I have recently published a book on Amazon.com called Churchill’s Secret Skills. I read Churchill’s WW2 memoirs twice as part of the research all 8000 pages. It is interesting to look back at a raid like Dresden from a modern perspective, it is understandably why German’s would see it as a war crime and equally understandable why the former Allies would have seen it as a necessary part of War.
Churchill always promised that the Nazi regime would be paid back for the indiscriminate bombing of London and there cities in the early part of the war. In addition you have to remember that at the time Britain was suffering indiscriminate bombing from the V1 rocket.
Churchill didn’t want any more Dresden type raids because he said there would be nothing left to liberate if the Allies continued with such attacks.
It wasn’t the people of Germany or Dresden that brought on the raid it was the Nazi regime, the same regime that murdered millions of Jews and who had no concern for the ordinary German people.
The people of Dresden were victims of the Nazi’s in the same way as the millions of people across Europe who died at their evil hand. It was the Nazi’s who by their actions lead the allies to undertake the raid.
it is just completely wrong to try and blame the Allies for prosecuting the war to the best of their advantage when they had the chance. If Hitler had been in the same position he would acted far worse.
