On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 10:44:59AM -0500, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> > SPIEGEL ONLINE
> >
> > The Destruction of Dresden:
> > A Multimedia Overview of the Firestorm
> >
>
> I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, the RAF & USAF "show" in
> Dresden was merely a re-enactment of similar shows courtesy of the
> Luftwaffe. On the other hand, however, it was the civilian population that
> suffered the consequences. On the third hand (if there is such a thing) or
> rather paw, notice the omission of the qualifier "innocent" before the word
> "civilians" in the above sentence. One needs only to watch documentaries
> from, say, the Nuremberg rallies to conclude that they got what the
> collectively asked for. On the fourth paw, those who marched in the
> Nuremberg or later committed war atrocities in Europe, are not necessarily
> those who died in the fire bombing of Dresden.
>
> Is there a rational position on this issue other than the trite anti-war
> slogans? I do not think so, but then again, humans are not rational (at
> least not fully) and the only rational thing is to accept that.
>
> Wojtek
>
>
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