ON THE 1945, 40 years ago, Dresden was attacked by a force of 1400 The raid was the most devastating of the terror-raids Churchill — he authorised one of the most horrendously brutal war crimes ever; the biggest single killing in history.
In the space of a few hours well over 100,000 people were slaughtered. one knows the exact final total but this is what the offical police report says:
UD LO 1945, 202,040 bodies, women and children, were recovered. It is to be assumed that the death toll will climb some 30 per cent could be identified. As the removal of corpses could not be undertaken quickly enough 68,650 of the bodies were incinerated, and their ashes interred on a cemetery'.
overwhelming majority of the victims were civilians, and that more perished in the Dresden holocaust than in the atomic explosion in Hiroshima.
Terror bombing of German cities was advocated by Churchill as a way of sabotic the enemy's 600,000 civilians were killed by these raids. To achieve this objective Churchill seemed prepared to go to any extreme.
He considered the use of anthrax to wipe out an estimated Germans. tualv made and tested on a Scottisi island.
Soviet He even wanted to use mustard gas - this was his view on its use: 'I want a cold-blooded calculation made as to how it would pay us to use poison gas, by which I mean principally mustard. It is absurd to consider morality on this topic when everybody used it in the last the war without a word of complaint from une moralsts or ine curen — i is sulle ly a she does between long and short skirts tor women."
The pretext for the Dresden bombing was that the city was a vital inthe night of 13 February the city of with British and 600 US planes Lar ECL not military.
ordered dustrial and communications centre factories important railway, making it a legitimate military But the real reason was political,