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Dresden, Feb. 13, 1945
Feb. 13th, 2005 09:59 amPolitically, this post is difficult.
While it is okay to remember all the victims of the Nazi regime, it is still not really okay to remember the victims of allied attacks. Because we were the bad guys who started the war, so we only got what we deserved.
Personally, I think the thousands of people who died in Dresden 60 years ago did not deserve that. Bombing a city full of Civilians, with no military actually stationed in the town, full of refugees from other areas (Dresden had never been bombed between 1939 and this day in 1945, it was considered safe) was not necessary.
It was revenge, maybe. It would be understandable. It wouldn't be right.
I don't know what the allies do to commemorate this day, whether they do anything at all.
I think I'll put a candle in the window tonight. I won't be in Dresden and can't join the demonstration there (and I am not talking about the neo-nazis gathering there, but the people who simply don't want to forget that terrible things happened during the war and the Germans were victims just as much as everybody else), so my candle might be a lonely gesture. But I will still do it and remember.
For more info on Dresden, pictures and whatnot, go here
While it is okay to remember all the victims of the Nazi regime, it is still not really okay to remember the victims of allied attacks. Because we were the bad guys who started the war, so we only got what we deserved.
Personally, I think the thousands of people who died in Dresden 60 years ago did not deserve that. Bombing a city full of Civilians, with no military actually stationed in the town, full of refugees from other areas (Dresden had never been bombed between 1939 and this day in 1945, it was considered safe) was not necessary.
It was revenge, maybe. It would be understandable. It wouldn't be right.
I don't know what the allies do to commemorate this day, whether they do anything at all.
I think I'll put a candle in the window tonight. I won't be in Dresden and can't join the demonstration there (and I am not talking about the neo-nazis gathering there, but the people who simply don't want to forget that terrible things happened during the war and the Germans were victims just as much as everybody else), so my candle might be a lonely gesture. But I will still do it and remember.
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For more info on Dresden, pictures and whatnot, go here
