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������ FW: Dresden, Germany ‑ A True Holocaust and Act of Heinous Terrorism
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����������������� The Dresden Holocaust
���������������� �Dresden � A True Holocaust and Act of Heinous Terrorism�
��� http://www.rense.com/general34/dres.htm
��� Fifty‑eight years ago, on the evening of
��� February 13, 1945, an orgy of genocide and
��� barbarism began against a defenseless German
��� city, one of the greatest cultural centers of
��� northern Europe. Within less than 14 hours, not
��� only was it reduced to flaming ruins, but an
��� estimated one‑third of its inhabitants �
��� possibly as many as half a million � had
��� perished in what was the worst massacre of all
��� time.
��� As Americans continue to bemoan the loss of
��� fewer than 3,000 at [the] World Trade Center and the Pentagon as they themselves prepare
��� to slaughter many times that number in an act of unprovoked aggression in Iraq, few know
��� � less care � about the campaign of cold‑blooded [state] TERRORISM conducted against
��� German civilians during World War II, culminating in the extermination of over 300,000.
��� The following account, taken from the Feb. 1985 issue of the NS Bulletin, tells us what a
��� REAL holocaust is like.
��� Toward the end of World War II, as Allied planes rained death and destruction over
��� Germany, the old Saxon city of Dresden lay like an island of tranquility amid desolation.
��� Famous as a cultural center and possessing no military value, Dresden had been spared the
��� terror that descended from the skies over the rest of the country.
��� In fact, little had been done to provide the ancient city of artists and craftsmen with
��� anti‑aircraft defenses. One squadron of planes had been stationed in Dresden for awhile, but
��� the Luftwaffe decided to move the aircraft to another area where they would be of use. A
��� gentlemen�s agreement seemed to prevail, designating Dresden an �open city�.
��� On Shrove Tuesday, February 13, 1945, a flood of refugees fleeing the Red Army 60 miles
��� away had swollen the city�s population to well over a million. Each new refugee brought
��� fearful accounts of Soviet atrocities. Little did those refugees retreating from the Red terror
��� imagine that they were about to die in a horror worse than anything Stalin could devise.
��� Normally, a carnival atmosphere prevailed in Dresden on Shrove Tuesday. In 1945,
��� however, the outlook was rather dismal. Houses everywhere overflowed with refugees, and
��� thousands were forced to camp out in the streets shivering in the bitter cold.
��� However, the people felt relatively safe; and although the mood was grim, the circus played
��� to a full house that night as thousands came to forget for a moment the horrors of war.
��� Bands of little girls paraded about in carnival dress in an effort to bolster waning spirits.
��� Half‑sad smiles greeted the laughing girles, but spirits were lifted.
��� No one realized that in less than 24 hours those same innocent chilren would die screaming
��� in Churchill�s firestorms. But, of course, no one could know that then. The Russians, to be
��� sure, were savages, but at least the Americans and British were �honorable.�
��� So when those first alarms signaled the start of 14 hours of hell, Dresden�s people streamed
��� dutifully into their shelters. But they did so without much enthusiasm, believing the alarms to
��� be false, since their city had never been threatened from the air. Many would never come
��� out alive, for that �great democratic statesman�, Winston Churchill � in collusion with that
��� other �great democratic statesman�, Franklin Delano Roosevelt � had decided that the city
��� of Dresden was to be obliterated by saturation bombing.
��� What where Churchill�s motives? They appear to have been political, rather than military.
��� Historians unanimously agree that Dresden had no military value. What industry it did have
��� produced only cigarettes and china.
��� But the Yalta Conference was coming up, in which the Soviets and their Western allies
��� would sit down like ghouls to carve up the shattered corpse of Europe. Churchill wanted a
��� trump card � a devastating �thunderclap of Anglo‑American annihilation�� with which to
��� �impress� Stalin.
��� That card, however, was never played at Yalta, because bad weather delayed the originally
��� scheduled raid. Yet Churchill insisted that the raid be carried out � to �disrupt and confuse�
��� the German civilian population behind the lines.
��� Dresden�s citizens barely had time to reach their shelters. The first bomb fell at 10:09 p.m.
��� The attack lasted 24 minutes, leaving the inner city a raging sea of fire. �Precision saturation
��� bombing� had created the desired firestorm.
��� A firestorm is caused when hundreds of smaller fires join in one vast conflagration. Huge
��� masses of air are sucked in to feed the inferno, causing an artificial tornado. Those persons
��� unlucky enough to be caught in the rush of wind are hurled down entire streets into the
��� flames. Those who seek refuge underground often suffocate as oxygen is pulled from the air
��� to feed the blaze, or they perish in a blast of white heat � heat intense enough to melt
��� human flesh.
��� Women and children targeted
��� One eyewitness who survived told of seeing �young women
��� carrying babies running up and down the streets, their dresses and
��� hair on fire, screaming until they fell down, or the collapsing
��� buildings fell on top of them.�
�� �There was a three‑hour pause between the first and second raids.
��� The lull had been calculated to lure civilians from their shelters into
��� the open again. To escape the flames, tens of thousands of civilians
��� had crowded into the Grosser Garten, a magnificent park nearly
��� one and a half miles square.
��� The second raid came at 1:22 a.m. with no warning. Twice as
��� many bombers returned with a massive load of incendiary bombs.
��� The second wave was designed to spread the raging firestorm into
��� the Grosser Garten.
��� It was a complete �success�. Within a few minutes a sheet of flame
��� ripped across the grass, uprooting trees and littering the branches of
��� others with everything from bicycles to human limbs. For days afterward, they remained
��� bizarrely strewn about as grim reminders of Allied sadism.
��� At the start of the second air assault, many were still huddled in tunnels and cellars, waiting
��� for the fires of the first attack to die down. At 1:30 a.m. an ominous rumble reached the ears
��� of the commander of a Labor Service convoy sent into the city on a rescue mission. He
��� described it this way:
��������� �The detonation shook the cellar walls. The sound of the explosions mingled with
��������� a new, stranger sound which seemed to come closer and closer, the sound of a
��������� thundering waterfall; it was the sound of the mighty tornado howling in the inner
��������� city.�
��� Melting human flesh
��� Others hiding below ground died. But they died painlessly � they simply glowed bright
��� orange and blue in the darkness. As the heat intensified, they either disintegrated into cinders
��� or melted into a thick liquid � often three or four feet deep in spots.
��� Shortly after 10:30 on the morning of February 14, the last raid swept over the city.
��� American bombers pounded the rubble that had been Dresden for a steady 38 minutes. But
��� this attack was not nearly as heavy as the first two.
��� However, what distinuished this raid was the cold‑blooded ruthlessness with which it was
��� carried out. U.S. Mustangs [fighter planes] appeared low over the city, strafing anything that
��� moved, including a column of rescue vehicles rushing to the city to evacuate survivors. One
���assault was aimed at the banks of the Elbe River, where refugees had huddled during the
��� horrible night.
��� In the last year of the war, Dresden had become a hospital town. During the previous night�s
��� massacre, heroic nurses had dragged thousands of crippled patients to the Elbe. The
��� low‑flying Mustangs machine‑gunned those helpless patients, as well as thousands of old
��� men, women and children who had escaped the city.
��� When the last plane left the sky, Dresden was a scorched ruin, its blackened streets filled
��� with corpses. The city was spared no horror. A flock of vultures escaped from the zoo and
��� fattened on the carnage. Rats swarmed over the piles of corpses.
��� A Swiss citizen described his visit to Dresden two weeks after the raid:
��������� �I could see torn‑off arms and legs, mutilated torsos and heads which had been
��������� wrenched from their bodies and rolled away. In places the corpses were still lying
��������� so densely that I had to clear a path through them in order not to tread on arms
��������� and legs.�
��� The death toll was staggering. The full extent of the Dresden Holocaust can be more readily
��� grasped if one considers that well over 250,000 � possibly as many as a half a million �
��� persons died within a 14‑hour period, whereas estimates of those who died at Hiroshima
��� range from 90,000 to 140,000.1
��� Allied apologists for the massacre have often �twinned� Dresden with the English city of
��� Coventry. But the 380 killed in Coventry during the entire war cannot begin to compare with
��� over 1,000 times that number who were slaughtered in 14 hours at Dresden. Moreover,
��� Coventry was a munitions center, a legitimate military target. Dresden, on the other hand,
� ��produced only china � and cups and saucers can hardly be considered military hardware!
��� It is interesting to further compare the respective damage to London and Dresden, especially
��� when we recall all the Hollywood schmaltz about the �London blitz�. In one night, 16,000
��� acres of land were destroyed in the Dresden massacre. London escaped with damage to only
��� 600 acres during the entire war.
��� In one ironic note, Dresden�s only conceivable military target � its railroad yards � was
��� ignored by Allied bombers. They were too busy concentrating on helpless old men, women
��� and children.
��� If ever there was a war crime, then certainly the Dresden Holocaust ranks as the most
��� sordid one of all time. Yet there are no movies made today condemning this fiendish
��� slaugher; nor did any Allied airman � or Sir Winston � sit in the dock at Nuremberg. In
��� fact, the Dresden airmen were actually awarded medals for their role in this mass murder.
��� But, of course, they could not have been tried, because there were �only following orders�.
�������������������������������������������������� Photo by Walter Hahn. Irving collection.
��������������������� The above photo shows one of the pyres on Dresden�s Altmarkt
��������� ������������square, February 25, 1945. Thousands of incompletely‑burned
��������������������� human bodies had to be publicly cremated after the
��������������������� American/British air raid, to avoid an epidemic.
��� This is not to say that the mountains of corpses left in Dresden were ignored by the
��� Nuremberg Tribunal. In one final irony, the prosecution presented photographs of the
��� Dresden dead as �evidence� of alleged National Socialist atrocities against Jewish
��� concentration‑camp inmates!
��� Churchill, the monster who ordered the Dresden slaugher, was knighted, and the rest is
��� history. The cold‑blooded sadism of the massacre, however, is brushed aside by his
��� biographers, who still cannot bring themselves to tell how the desire of one madman to
��� �impress� another one led to the mass murder of up to a half million men, women and
��� children.
��� NEVER SHALL WE FORGET THE VICTIMS OF THIS UNSPEAKABLE CRIME
��� AGAINST HUMANITY.
��������� Note 1:
��� �����Although it will never be possible to obtain an exact count of the victims, a reasonable estimate can
��������� be adduced by taking the number of registered inhabitants of the city, doubling it by a factor of 2+
��������� to account for undocumented refugees in the city at the time, and then extrapolating the number of
��������� dead from analogous instances in other German cities subjected to saturation bombing and aerial
��������� atrocitiy during World War II, notably Hamburg, Darmstadt and Pforzheim, inter alia.� back
��� Apocalypse 1945: the Destruction of Dresden
��� by David Irving
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