dresden
It is now the 50th anniversary of the terror bombing and burning of the non-military cultural center of Dresden, Germany.
Somewhere between 35,000 and 135,000 civilians were killed in the Feb. 13-14, 1945 attack.
The Bonn government is attempting to use the commemoration of the Dresden bombing to expand German imperialism's diplomatic
and military reach. Working-class and progressive German groups are protesting this misuse of a great tragedy. They correctly point
out the responsibility of German capitalism and …
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…imperialist rival--Germany--but to stop the
advance of the Soviet Union. With the latter in mind, he decided to bomb Dresden.
Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin had just met at Yalta to discuss the division of
post-war Europe. Churchill's goal in bombing Dresden was to impress the Soviets with the air power of the Western capitalist allies
and to make sure that the Red Army would seize a dead city.
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