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kleinbl00 · 3358 days ago · link · · parent · post: Today in History: 70 years ago today, the Allied bombing of Dresden began. It was one of the most controversial Allied acts of the war.
I'm sorry I offended you. It was not my intention to offend. It was my intention to express irritation and disgust at how this subject usually comes up - "well yeah, the Nazis were horrible and all but, you know, Dresden." Even now, you're talking about "atrocities on both sides of the war" when only one side had gas chambers. The reliable statistics on Dresden are 25,000 dead. The reliable statistics on the Blitz are 40,000 dead... and we won't even get into the unrestricted warfare perpetrated by U-boats on all shipping, humanitarian and otherwise. The "both sides" canard is tired, revisionist bullshit. There aren't that many wars where one side is overwhelmingly evil. WWII is one of them.