When I read that everything in Dresden was bombed, and burned, and that there were practically no survivors, I asked myself, why did they target Dresden, which had no connection with the war at all? They did not house any World War II soldiers. They didn't produce weapons for the nazis. They didn't have an army base, either. Why did the Americans target Dresden? Why not some city that was more important? Some place that would have had an impact on the war, instead of just killing civilians?
The author states that "American fighter planes came in under the smoke to see if anything was moving" (230). They must have known that they would just be killing civilians, "The idea was to hasten the end of the war" (230) but what good would it do to kill innocent people in a city that wasn't threatening anything? Click here for an article about the bombing of Dresden.
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