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Remember Roterdam?
Hitler threatened the Dutch generals that if they would not capitulate he would air-bomb the city and level it to the ground.
The Dutch complied in order to save the city, and aferwards Hitler leveled the city all the same. And these were fellow Arian people.
Not quite, you have repeated the WW2 Allied propaganda version of the Rotterdam bombing. The fact is that Rotterdam was about to be besieged, an the Dutch military leadership was offered to lay down the arms before the bombardment beguns. The dutch refused, and the Germans started their operations for siege. This included a a hundred He-111 medium bombers to bomb targets in the city, with the order of ceasing all attack and return if they are signalled from the ground. They took off, headed for Rotterdam. In the meanwhile the Dutch changed their mind, and begu negotiations with the Germans about surrender. German troops around Rotterdam thus signaled the bombers to cease the attack by firing flares , but only a group of the bombers containing 33 Heinkels spotted it and aborted the attack run, the rest carried on and bombed the old town of Rotterdam, killing some 500 people there. From that, Allied propaganda made a story of Rotterdam being completely leveled, with some 30 000 dead etc.
On Dresden, many excuses were developed, as well as methods to shrink the number of victims to some ridiculus numbers. Fact is that the bomb run was not against any military or industrial target, they didn`t targeted any barracks, factories, road junctions or railwaystations. All the many hundred bombers were ordered to concentrate their bombload onto a SINGLE POINT: a marketplace. One justwonders, why one needs tenthousends of pounds of explosives, firebombs to bring down a marketplace, and what makes it such a worthy target. To aim was clear: kill as many civillians down there as possible, which was the RAF-BC`s way of war, as led under Harris. Why? To terrorize the population, and a show of allied airpower to the Soviets. One can also speculate that it was for the purpose of sadism only.
Here`s an interesting newspaper article from 1984:
On August 8 1984 a Mr A. Williams of Nottingham wrote to the British Sunday newspaper, The Observer:
"I have read the reviews of the biographies of Sir Arthur Harris with extremely mixed feelings and also Robert Kee's letter. (8th,July). On 13th, February, 1945, I was a navigator on one of the Lancaster bombers which devastated Dresden. I well remember the briefing by our Group Captain. We were told that the Red Army was thrusting towards Dresden and that the town would be crowded with refugees and that the centre of the town would be full of women and children. Our aiming point would be the market place. I recall that we were somewhat uneasy, but we did as we were told. We accordingly bombed the target and on our way back our wireless operator picked up a German broadcast accusing the RAF of terror tactics, and that 65,000 civilians had died. We dismissed this as German propaganda. The penny didn't drop until a few weeks later when my squadron received a visit from the Crown Film Unit who were making the wartime propaganda films. There was a mock briefing, with one notable difference. The same Group Captain now said, 'as the market place would be filled with women and children on no account would we bomb the centre of the town. Instead, our aiming point would be a vital railway junction to the east. I can categorically confirm that the Dresden raid was a black mark on Britain's war record. The aircrews on my squadron were convinced that this wicked act was not instigated by our much respected guvnor 'Butch' Harris but by Churchill. I have waited 29 years to say this, and it still worries me."
