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Originally Posted by August
... You say Germany was already defeated but the truth is they had already been defeated for months if not years. but that didn't stop them from fighting. Just a couple months before the Dresden attack the supposedly defeated Germans mounted a huge offensive in the Ardenne.
In a fight to the finish you just keep punching until your opponent goes down. No fighter can tell you what the 2nd or 3rd to last punch in a fight is going to be before he throws it. Dresden was just one of those last punches in a fight that is now over.
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Yes, i agree - but then i did not say anything else. I am not looking for someone to blame - we both know who the one to blame (or the country)initially is.
The thing with Churchill and Dresden came up recently, when the fight at the Falklands (former Malvinas) in WW1 was thoroughly researched, with the "Dresden" running and hiding in South America - which had made Churchill really furious - he did take this personally after it had escaped the second battle at the Falkland isles.
When the "Dresden" was detected again, it was able to outrun the british again, and finally reached an island in the Pacific (forgot the name), where the crew decided to surrender.
Its engines (turbines, thus the speed) lacking any maintenance, outworn and spent, no coal in the bunkers and half of the british fleet on their back there was no way out. Some of the crew was on the beach, and some were aboard under the white flag, when the british task force came in sight and blew the "Dresden" to smithereens.
This had been directly ordered by Churchill, " ... accept no surrender, and after the sinking kill them or take prisoners as you see fit."
Interesting enough, one of the survivors was the later chief of the german SD, a Mr. Canaris. He was involved in several tries to assassinate Hitler, and it it appears likely that MI6 maintained contact with Canaris even after the Munich agreement signed on 30 September 1938. When Winston Churchill came to power after the resignation of Chamberlain in May 1940, Canaris' hopes were high, given the new Prime Minister's strong position against Hitler.
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Catfish