Ros - if you don´t mind me saying this article is very biased! Can I remind you that we were at war with Germany, and equal devastation was caused to London (and Coventry (among many). The town of Coventry was literally flattened.
In addition, German historians recently announced that the actual number of deaths from the bombings in Dresden was was 25,000 and NOT 250,000 which they claimed at the time. Because of this falsehood, the bombing of Dresden was condemned as a war crime after the war. In actual fact it was nothing compared to the deaths from bombings in the UK.
War is horrible, for both sides. My grandmother well remembers being machined gunned by German fighter planes whilst with her schoolfriends, walking to school and being told to lay flat on the ground until it was over.
I am not saying that those Allied bombings of German are not horrible. I just think that posting such an article, out of context, gives completely the wrong impression. Ask France, ask Poland, ask England, ask Holland, ask all the affected countries - they will all have similar stories.
it was only Britain´s own fault. If Britain has acted on time there wouldn´t be such a horror called WWII, at least for 3 years Britons ignored all messages from the war. It was a punishment UK earned for letting Germany murder millions and millions.
