"German neo-Nazis claim the carpet bombing of Dresden at the end of World War II was a war crime and have been holding rallies since the 1990s to protest what they call the "bombing Holocaust.", well lets see wasn't every other major German city carpet bombed by the Allies as well, what makes Dresden so different? When Dresden was bombed by both the RAF and USAAF one of the purposes of the raid was to kill as many enemy soilders as possible and give them no where to hide. Another was to lower the morale of the enemy to a point where they wouldn't fight. So in a way it was the Allies using the "terror bombing" tactics that the Luftwaffe used on London and the South Coast of England during the Battle of Britian but on a much larger scale. My question is how can someone consider a bombing raid a war crime? People die during war civilans more so than soliders who are shooting at each other and it can't really be provented, even today with all our "smart" weapons civilans still die.
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