Dresden marks anniversary of WWII bombings

[August]

Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!

I have to jump in here, but what is wrong with the 'other side' wondering, or questioning the events as they happened, or to offer some more thought to the subject?
I think that this sort of thing seems to happen quiet regularly, and i'm not picking on you August, but i have had many a discussion about WW2, as i am sure a lot of you have had too, but it seems to me that us Germans, and non-Germans who some like to call "sympathizers",
when we question history, or to offer our point of view are advised very diplomatically, or indirectly, or more extremely in other cases to cease questioning history, to accept all the accounts and just deal with it, well then, i have an issue with that.
I am certain that that is not what you are intending to do here August, i may have taken your post wrongly, or read it in a different context but it is not hard to do so.
I understand that in your post which i quoted you close in saying that things weren't all that clear at the time that they were happening, which seems to take a lot of the 'sting' if you will out of the quote.
Correct me if i'm wrong but is one not able to offer some free speech to the discussion of Dresden's Events, or to offer one's notions or feelings toward the subject?
Or is it wrong and forbidden to offer one's personal views, (within reason ofc) on the Dresden subject, without getting the feeling that it is wrong because us Germans or those that side with some of our feelings towards some of these discussions are unequivably wrong and how dare they question anything that the Mighty Allies have written.
Sorry August i am not taking you to task personally, maybe i took your post wrongly, it's just that i have seen this all too often before, attempting to have mature and open-sided discussions about things like this and then getting sarcastic or close-minded replies, or being made to feel bad because i or anyone else has questioned anything that may be construed as questioning the history of WW2 and in particular the German side of things.
I hope i haven't put you off, but this is how i feel.

You haven't put me off my friend. My comments were aimed more at those who want to politicize that tragedy and others for contemporary purposes.