Were both Dresden and Hamburg industrial targets during WWII?
OK Short Answer. They were both industrial Cities. More people died in hamburg in 1943 than died in Dresden in 45. No-one complains about Hamburg because it did not get used by Left Wing Propagandists to build a web of Myths around the bombing. People claim that Dresden was. A) A peaceful town awaiting the end of the war B) An Open city protected by Winston Churchill who said that “we will never bomb Dresden” C That 500,000 people died there. ALL LIES! My Standard Dresden Letter follows please read to the end. Civilians have suffered during war from the beginning of time. When the barbarians sacked Rome they slaughtered men women and children. When the French stormed Spanish towns during the peninsular war the citizens inside were killed and the towns raped and pillaged. The powers during the 19th century and the early 20th laid down ever more stringent rules about conduct during war trying to prevent these excesses but until the Hague Convention came along there were no hard and fast