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[@GERMANHISTORYARCHIVE]

159 Germany (GDR/DDR) 1956 ▶ Dresden in Color after Bombing by RAF Royal Air Force and US Army Air Force German History Archive ▶ kzbin.info/aero/PLLEtu_bvreispSTeS_m08OcY8sC26bJVN

[@actonman7291]

The city is a genuine gem now.

[@robertoesterini1021]

Nah, it's still full of ugly DDR buildings outside the rebuilt city centre

[@juicyfruit4378]

No it’s not

[@juicyfruit4378]

@@robertoesterini1021Exactly! All these lying comments about how beautiful it is - BS! The old town is very beautiful, but the rest of the city is bland, East German Plattenbau not much different than Chemnitz. 😂

[@utabehrendt5281]

Wir können diese schmerzhaften Ereignisse nur vergeben, wenn es erlaubt ist, sie WAHRHAFT zu benennen !!!

[@henryseidel5469]

Es war kein schmerzhaftes Ereignis und auch keine Naturkatastrophe, es war eines der schlimmsten Kriegsverbrechen gegen die Humanität. Doppelte sprachliche Standards machen die Sache nicht besser.

[@armyvet8279]

It was criminal what they did to Germany! A damn shame.

[@sugargliderdude]

poor germans :(

[@Wilhelm322]

They didn’t only do that to the Germans the Austrians also lost many historic buildings to bombing.

[@juicyfruit4378]

And it was equally criminal what Germany did to Coventry, London, Rotterdam and Warsaw to name a few

[@patrickgelder-ph5yd]

If a person views our reality in the holistic sense (who is unbiased right?) that person will be able to understand, ...... no country or nation is innocent of war and it's crimes. Now, relax.

[@juicyfruit4378]

exactly my point to begin with - one cannot judge one country's wartime actions over another when ALL of them have committed crimes in one shape or another....chill out @@patrickgelder-ph5yd

[@engelt1969]

Ein Trauriger Anblick... Was für ein Baulicher Verlust für Dresden 😢

[@schienenlaufer697]

I first saw Dresden in 1960 - it exactly looked that way.

[@stoshbeast1]

It took them that long clean up the rubble??

[@schienenlaufer697]

@@stoshbeast1 Most of the rubble had already been cleaned up, but where the buildings had stood, was then an emptyness. Then came modern buildings and during the last 30 years, after the reunion of Germany, they tried to reconstruct older (and more beautiful) houses.

[@kniespel6243]

Very sad what was there. And shame even today for those who did it that.

[@kniespel6243]

@@Lynx-q3j of course. Shame also for allies for destroying entire german cities with civilians. Shame for all ! Germans or allies.

[@doctorsocrates4413]

I am from england and nobody from RAF bomber command involved in operation gomarrah is still alive..they passed away with dignity.

[@kniespel6243]

@@doctorsocrates4413 sad. Some of them maybe was haunted by all dead women and children from Dresda. I hope !

[@doctorsocrates4413]

@@kniespel6243 It was an event in the world of that period..a world war..whether the scale of this bombing was justified i have no idea..yes it is unfortunate civilians died.

[@curiouslyme524]

Dresden is still being built up today.

[@matejjjjjjjjjjjjjjj]

I'm married to Germany and an awesome German lady I met in Tubingen the school change. Now learned enought to šperk casually, I love it here.

[@matejjjjjjjjjjjjjjj]

Die Blue Winder /blue wonder/,,, masterpiece of 19th century engineering, if someone here, visit the Elbe valley

[@matejjjjjjjjjjjjjjj]

Blaue Wunder..thanks auto corrections... See that every morning

[@Anonymous-yx3jf]

WWII..apart from terrible human suffering also these great cities were destroyed. So sad

[@sugargliderdude]

can you post a video about the seige of Leningrad please, where the germans starved to death 2 million men woman and children, thanks

[@GERMANHISTORYARCHIVE]

sure we will do

[@doctorsocrates4413]

They won't do that..this video is purely to incite sympathy from the viewer...

[@stardust9504]

Lenin and Stalin killed a lot of their own people i see the seige of Leningrad more as an liberation effort.

[@klausbohlert6613]

Das war auch ein riesiges Verbrechen,deshalb nie wieder Krieg von deutschem Boden.Deutsche und Russen müssen Freunde sein,andere Freunde hat Deutschland in der Welt nicht.

[@HistoryNiche]

A question on this topic I ponder if part of the reason for the heavy bombing was to support but also warn the Russians.

[@2.Panzerdivision]

There's a letter from the office of Churchill which I'll transcribe here: "It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed. Otherwise we shall come into control of an utterly ruined land. We shall not, for instance, be able to get housing materials out of Germany for our own needs because some temporary provision would have to be made for the Germans themselves. The destruction of Dresden remains a serious query against the conduct of Allied bombing. I am of the opinion that military objectives must henceforth be more strictly studied in our own interests rather than that of the enemy."

[@johnsmith11839]

330k people in 15 hours mostly refugees

[@michaelengel3407]

Dresden or any other city in germany at those times.

[@bobmar1442]

Gaza 😔

[@EliCohen4283]

LOL

[@pinkdulin7641]

It definetly has its very own calming magic and beauty this way

[@collenfisher3635]

Another Allied war crime. But no, they are untouchable....Horoshima and Nagasaki another crime....

[@schienenlaufer697]

Yes, we lost the war - so we are guilty in every respect.

[@henryseidel5469]

I wonder what such war crimes would have been called if the Russians had committed them. If committed by Americans they are usually called 'regrettable collateral damage'. Shame !

[@MSM4U2POM]

An odd thing to say, when area bombing was perfectly legal until the Special Ammendment to the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 in 1977. How did you work that one out?

[@henryseidel5469]

@@MSM4U2POM Didn't Iraq, Lybia and Yugoslavia happen after 1977 ?? Do you need 'amendments' to judge if mass murder is legal or not ?

[@MSM4U2POM]

@@henryseidel5469 You don't necessarily need ammendments, but you do need existing law, my friend. The Special Ammendment is not retrospective, so it does not cover events that preceed it. A war crime is a very specific thing, and it can only be established in a court of law - not the court of public opinion.

[@KRAKEN_SOF]

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[@corleone5382]

spoils of war..😢😢