Why was the bombing of dresden significant?
Oh well here we go again. Ammianus. Your figures for RAF bombing are taken from a survey conducted in 1940 not 1945, in 1945 RAF bombing accuracy was as high as the USAAF daylight raids For the truth about “nothing to do with the war” Dresden please read my standard answer below. The biggest problem with dealing with the matter of the bombing of Germany is that it is judged against modern morals and standards of behaviour. 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 “rules of war”. In 1945 the Hague Convention did not prohibit the general bombing of a to
