Real0ne
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ORIGINAL: samboct Umm- just to be accurate- 1) Carpet bombing was a term used in Viet Nam, not WWII, since Viet Nam had no accessible precision targets. 2) The bombing of Dresden was at the request of the Red Army since Dresden was a major rail hub. 3) Goebbels inflated the number of civilians killed in Dresden dramatically- claiming hundreds of thousands. The more accurate number is between 15-20,000. 4) In terms of casualties from a single raid, Dresden was not close to the horrors of Hamburg in 1943 where a firestorm took place and nearly 50,000 died in a night. And I think Tokyo takes the record for the most people killed in a single raid- over 100,000 dead in March 1945- greater than the two A-bomb attacks combined. Again, a firestorm or sweep conflagration- high winds with combustible buildings. Debating whether the Holocaust occurred is like arguing over the Easter Bunny- one event is real, and the other is fantasy. Clearly some people mix up the two. If they can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality- you won't change their minds. 1) the term area bombing was used in ww2, and it just so happens to be the same thing as carpet bombing, only over noncombatant civilian targets. 2) Thats the story line, strange the railway was left nearly untouched while 94% of all residential and hospitals were leveled. 3) Geobells had nothing to do with the Dresden numbers, the city officials did the body count and several people as I posted early estimated the approximate number of refugees in the city that night to be 1.1 million. 5) Yes Hamburg was another, stutgarde several more. The numbers quoted for Dresden are only the bodies that could be positively identifed, not the bodies that were disintegrated by the inferno. Yep the nukes were bad, and again designed to target civilians in violation of every international we know. Well snotty shrivel twinky hasnt taken his meds again so you really cant take anything he posts as having anything to do with the thread, he is the thread comedian.
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