between the fate of the two cities. Coventry lost around 500 persons during the entire Battle of Britain, and the greatest damage to the whole town was to the Cathedral. It was symbolic and retributive since no other major religious and/or historical sites in England were bombed. But the desperate and deranged British bombed every famous, and even ancient, German church and cathedral they could reach, along with hundreds of other architectural treasures, in a hundred cities.
No comparison at all!
Plus there were legitimate industrial targets in Coventry, which is not the case for Dresden.
Give it up, Britain. You can't win. In the long run, you are the loser.