The Allied bombing of Dresden cast 300,000 demented souls into a holocaust. Such was its horror and magnitude that a fake holocaust was created to justify it. Yet Dresden was only one of hundreds of European cities and towns to be cremated by the Allies. By comparison many cities fared worse: When on April 4, 1945, the City of Kassel surrendered, of a population of 250,000, just 15,000 were left alive.
Were such apocalyptic war crimes reprisal and reciprocal? No: J. M. Spaight, The RAF Principal Secretary: During World War Two, more bombs by weight were dropped on the city of Berlin than were released on the whole of Great Britain during the entire war. 55,888 RAF personnel died yet their campaign actually lengthened the war. The purpose of the ceaseless carpet bombing by the RAF and USAF was not to hamper the German war effort. Its purpose was the destruction and annihilation of Germany and the German peoples. This policy had never been used since Asia’s Attila the Hun (406 – 453) and Mongol Genghis Khan (1162 – 1227) set out to destroy every living creature and every building in the area of occupation.
“Our primary purpose is destruction of as many Germans as possible. I expect to destroy every German west of the Rhine and within that area in which we are attacking.” ~ General Dwight D. Eisenhower. J. Kingsley Smith (INS) Paris. February 24, 1945.
“What we want to do in addition to the horrors of fire is to bring the masonry crashing down on the Boche, to kill Boche and to terrify Boche.” ~ Bomber Butch’ Harris, 1942. The Sunday Times, January 10 1993.
Sir Basil Liddell-Hart, Britain’s most highly acclaimed military historian described Britain’s policy of targeting civilian populations as “The most uncivilised method of warfare the world has known since the Mongol invasions.”