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  • RAF heavy bombers are seen dropping bombs over Dresden, Germany toward the end of World War II in this remarkable archive footage from 1945.
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    Full title reads: "DRESDEN BOMBED TO ATOMS".
    Dresden, Germany.
    Several shots of formation of Lancaster planes in flight. Close up shot of propellor of Lancaster spinning while plane is in flight. Aerial night shots of bombs bursting, incendiary fires and antiaircraft fire during bombing raid Dresden.
    Aerial shots of formation of Flying Fortresses with vapour trails - day after the RAF (Royal Air Force) bombing. Close up shot of Flying Fortress in flight. Aerial shots of bombs leaving plane and falling on Dresden.
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  • @francescotonello3715
    @francescotonello3715 Рік тому +420

    My great uncle served in Italy’s campaign in Greece. After the armistice, he tried to come back to Italy but was apprehended by the germans, which imprisoned him in a concentration camp more than 50 kms away from Dresden. He told stories about how they could see the lights of the bombs and feel the ground shake from where they stood during the bombing. Thankfully he was able to survive the camps and died peacefully in 1998

    • @MarkHarrison733
      @MarkHarrison733 Рік тому +36

      He should have fought against the Communists until the very end.

    • @statesofbeing888
      @statesofbeing888 Рік тому

      Parla Italiano allora, cazzo parli Inglese?

    • @BlauerBooo
      @BlauerBooo Рік тому +11

      One of my grandpas also died in 1998, born 1922. He was a German soldier on the western front in France 1941, as he came from Westphalia. My other grandpa was born 1923 and died in 2011. He served on the eastern front in Russia, actually most of the time in today's Ukraine from 1942 onwards. He came from east Germany, Cottbus, and after the war studied in nearby Dresden. Students to enroll at university had to work a certain amount of ours to rebuild university schooling rooms (also in other parts of Germany).
      Why was your great uncle imprisoned then?

    • @patriciabrenner9216
      @patriciabrenner9216 Рік тому +9

      @@BlauerBooo Pity any of these criminals survived the war.

    • @BlauerBooo
      @BlauerBooo Рік тому +27

      @@patriciabrenner9216 Pity that you only wish other people's death somehow ^^
      Damning all kind of war crimes and genocides is important, thats one thing. Being opposed to war in general is good too, it is another thing. Being called in as a soldier despite your own views and under certain social and historical circumstances is a third thing. A woman can have a big mouth on that.

  • @ltcarlsen2152
    @ltcarlsen2152 Рік тому +388

    "No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Goering, you can call me Meyer."
    -Hermann Meyer
    Chief of the "Luftwaffe"

    • @wilfredochalas4047
      @wilfredochalas4047 Рік тому +3

      I heard that phrase so many times before and never understood the meaning of it. Good one!

    • @JohnMcDonald-ef5gz
      @JohnMcDonald-ef5gz Рік тому +16

      "When I saw those P 51's over Berlin I knew the jig was up''. Hermann Goering to his Allied captors.

    • @fenrirauffahrt272
      @fenrirauffahrt272 Рік тому

      Ja das waren Kriminelle - aber bezahlt hat die Zivilbevölkerung und der feine Zigarrenraucher Mr. Churchill war genau so Kriminell!

    • @JohnMcDonald-ef5gz
      @JohnMcDonald-ef5gz 11 місяців тому

      "When I saw those P-51's over Berlin I knew the jig was up,'' Hermann Goering to his Allied captors.

    • @mr.gigagod9736
      @mr.gigagod9736 10 місяців тому +2

      Based of your profile, your clearing trying to victimize the nazis.

  • @giannidalessio1100
    @giannidalessio1100 Рік тому +374

    Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaky, Stalin crimes were not crimes against humanity for a simple fact...the winners write history.

    • @maxbrazil3712
      @maxbrazil3712 Рік тому +35

      Who would you have sided with, if you had the choice? The Allies or the Axis?

    • @Andrew_Alxf
      @Andrew_Alxf Рік тому +115

      "The winners write history" 🤡

    • @Oxnaforda
      @Oxnaforda Рік тому

      Italians were the worst military in ww2, ran away half the time got rodgered when they did fight and then switched sides. I can see why your salty about the history of ww2 because your country were an embarrassment.

    • @troublemakerrr7787
      @troublemakerrr7787 Рік тому +12

      Someone has to write it

    • @MarkHarrison733
      @MarkHarrison733 Рік тому +4

      @@Oxnaforda Mussolini ensured the British Empire did not survive.

  • @FuzzyWuzzy75
    @FuzzyWuzzy75 Рік тому +130

    I can't imagine anything much more terrifying than being caught on the wrong end of a carpet bombing.

    • @argustuft2394
      @argustuft2394 Рік тому

      Being herded naked into a room and gassed with a commercial pest insecticide at Auschwitz?

    • @ffggcvcfcgvcf492
      @ffggcvcfcgvcf492 Рік тому +25

      Being herded into a gas chamber???

    • @argustuft2394
      @argustuft2394 Рік тому +1

      @@ffggcvcfcgvcf492 Yes. Duh.

    • @MarkHarrison733
      @MarkHarrison733 Рік тому +22

      @@argustuft2394 That never happened.

    • @MarkHarrison733
      @MarkHarrison733 Рік тому +18

      @@ffggcvcfcgvcf492 They were built by the Soviets after the war.

  • @mrcaboosevg6089
    @mrcaboosevg6089 2 роки тому +429

    It was a terrible thing but it must have been unbelievable to see it for yourself, a whole city in flames

    • @equallywrong
      @equallywrong 2 роки тому +66

      I would never want to see something like this for myself, never.

    • @highwaymoses
      @highwaymoses 2 роки тому +16

      from my grandfather's logbook "13. 02. 45. Hardly any opposition. Target only. 70 miles from russian lines at Breslau. City a mass of flames. Inspiring sight. Made a wide circuit of the target to give boys a peep"

    • @Attmay
      @Attmay 2 роки тому +15

      This is what you get for trying to systematically eliminate God’s chosen people and if you try it again you will get even worse.

    • @QuestionEverythingAssumeNothng
      @QuestionEverythingAssumeNothng 2 роки тому

      @@Attmay says the who? The history books? The people who rule the world and consider us normal people as trash? History is never taught properly in schools, public or home. It is up to the individual to judge both sides of the story, not just the one we are indoctrinated with yearly.

    • @NoNamePerson98
      @NoNamePerson98 2 роки тому

      @@equallywrong Well now is very possible

  • @christophergwin1986
    @christophergwin1986 2 роки тому +433

    Historians are still arguing over the number of deaths. But look at those firestorms. There is just no way only 25-40k people died; it was well North of that, easily. Dresden had its own population and was filled with refugees and military ready to ship out to Russia. Where were people to go to escape those firestorms and scorching heat? Nowhere.

    • @dangibbs5390
      @dangibbs5390 2 роки тому

      My theory lately is maybe this raid was given the go ahead to kill as many people as possible who escaped from east to prevent them revealing the truth about Russian crimes. Maybe not, whatever the reason it can't be justified.

    • @QuestionEverythingAssumeNothng
      @QuestionEverythingAssumeNothng 2 роки тому +30

      Imagine getting boiled alive by just heat and the river.

    • @MrTomcun
      @MrTomcun 2 роки тому +31

      I suppose they now say that number and not 200.000 anymore because the US is their ally now. But no idea.

    • @settekwan2708
      @settekwan2708 2 роки тому

      I'm afriad you have been a victim of post war propaganda. Check out Kraut's video on this subject.

    • @birdpirch85
      @birdpirch85 Рік тому +2

      Goebbels added a zero but go ahead and keep defending people that dug their own graves by turning the other cheek to their dictator’s atrocities

  • @ninasju
    @ninasju Рік тому +287

    On my tour through Dresden, they said desperate people were jumping into fountains, only to die instantly as the water was boiling at over 1,000° Fahrenheit. Horrifying.

    • @patriciabrenner9216
      @patriciabrenner9216 Рік тому +1

      Not more horrifying as the people that died in the gaz chambers of Auschwitz.

    • @ninasju
      @ninasju Рік тому +25

      @@patriciabrenner9216 Both utterly horrifying. One doesn't cancel out the other.

    • @patriciabrenner9216
      @patriciabrenner9216 Рік тому +20

      @@ninasju One is the retribution for the other

    • @Yimello
      @Yimello Рік тому +78

      Don't you see what's wrong with the statement "water was boiling at over 1,000° Fahrenheit"?

    • @lancegardner8560
      @lancegardner8560 Рік тому

      Total bullshit.

  • @DerRueckenMark
    @DerRueckenMark Рік тому +80

    my great-grandmother even saw Dresden burning in Bautzen, miles away.

    • @africanlipplateandbonenose3223
      @africanlipplateandbonenose3223 10 місяців тому +15

      a war crime that was unpunished

    • @techno3915
      @techno3915 7 місяців тому +15

      Nie vergessen 🕯

    • @EINechterKARL
      @EINechterKARL 6 місяців тому +1

      @@africanlipplateandbonenose3223 Dresden bombing was a war crime, like Hiroshima was. Also Germany's and Russia's eliminating prisoners of war were war crimes. - There is no war without war crimes, also if one calls them "collateral damage". That's euphemistic but doesn't change fhe facts.

    • @EINechterKARL
      @EINechterKARL 6 місяців тому +2

      My mother (born 1936) left Dresden in the last train, that train stopped and turned out the lights, so she also saw Dresden burning.

    • @LarsTragel-zh7ei
      @LarsTragel-zh7ei 5 місяців тому

      Nazis are whining.

  • @Jonesyb90
    @Jonesyb90 29 днів тому +9

    It amazes me how people when mentioning Dresden don’t understand what happened to Coventry, London, Portsmouth, Southampton, Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester, Hull etc. It’s quite incredible that people don’t comprehend how much worse the bombing of Tokyo was to this. Complaining about war crimes, don’t see the residents of the British cities complaining about war crimes 80 + years later.

    • @abramizaackaplan6723
      @abramizaackaplan6723 28 днів тому

      It’s because the post WW2 era is coming to an end as we enter a new world order, and every crank amateur revisionist historian is coming out of the woodwork to redefine the narrative of WW2. It’s similar to the cycle of generational rebellion of children against parents except on steroids, and spanning a long adult lifetime as opposed to a 20-30 year cycle. Nothing is sacred, and no deeply held narrative is safe. Reality and truth are up for grabs. It’s sad, and hopefully the truth of who the “good guys” and “the bad guys” were in this conflict will be defended and upheld.

    • @EJisArete
      @EJisArete 26 днів тому

      Dresden and the follow up called "operation Blowback" were meant to ensure there would be no German refugees. Firebombs were implemented. Dresden was a spectacle like none preceding it.
      The reason we don't mention the British target cities is that those have been reported for a long time at the exclusion of discussion about the Allied leveling of European cities. The German ones being just a portion of it.

    • @michelrobin4508
      @michelrobin4508 21 день тому

      Les bombardements sur les villes britanniques n'ont pas été d'une intensité aussi brutale même si vous avez raison de le souligner .
      Le Bombardement de Dresde est un Crime .
      Cela n'excuse pas bien sur les crimes des Nazis.
      L'objectif aussi c'était de montrer à Staline une Menace

    • @Die-Sophie
      @Die-Sophie 21 день тому

      @@EJisArete
      Wie kommst du auf solche Lügen?

    • @EJisArete
      @EJisArete 20 днів тому

      @@Die-Sophie Ich verwende Quellen, die von linken Akademikern nicht genehmigt wurden.
      Warum sollte man die Anhänger der kommunistischen und der Weltregierung ernst nehmen, wäre meine Frage an Sie.

  • @lucasgruber4995
    @lucasgruber4995 2 роки тому +417

    My great grandpa was 16 and in the Waffen SS by that time, he had to search for bodies in the burnt and collapsed buildings and afterwards never talked about it again and cried every time when he did. He didn't wanna have something to do with this time and even cut out his tattoos with his blood-type and number

    • @concernedcitizen2249
      @concernedcitizen2249 2 роки тому +42

      Traumatized forever

    • @eliw.1197
      @eliw.1197 2 роки тому +16

      At least he survived and lived long.

    • @doma7956
      @doma7956 2 роки тому +161

      Just what the luftwaffe did to my city, Coventry. This was deserved revenge.

    • @zackdeew9757
      @zackdeew9757 2 роки тому +33

      considered ur great grandpa was a very lucky lad,, Soviet red army, French army or even sometimes GI would 3x3cuted SS on sight whether they surrender or not

    • @freeeggs3811
      @freeeggs3811 2 роки тому +2

      @@doma7956 you guys were probably killing and oppressing German minorities, so you deserve everything that happened to you.

  • @patrickt7
    @patrickt7 2 роки тому +210

    It's interesting to note that, as this and other Allied bombing raids took place across Germany, the Ministry of Propaganda was still actively producing films (under "Die Deustche Wochenschau") claiming that the war was in Germany's favor. The last Wochenschau film from March 20th, 1945 even showed Hitler himself in Berlin. I highly recommend viewing these late-war films because it shows the last months of the war from a unique perspective.

    • @WynnofThule
      @WynnofThule 2 роки тому +22

      Classic vintage copium, just like grandpa used to have it

    • @sonatine3266
      @sonatine3266 Рік тому +35

      I'm German. I was in hospital in 2017 for a month. I had an surprisingly fit 89 years old man on my room, who told me stories about WW2 (like how he was able to avoid the Hitlerjugend etc.) and he said in the radio you would hear that the war is going great, that the victory would be close and then finally you would see armed Russian soldiers walking down the streets and you would need to run, since they also shot many civilians. It's really crazy how they lied to the population for so long and how they were able to hide concentration camps and the real bad stuff from like 90% of the military. Hitler and his men didn't trust ANYONE except the SS.

    • @josephastier7421
      @josephastier7421 Рік тому +8

      Baghdad Bob was hilarious in 2003. He was on live TV saying how Iraq was winning the war and the Americans were so close they almost nabbed him during his report.

    • @salamyaya162
      @salamyaya162 Рік тому

      ​@@josephastier7421
      2003, not 1991

    • @josephastier7421
      @josephastier7421 Рік тому +1

      @@salamyaya162 Indeed. I have corrected the post. Thank you!

  • @bavariandave5627
    @bavariandave5627 7 місяців тому +166

    War crimes remain war crimes, no matter how you try to justify them...

    • @batman6540
      @batman6540 7 місяців тому +1

      Yes...also those who were tried to be excused with others. Like the fev hitler supporters being killed in Dresden against all the millions that died in the KZs and battlefields that Hitler started...

    • @Johnnygold332
      @Johnnygold332 5 місяців тому

      Easy to say as a german. Why did germans destroy Warsaw and Rotterdam?
      Every action gets a reaction.
      Only the germans are to blame. Shouldnt start ww2 and Dresden would be Beautiful but germans wanted war

    • @facunqn1012
      @facunqn1012 5 місяців тому

      The Allies where the biggest war criminals in history.

    • @Angelcynn_2001
      @Angelcynn_2001 5 місяців тому +6

      As an Englishman, if I cannot speak of the Blitz....
      My girlfriend is Belarusian.

    • @bavariandave5627
      @bavariandave5627 5 місяців тому +12

      @@Angelcynn_2001 What's your point exactly?

  • @Lagerttha
    @Lagerttha Рік тому +86

    Dresden? There is not such a place any longer." "I want to point out, that besides Essen, we never actually considered any particular industrial sites as targets. The destruction of industrial sites always was some sort of bonus for us. Our real targets always were the inner cities.
    - Arthur Harris

    • @doctorsocrates4413
      @doctorsocrates4413 Рік тому +12

      So where were the industrial units in the pool of london please.?...Name one legitimate military or munitions factories in central london.

    • @Ah01
      @Ah01 Рік тому +28

      @@doctorsocrates4413Brits could have been morally better than the germans, but failed to do that.

    • @Ben942K
      @Ben942K Рік тому +13

      @@Ah01 what a joy we weren't alive to make these decisions for our society. The moral high ground is bonkers when one starts killing someone else's people.
      Any action to stop legitimate threat and a peer at that is acceptable.

    • @Ah01
      @Ah01 Рік тому +2

      @@Ben942K Yes, it can be called moral high ground, if you will. It can also be, that those commenting from the safety and comfort of any western country may have different perspective and family history concerning the slavery, that sovjets (and their western cronies) provided for us east europeans.

    • @Ben942K
      @Ben942K Рік тому +7

      @@Ah01 As I said... The moral high ground isn't present in war and it's naive, judging from history, to believe one side should. While they absolutely could, thankfully we didn't need to make those decisions while facing a serious threat from people were looking to conquer more people.

  • @El_Presidente_5337
    @El_Presidente_5337 2 роки тому +99

    Actual bomber pilots in WW2:
    Jesus Christ what we have unleashed hell down there on innocent mother's and children!
    Their grandkids:
    🤓 Well actually it was deserved because they did it first.
    This goes for both sides.

    • @nparsona
      @nparsona 2 роки тому

      How on Earth does this go for both sides? What kind of twisted thinking is that?
      Brits: This will pay them back for bombing civilians in Belgium, the Netherlands and London and starting the war in Europe!
      Nazis: We will bomb them because they did not surrender and just go quietly to the gas chambers when we started the war!

    • @Attmay
      @Attmay 2 роки тому +13

      Bothsidesism is whataboutism.

    • @Attmay
      @Attmay 2 роки тому +7

      Their grandkids’ grandkids’ will be speaking Russian and Hebrew.

    • @QuestionEverythingAssumeNothng
      @QuestionEverythingAssumeNothng 2 роки тому +1

      @@Attmay Europa The Last Battle documentary I assume?

    • @jaidengabriel1675
      @jaidengabriel1675 2 роки тому

      @@Attmay ???

  • @Gundal66
    @Gundal66 2 роки тому +69

    "After this Hitler will need to look at the substitute for the substitute" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @petermacander2061
      @petermacander2061 2 роки тому

      Hitler couldn't have cared less what happened to the German people. It was all about his own unbridled selfish ego.

  • @neozeon2567
    @neozeon2567 2 роки тому +26

    This is Germany version of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    • @MrBeeMAD
      @MrBeeMAD 2 роки тому +6

      Actually it's worse than Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And atomic bombing could be understood, because Japanese planned to drop a bio bomb on California. And also because Soviets could invade and capture Japan. But Dresden is not so important city to bomb into dust is, of course superfluous.

    • @shad0w_g4ming
      @shad0w_g4ming Місяць тому +1

      ​@MrBeeMAD meanwhile Germany planned to strike America and Britain with High powered ICBMs from U boats. There is a reason why they went after them...

  • @JohnH-mo5mb
    @JohnH-mo5mb 8 місяців тому +35

    They were even proud of their war crimes against defenseless civilians.

    • @deeks1205
      @deeks1205 7 місяців тому +1

      Yep sickening, there was no need to bomb dresden and it was over crowed with refugees.

    • @adamsons2890
      @adamsons2890 7 місяців тому

      I wouldn’t say they were proud at all. It’s called strategic bombing.
      Remember, the Nazis started WW2

    • @MarkHarrison733
      @MarkHarrison733 3 місяці тому

      @@adamsons2890 Britain and France started both world wars.

    • @toohdvaetihom7088
      @toohdvaetihom7088 3 місяці тому +2

      Based

  • @19katherine1213
    @19katherine1213 2 роки тому +44

    It’s not a war crime if you win…

    • @QuestionEverythingAssumeNothng
      @QuestionEverythingAssumeNothng 2 роки тому +18

      History belongs to the victor

    • @LukeLovesRose
      @LukeLovesRose 2 роки тому +1

      And the worst people possible won WW2. Look at Pride Month

    • @Jade-tf5kb
      @Jade-tf5kb 9 місяців тому +1

      @@QuestionEverythingAssumeNothng it’s also not a war crime if you are responding it’s called replaying the favour.

    • @haitiballmapping6884
      @haitiballmapping6884 8 місяців тому

      @@QuestionEverythingAssumeNothngso that’s why they had Nazi generals right the history of the eastern front?

    • @henryseidel5469
      @henryseidel5469 6 місяців тому

      @@QuestionEverythingAssumeNothng But the stinking truth will always come up from under the carpet after a while.

  • @Prfdt3
    @Prfdt3 7 місяців тому +57

    So called GOOD people do these things and pat themselves on the back.

    • @harleycutedog3104
      @harleycutedog3104 6 місяців тому +3

      Yep

    • @judahgonzalez9850
      @judahgonzalez9850 4 місяці тому +6

      MERICA RAHHHH 🦅🦅🦅🦅

    • @WalterModel45
      @WalterModel45 4 місяці тому

      Yws

    • @Ihavpickle
      @Ihavpickle 3 місяці тому +5

      I don't think the call themselves good people, however do you understand why they bombed dresden?

    • @frankkovacs6214
      @frankkovacs6214 29 днів тому

      @@Ihavpickle Orders. They will obey orders to do anything at all, history proves it.

  • @MIS315
    @MIS315 7 місяців тому +35

    Imagine being proud of this

    • @howtodobyanidiot595
      @howtodobyanidiot595 7 місяців тому +14

      Because it was a military target with 50,00 factory workers, railway hubs, hundreds of military bases,etc.

    • @MIS315
      @MIS315 7 місяців тому +11

      @@howtodobyanidiot595 Not to mention tens of thousands of civilians!

    • @fuwa9616
      @fuwa9616 7 місяців тому +2

      They are proud of going after a bunch of starving civilians trying to get food from an aid truck.

    • @harleycutedog3104
      @harleycutedog3104 6 місяців тому

      Yep

    • @howtodobyanidiot595
      @howtodobyanidiot595 6 місяців тому

      @@harleycutedog3104 Did you even read my comment you Nazi moron?

  • @KimPhilby203
    @KimPhilby203 Рік тому +16

    Germany brought this on itself....

    • @rosesprog1722
      @rosesprog1722 Рік тому +10

      No.

    • @patriciabrenner9216
      @patriciabrenner9216 Рік тому +1

      Of course it did. They thought murdering, bombing and stealing all over Europe was their right and they wouldn't face a reckoning.

    • @MarkHarrison733
      @MarkHarrison733 Рік тому

      @@patriciabrenner9216 That was the USSR.

    • @mrcaboosevg6089
      @mrcaboosevg6089 2 дні тому

      @@rosesprog1722 Poland, France, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Morocco, Italy, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium... The list of German aggression is endless. They should have given up to avoid the total destruction of Germany but they didn't, they waited until Germany was in ruin and there were 2.5 million angry Russians in Berlin to give up

    • @rosesprog1722
      @rosesprog1722 2 дні тому

      @@mrcaboosevg6089 If you go a little deeper you will see that the British refused every peace offer sent to them and that they made promises to most European countries that they had no intention to keep or couldn't keep like they had done to the Poles in March 1939, just as they were about to finalize an agreement with the Germans, which led to the Poles cancelling the German deal and, thinking the British would join the fight, began to attack the Germans at every occasion. As to the Soviets, they had already invaded all the regions between them and western Europe except Germany and the region of Romania from where the Germans imported their oil, leaving the Germans no choice. And, by the way, without US help, Lend-Lease, they would likely have lost to the Germans plus Stalin had already made a deal with Churchill behind Hitler's back but Hitler found out about it so he knew it was only a matter of time, his only chance was to attack first, it was just not enough. Your version is the easy, uninformed one, the winners version, reality is much more complicated than that, and there's a reason for everything, including whatever the Germans did, hatred or Hitler's insanity have nothing to do with it, the story we were all told says the allies didn't commit any war crime, do you really believe that?

  • @champagnegascogne9755
    @champagnegascogne9755 Рік тому +44

    The same inferno can be felt on Kobe and Tokyo on the same year.

  • @malicant123
    @malicant123 5 місяців тому +17

    Seeing European cities bombed to dust in WW2 has to be one of the most tragic images of all time. Europe was TRASHED in WW2, and for what?

    • @MarkHarrison733
      @MarkHarrison733 5 місяців тому +7

      For Wall Street.

    • @Die-Sophie
      @Die-Sophie 5 місяців тому +4

      @@MarkHarrison733
      🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

    • @MarkHarrison733
      @MarkHarrison733 5 місяців тому +4

      @@Die-Sophie See who Churchill blamed for Communism in February 1920.

    • @Die-Sophie
      @Die-Sophie 5 місяців тому +4

      @@MarkHarrison733
      Irrelevant.

    • @MarkHarrison733
      @MarkHarrison733 5 місяців тому +3

      @@Die-Sophie It had declared war on Germany in March 1933.

  • @T3t4nu5
    @T3t4nu5 Рік тому +19

    They were proud of this

    • @NoContextEylul
      @NoContextEylul Рік тому +20

      Based people

    • @T3t4nu5
      @T3t4nu5 Рік тому +16

      @@NoContextEylul and look what it has earned them

    • @howtodobyanidiot595
      @howtodobyanidiot595 7 місяців тому

      @@T3t4nu5 Freedom for Germany, a new REDEMPTION arc for the Germans

    • @Luis-bo2uj
      @Luis-bo2uj 6 місяців тому +1

      yep, there are warcrimes and "warcrimes"

    • @MarkRiles1
      @MarkRiles1 4 місяці тому

      You will find, if you can be bothered to check, that there were massive concerns voiced in Parliament and in the media about bombing in this fashion. Churchill sent an internal memo in March 1945 questioning the value of it. Bomber Command were stigmatised for decades, with no campaign medal and no dedicated memorial until 2012. A poor thanks for the 50% casualties they suffered. So don't talk utter trash.

  • @teamcanadaicepolice
    @teamcanadaicepolice Рік тому +47

    Not a military target, allies knew this but killed 1000s of civilians, women and children anyway.

  • @Joshtow167
    @Joshtow167 2 роки тому +53

    "War is cruel you cannot refine it" William Tecumseh Sherman

    • @Attmay
      @Attmay 2 роки тому +3

      War is progressive when the enemy is not.

    • @davespiller684
      @davespiller684 Рік тому +2

      Except that most civilisations have, to some extent at any rate. Sherman is literally one of the most famous butchers of civilians in history, so he would say that, wouldn't he?

    • @LarryDaLobstah
      @LarryDaLobstah Рік тому +5

      @@davespiller684 Sherman considered a civilian butcher???? 😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @davespiller684
      @davespiller684 Рік тому +5

      @@LarryDaLobstah He wrote:
      '"we must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children."
      And: "during an assault, the soldiers can not pause to distinguish between male and female, or even discriminate as to age."

    • @baneofbanes
      @baneofbanes 6 місяців тому

      @@davespiller684yah that’s literal propaganda you realize that right?

  • @ncrtrooper7648
    @ncrtrooper7648 5 місяців тому +72

    among the biggest warcrimes commited by the british and americans during ww2

    • @tranhuuluan7973
      @tranhuuluan7973 3 місяці тому +32

      Try to keep crying because no one cares

    • @wtjobe
      @wtjobe 3 місяці тому

      ​@@tranhuuluan7973No one cares about 25.000 deaths and destroyed cultural heritage? I dont think so.

    • @alejo7625
      @alejo7625 3 місяці тому

      ​@@tranhuuluan7973OK britshit

    • @TheResilient5689
      @TheResilient5689 3 місяці тому +31

      Oh please. The Nazis have no right to complain after what they did to London, Warsaw, and Leningrad.
      Among others, you know.

    • @Wolfspaine7N6
      @Wolfspaine7N6 2 місяці тому

      ​@@TheResilient5689 by Nazis you mean an entire civilian city full of women and children?

  • @abufalafel1194
    @abufalafel1194 11 місяців тому +14

    Meanwhile in Palestine:

    • @sakura-oj5pu
      @sakura-oj5pu 11 місяців тому +8

      Came here because gaza reminded me of that

  • @henryseidel5469
    @henryseidel5469 6 місяців тому +12

    Narrator turning a horrible war - crime against humanity into a heroic achievement. Disgusting !

  • @Tom_Cruise_Missile
    @Tom_Cruise_Missile Рік тому +16

    Germany met the whirlwind, and they deserved it all.

    • @askandersson5754
      @askandersson5754 Рік тому +1

      I recommend you watching Europa the last battle you can find it on odyssey

    • @istaag8929
      @istaag8929 Рік тому

      What the hell is wrong with you? You're sick man

    • @Tom_Cruise_Missile
      @Tom_Cruise_Missile Рік тому +1

      @@istaag8929 Don't try to take over the world and commit mass genocide if you're not ready to get burned to the ground ;)

    • @istaag8929
      @istaag8929 Рік тому +1

      @@Tom_Cruise_Missile well how about if I said that the whole thing was engineered by the very same people who cried wolf. The only sad part about it is the people who really suffered are the civilians of Germany, Russia, england.. ECT and not their generals who were part of the plot. Remember Germany our tribal society no way, were they all of a sudden United against a cause. This was way above and beyond that and was bankrolled by the very same....... wolf

    • @istaag8929
      @istaag8929 Рік тому +1

      @@Tom_Cruise_Missile take that with a warm milk son

  • @traditionalsalmon2759
    @traditionalsalmon2759 Рік тому +12

    that is terrifying

  • @ChiGuy1837
    @ChiGuy1837 10 місяців тому +6

    Blame it on Hitler not the US 😂I can't imagine what the men coming back from war would say about this video if it came out in the 40s....and what your grandparents/great grandparents would do to you if you told them you supported this video.

    • @MarkHarrison733
      @MarkHarrison733 10 місяців тому +12

      My grandfather served in World War II. He said we should never have declared war on Germany.

    • @TankMasterGo
      @TankMasterGo 9 місяців тому +1

      ​@@MarkHarrison733
      Where are you from?

    • @MarkHarrison733
      @MarkHarrison733 9 місяців тому +3

      @@TankMasterGo The UK.

    • @robertclive491
      @robertclive491 5 місяців тому

      @@MarkHarrison733 Traitor.

  • @jjvv7578
    @jjvv7578 2 роки тому +141

    Crime against humanity .

    • @patriciabrenner9216
      @patriciabrenner9216 2 роки тому +52

      Actually sweet retribution for German crimes.

    • @brockenbrain3983
      @brockenbrain3983 2 роки тому +36

      @@patriciabrenner9216 So it's okay to punish injustice with injustice? With this attitude history will only repeat itself, please reconsider your opinion.

    • @daviskaya100
      @daviskaya100 2 роки тому +2

      Tell that to the victims of Auschwitz.

    • @ajcso7844
      @ajcso7844 2 роки тому +14

      You need to learn the difference between normal war and war crimes.

    • @daviskaya100
      @daviskaya100 2 роки тому +1

      @@ajcso7844 you need to learn the difference between a normal war and total war. So the British should sit back and let the nazis destroy their cites and do nothing? Thank god you weren’t running the country.

  • @LeftIsBest001
    @LeftIsBest001 11 місяців тому +25

    This was a war crime.

    • @michaelengel3407
      @michaelengel3407 11 місяців тому

      All air raids against civilians were war crime.

    • @MarkHarrison733
      @MarkHarrison733 10 місяців тому +2

      @@michaelengel3407 Churchill began civilian bombing.

    • @omwando1
      @omwando1 9 місяців тому

      @@MarkHarrison733But didn’t Hitler order the bombing of civilians in Poland?

    • @paul9709
      @paul9709 8 місяців тому

      It was a very smart move by the allies. Apparently U.K. intelligence was spreading rumours that they would never bomb Dresden because Churchill had a family member living there . He knew all the Nazi generals would go there to hide etc

    • @brandspro
      @brandspro 8 місяців тому

      🤡

  • @jonnystenstrand3713
    @jonnystenstrand3713 2 роки тому +42

    A crime against humanity! God bless those innocent german souls killed by evil!

    • @matthewdrexler188
      @matthewdrexler188 2 роки тому +1

      cause and effect, there was a saying about eyes.... anyway a population complacent to mass murder will unavoidably see a return on their investment manifest. thou shall not kill means period! this is an example of cause and effect. the moment someone starts the evil cycle of violence it will build like a fire as long as people are there to fan the flames. of course its all horrible but evil begets evil remember that. anyone can be caught in the crossfire at any magnitude of evil not just the ones that are so massive they trick you into thinking this isn't part of human nature. This must be understood instead of talked down to. that mindset separates us from our recent ancestors and tricks us into believing the actions of the previous generation were that of some protohuman animal when they are the same people we are and the same people that will follow us. the next gen will sound off similar completely useless emotional sentiment about todays crimes and the cycle will continue because we are not trying to understand the complete nuanced details of a severely complicated situation. my point. everyones hands were in the cookie jar that year giving absolute condemnation to events that shaped exactly where everything lay in the present is just foolish. The point is to understand not condemn. and dont mistake understanding for justification. No killing is justified if you believe what human faiths have to say.

    • @somerandomboibackup6086
      @somerandomboibackup6086 2 роки тому +1

      It was a war, and the german crime was not stopping their dictatorship from massacring people

    • @matthewdrexler188
      @matthewdrexler188 2 роки тому

      @@somerandomboibackup6086 word

    • @Feroxing12
      @Feroxing12 2 роки тому +11

      innocent? seriously?

    • @LukeLovesRose
      @LukeLovesRose 2 роки тому +1

      @@Feroxing12 Yes. And Germany was trying to save Europe from the evils of Communism. So not only were we murdering innocent people here, we were murdering heroes

  • @PBI45
    @PBI45 2 роки тому +114

    Arthur "Trollin" Harris 😎

    • @jamaphy8621
      @jamaphy8621 2 роки тому +28

      Based Harris

    • @pevlez
      @pevlez 2 роки тому +7

      Arthur RAF "litAF" Harris

    • @hardbassmonkey
      @hardbassmonkey 2 роки тому +12

      ...isn't a hero

    • @Carl_ATHF
      @Carl_ATHF 2 роки тому +6

      You’re a literal horrible kid, no doubt you laugh at dismembered babies after an abortion

    • @thebravest2332
      @thebravest2332 2 роки тому +13

      @@hardbassmonkey nah he’s a legend

  • @fuwa9616
    @fuwa9616 10 місяців тому +25

    Remember, that the same justification used here is what is justifying what is happening in occupied palestine.

    • @Marcus-sk2xf
      @Marcus-sk2xf 8 місяців тому +12

      What is “palestine”?

    • @ImYZN-vz3gm
      @ImYZN-vz3gm 17 днів тому

      @@Marcus-sk2xfA country that existed long before the zionist state and occupation
      My grandfather is literally OLDER than the zionist evil state
      FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸

    • @Scribe333
      @Scribe333 7 днів тому

      stfu absolutely cringe stupid take.....

  • @chotamin8752
    @chotamin8752 2 роки тому +50

    Name the legend who captured this moment in air.

  • @realitystillexists
    @realitystillexists 2 роки тому +40

    No this was a full blown civilian population of 100k men women and children. This was an actual war crime and there were several of them

    • @OleLeik
      @OleLeik 2 роки тому +16

      There was no civilian city in Germany during WW2, nor in Britain either for that matter. If a city was in military use and had military value, it was fair game.

    • @thesealord4693
      @thesealord4693 2 роки тому

      London and several cities have been bombed too killing civilians..fair game tho

    • @jeanmatthews3899
      @jeanmatthews3899 2 роки тому +1

      it's a legitimate target it has major railroad infrastructure it's being used as a staging ground the wehrmacht to do a counter attack on the soviets it also has a large industrial center making it a valid target to be bombed at

    • @NokotanFanCentral
      @NokotanFanCentral 2 роки тому

      Your username really is a fake

    • @holonow4298
      @holonow4298 2 роки тому

      Ok

  • @richardvolbrecht2935
    @richardvolbrecht2935 Рік тому +59

    Firebombing Dresden in WWII was a war crime

    • @--lp8pu
      @--lp8pu 11 місяців тому +2

      ​@@Eke1335But does that justify the bombing of innocents? I don't think it does.

    • @OhBoyOhBoy-er5ox
      @OhBoyOhBoy-er5ox 10 місяців тому

      And the Luftwaffe bombing London over and over and over was just oops we missed the air base again? The politicians and the Nazis were the real war criminals.

    • @seansmith445
      @seansmith445 10 місяців тому +1

      @@OhBoyOhBoy-er5ox London never got the treatment Dresden got, Hitler wasn't as cruel as Churchill.

    • @buckdraper303
      @buckdraper303 10 місяців тому +5

      LOLOL ... this is truly funny

    • @TankMasterGo
      @TankMasterGo 9 місяців тому +5

      ​@@seansmith445
      Warsaw:

  • @mdubz101
    @mdubz101 2 роки тому +26

    Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

    • @ralphbernhard1757
      @ralphbernhard1757 2 роки тому

      Hey, shouldn't you and your "keyboard hero"-buddies be "keyboard bombing" Russia these days?

    • @dardick1213
      @dardick1213 2 роки тому

      @@ralphbernhard1757 why you defending Russia.

    • @ralphbernhard1757
      @ralphbernhard1757 2 роки тому

      @@dardick1213 Who is "defending Russia"?

    • @henryseidel5469
      @henryseidel5469 6 місяців тому +1

      @@dardick1213The Soviets did eighty per cent of the job on the battlefield - rather than killing women and children in their houses.

    • @SharkyMcSnarkface
      @SharkyMcSnarkface 5 місяців тому +2

      @@henryseidel5469
      Bro got his history degree from Hearts of Iron IV 💀

  • @shirleyupvall9360
    @shirleyupvall9360 Рік тому +16

    I will Never forgive england for this

    • @patriciabrenner9216
      @patriciabrenner9216 Рік тому +3

      I will never forgive Germany for its crimes. Thanks G-d the Brits meted some retribution.

    • @MarkHarrison733
      @MarkHarrison733 Рік тому +1

      @@patriciabrenner9216 The Allies committed the same "crimes". So glad Ike bankrupted the UK.

    • @1977ajax
      @1977ajax Рік тому +8

      But doubtless you will forgive Germany.

    • @aceclash
      @aceclash Рік тому

      Lool

    • @updatedotexe
      @updatedotexe 3 місяці тому

      well the UK is going downhill by the week in terms of economics and such. I love Brexit

  • @Krahamus
    @Krahamus 2 роки тому +62

    Well in Poland Warsaw was bombed to atoms, so Germany got payback with Dresden

    • @shantyclips6358
      @shantyclips6358 2 роки тому

      This is why Europe will never have peace. Revenge thirsty and short sighted evil people like you. If you think revenge is a good recipe for war, you have learned nothing!

    • @acyllia5311
      @acyllia5311 Рік тому +9

      “An eye for an eye..”

    • @Sexiestmanalive01
      @Sexiestmanalive01 Рік тому +5

      Great comparison. Really dislike Polish keyboard warriors

    • @Krahamus
      @Krahamus Рік тому

      @@Sexiestmanalive01 Nobody cares what you like or dont like

    • @vanbrabant6791
      @vanbrabant6791 Рік тому +7

      As a Belgian, I have not forgotten that our vasal troops followed the French into the occupation of the German industrial area 1921-23, to impose the impossible reparations decided at the Versailes Treaty 1919, which btw Maynard Keynes had run away from in dismay. We drove Germans into hyperinflation, hunger and political madness. The RAF started bombing German cities on 11th May 1940 and went on for 3 months before the Luftwaffe retaliated in August. Before WW I, we had British Mackinder geopolitics, French vengefulness (after they had lost the war they had declared on Germany 1870) and encirclement of Germany with Russia. Here, a few kilometers from Waterloo, I know about Napoleon killing millions all over Europe till 1815. Unforgotten is a British "peaceful" colonial supercilious attitude causing misery for millions of underlings on all continents. The US Empire has been bombing everywhere for 77 years now. Today, Poles are still thankful for the part of Germany given to them by the Russians, but complain about the Russian package settlement because they want more money. No need for a holier than thou attitude in any country, I dare say.

  • @RobertRobinson-dy3rj
    @RobertRobinson-dy3rj 7 місяців тому +21

    Dresden only had women and children 😢

    • @ISRAELLIBRE
      @ISRAELLIBRE 6 місяців тому +4

      Eye for an eye

    • @harleycutedog3104
      @harleycutedog3104 6 місяців тому +3

      And

    • @harleycutedog3104
      @harleycutedog3104 6 місяців тому

      Nazi had a army of women and children they can’t get bomb but the can charge is1

    • @Die-Sophie
      @Die-Sophie 6 місяців тому +2

      Falsch

    • @wtjobe
      @wtjobe 3 місяці тому +2

      And many refugees from the east fleeing from the Soviets.

  • @Doc_Watts
    @Doc_Watts 2 роки тому +18

    Germany: “Where is Dresden?”
    America: “Gone….reduced to atoms”

    • @LukeLovesRose
      @LukeLovesRose 2 роки тому +1

      You Nephilim are sick

    • @SuperEdge67
      @SuperEdge67 8 місяців тому

      Why America……..it was the RAF that flattened Dresden. American B17 ‘light’ bombers just kept the rubble alight the next day.

  • @alfons6350
    @alfons6350 8 місяців тому +23

    This was one of the biggest crimes in history.

    • @Sam-_-
      @Sam-_- 7 місяців тому +5

      Idiotic thing to say

    • @alfons6350
      @alfons6350 7 місяців тому +1

      @@Sam-_- nope. Germany was defeated. They bombed for nothing. cultural destruction

    • @jtmachete
      @jtmachete 6 місяців тому

      True

    • @manwithnoplan89
      @manwithnoplan89 6 місяців тому

      @@alfons6350 You know that Dresden was bombed in Feb 15 and surrendered in May 7.

  • @muratsartc
    @muratsartc 2 роки тому +31

    You know this is a crime against hummanity held by Allies.

    • @Ectoplasm99999
      @Ectoplasm99999 2 роки тому +24

      “The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.”

    • @swagkachu3784
      @swagkachu3784 2 роки тому +12

      @@Ectoplasm99999 doesnt justify anything. Killing innocent children and women is a crime and no silly speech will make a difference.

    • @Krahamus
      @Krahamus 2 роки тому

      @@swagkachu3784 There is no such thing as war crimes, in every war there had been civilian casualties, read some history and you will see that since middle ages people was slaughtered during wars, war crimes are just fancy term to pretend that you are victim of war, during ww2 every nation who was at war made war crimes, Germany done with concentration camps, bombings, uk, Usa with bombings of german cities, Japanese with slaughtering people all over south east asia, Russia with rapes, executions.

    • @Attmay
      @Attmay 2 роки тому

      @@swagkachu3784 they are not innocent because they identify as citizens of a nation that tried to commit genocide against everybody was not a white heterodegenerate KKKristian.

    • @LukeLovesRose
      @LukeLovesRose 2 роки тому

      Same as what we did to the "Disarmed Enemy Forces"

  • @goscodfilmow
    @goscodfilmow Рік тому +12

    Poles from No. 300 Polish Bomber Squadron led this glorious attack 💪💪💪

  • @jtmachete
    @jtmachete 6 місяців тому +35

    War crime

    • @ISRAELLIBRE
      @ISRAELLIBRE 6 місяців тому +10

      Eye for an eye

    • @MarkHarrison733
      @MarkHarrison733 5 місяців тому +10

      @@ISRAELLIBRE Churchill began civilian bombing in World War II.

    • @Die-Sophie
      @Die-Sophie 5 місяців тому +6

      ​ @MarkHarrison733
      This is completely wrong, because Germany bombed the Polish city of Wilun on September 1st, 1939.

    • @Gersemi_Trader
      @Gersemi_Trader 3 місяці тому +5

      @@ISRAELLIBRE J3w logic

    • @rhuttner12
      @rhuttner12 3 місяці тому

      @@ISRAELLIBRESo, raping and killing women and children is justice to you? Thats how I know I don’t worship the same God as you people.

  • @aridari9168
    @aridari9168 2 роки тому +9

    they saw hell..existing on earth

  • @SharkyMcSnarkface
    @SharkyMcSnarkface 2 роки тому +41

    Arthur “Airborne Cremation for the Aryan Nation” Harris

    • @patriciabrenner9216
      @patriciabrenner9216 2 роки тому

      The Aryan nation had to be destroyed.

    • @danielflinton1899
      @danielflinton1899 2 роки тому +11

      Arthur “doing the rounds with my 4000 pounds” Harris

    • @8Lemon-Sour8
      @8Lemon-Sour8 5 місяців тому +3

      Look at "England" nowadays, this Arthur fella must be very proud of his Airborne Cremation for the Aryan Nation legacy.

  • @jimbo6059
    @jimbo6059 2 роки тому +183

    From the British perspective, all this started in late August 1940, the Germans veered off course and did not bomb the airfield they were aiming for due to low cloud cover. They ended up on the 24th August, bombing a civilian part of london. We a few days later launched a few attacks on Berlin. The first one on the 25th August did little damage, but the one on the 27th did more. I believe Hitler was not aware of the German accidental raid on British homes, so that is when he started his so called Blitzkreig on Britain and British cities. So a mistake caused all this mess and then the total war was declared afterwards when all out bombing was ordered. Sorry but it is on the internrt so please read it. The destruction of cities on an industrial scale in this war was unprecedented. Yes maybe Dresden was a war crime but so was Coventry, Rotterdam, Warsaw (twice), as well. Britsh, Polish, French, Dutch, and Belgian cities were flattened by the luftwaffe. The Russians got it bad also, with Stalingrad, the baltic states, Crimea, and even Moscow being hit. What's done is done, I would and do feel sorry for all those on all sides that were peace loving people thatgot cauggt up in the bombings, great tresures were lost forever, lots of lives too. We should now be in a posotion never to repeat this carnage.

    • @patriciabrenner9216
      @patriciabrenner9216 2 роки тому +3

      @@discontinued12934 These civilians were accessories to mass murder and mass theft. Happy this lot paid.

    • @patriciabrenner9216
      @patriciabrenner9216 2 роки тому +2

      @@discontinued12934 oh an antisemite. So banal among the German defenders.

    • @evolassunglasses4673
      @evolassunglasses4673 2 роки тому +3

      @@patriciabrenner9216 we declared war on Germany as it was heading East completely in the opposite direction to us. Germany v ruthless Stalin and Communism was always going to kick off, we didn't need to get involved.
      We lost the Empire, lots of the greatest generation and bankrupted ourselves to America. America then spent the next 70 years destroying traditional England with hypa Liberalism, Consumerism and open borders Globalisation.

    • @evolassunglasses4673
      @evolassunglasses4673 2 роки тому +8

      @@patriciabrenner9216 🤡

    • @kenwatanabe7425
      @kenwatanabe7425 2 роки тому +2

      British aims to kill civilians not armed soldier s

  • @kenwatanabe7425
    @kenwatanabe7425 2 роки тому +46

    They defeated the civilians good job

  • @qwei58
    @qwei58 7 місяців тому +7

    Due to German, Indian got independence and British Empire became quite weak 1:24

    • @qwei58
      @qwei58 7 місяців тому

      😂😂😂​@@violentvikingsfan

    • @MarkHarrison733
      @MarkHarrison733 5 місяців тому

      @@qwei58 Sebastian Haffner is correct regarding Hitler's role in decolonisation.

    • @Die-Sophie
      @Die-Sophie 5 місяців тому

      @@MarkHarrison733 Wrong

    • @MarkHarrison733
      @MarkHarrison733 5 місяців тому

      @@Die-Sophie By ending colonialism forever he changed the world more than anyone since Alexander the Great.

    • @Die-Sophie
      @Die-Sophie 5 місяців тому

      @@MarkHarrison733 Thematic context?

  • @Muusoc999
    @Muusoc999 Рік тому +28

    Unfortunate, but so was Rotterdam and Warsaw.

    • @BPFACTS88
      @BPFACTS88 Рік тому +13

      you can't compare those to Dresden.

    • @MarkHarrison733
      @MarkHarrison733 Рік тому +2

      Warsaw and Rotterdam were legitimate military targets on the front line.

    • @Napolean45
      @Napolean45 Рік тому +1

      @@BPFACTS88 Germans did the worse. They deserved what they saw in Dresden. They got what they wanted.

    • @Napolean45
      @Napolean45 Рік тому +10

      @@BPFACTS88 the good thing is that they themselves started it. Germans must be the last to cry

    • @BPFACTS88
      @BPFACTS88 Рік тому

      @@Napolean45 that is not how it works. Do you really think that the citizens of Dresden start WW2?

  • @rehnedojankekyakarloge5384
    @rehnedojankekyakarloge5384 Рік тому +7

    That's how Stalingrad, Leningrad and all the cities west of Moscow were bombed

    • @michaelengel3407
      @michaelengel3407 Рік тому +1

      You are right but does not make undone allied war crimes on Dresden. All air raids against civilians and their cities were war crime. All over europe.

    • @patriciabrenner9216
      @patriciabrenner9216 Рік тому +2

      @@michaelengel3407 No crime in Dresden. Just crtiminals getting their punishment. And there were NO innocent German. None!

    • @Megarip
      @Megarip Рік тому +1

      @@patriciabrenner9216 You are literally thinking like a nazi.
      Of course there were innocents.

    • @patriciabrenner9216
      @patriciabrenner9216 Рік тому +2

      @@Megarip No they weren't. They were either murderers and thieves or accessories to mass murder and theft.

    • @JamesRichards-mj9kw
      @JamesRichards-mj9kw Рік тому +3

      @@patriciabrenner9216 The Nazis did what the British Empire had done for centuries.

  • @Andris-ml4oo
    @Andris-ml4oo 10 місяців тому +15

    Vile and petty to say the least.
    Why was this done? Germany was collapsing by this point, and from the looks of it, the bombers paid more attention to destroying historical buildings, not the industry that supplied the army.

    • @Bigfishfun333
      @Bigfishfun333 9 місяців тому

      Blame a certain one-balled Nazi with a funny mustache - no one else.

    • @GeorgRv22
      @GeorgRv22 9 місяців тому +2

      @@Bigfishfun333I blame the British

    • @Bigfishfun333
      @Bigfishfun333 9 місяців тому

      @@GeorgRv22 I Mr. one-ball hadn't decided he really wanted to take over the world, the British would not be bombing Germany at all. He's the worst human being of ALL TIME.

    • @GeorgRv22
      @GeorgRv22 9 місяців тому +4

      @@Bigfishfun333 More allied propaganda brainrot lol

    • @AryandanBarhat
      @AryandanBarhat 7 місяців тому +2

      ​@@Bigfishfun333what is terrorism? British empire killed 200 million people in india and Africa and other part of world is called real terrorism which your education system didn't tought you in history class because as winston churchill say "history is always written by the winners "

  • @snappertiger
    @snappertiger Рік тому +22

    It was crime against humanity, most of victims were innocent children and women which nothing left from them but ashes.

    • @givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935
      @givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935 6 місяців тому

      There never was much sympathy for people who murdered entire towns and villages, who gassed children. There were no good Germans before mid May 1945.

    • @tpxchallenger
      @tpxchallenger 5 місяців тому +6

      Not like the Germans, right?

    • @augnkn93043
      @augnkn93043 5 місяців тому +5

      Like the extermination camps?

    • @facunqn1012
      @facunqn1012 5 місяців тому +1

      ​@@augnkn93043 Yeah that was a Soviet lie.

    • @Angelcynn_2001
      @Angelcynn_2001 5 місяців тому +2

      The same happened during the Blitz, my women and children buried under rubble.

  • @GeorgeDoughty-m8e
    @GeorgeDoughty-m8e 2 місяці тому +3

    Don't start fights.

    • @MarkHarrison733
      @MarkHarrison733 18 днів тому

      The UK and France began both world wars.

    • @Die-Sophie
      @Die-Sophie 17 днів тому

      ⁠ @MarkHarrison733
      Netter Witz, kleiner Neonazi! 😅

  • @grapefruitsimmons
    @grapefruitsimmons Рік тому +30

    Pure evil, they were no better than the nazis with this war crime

    • @michaelengel3407
      @michaelengel3407 Рік тому

      They must be better because they errected a statue of Arthur Harris in London.

    • @patriciabrenner9216
      @patriciabrenner9216 Рік тому

      @@michaelengel3407 He was a hero. OTH all these German so called civilians were criminals.

    • @mr.gigagod9736
      @mr.gigagod9736 10 місяців тому

      @@michaelengel3407 Japan and Germany combined killed 60 million people, the western allies AT THE ABOSOLUTE WORSE, killed less than 5 million. Of course, that 5 million (which is EXTREMELY high-balling it) is still a lot, but Japan and Germany are way worse. Also, Many neo-nazis and Werahboos still idolize and spread myths about the werchmact and Nazi Regime. Meanwhile Japan, hasn't even legally regonized there war crimes.

    • @jonathanhardy7484
      @jonathanhardy7484 5 місяців тому +5

      You bloody dragged us back for a second time

    • @briwire138
      @briwire138 5 місяців тому +7

      Do you realise that the Nazi's concentration camps were still in full operation as this raid took place. Without raids like this, they would have continued.

  • @Thor88SS
    @Thor88SS 7 місяців тому +16

    R. I. P 😢 Gott mit uns.

  • @mrjohn7262
    @mrjohn7262 9 місяців тому +6

    More propaganda than you can shake a stick at.

  • @lucasnr634
    @lucasnr634 2 роки тому +33

    War crime.

    • @ww12exclusives69
      @ww12exclusives69 2 роки тому +5

      What about French,British, Serbian, Greek and Soviet cities?

    • @lucasnr634
      @lucasnr634 2 роки тому +13

      @@ww12exclusives69 war crime too.

    • @spooky3669
      @spooky3669 2 роки тому

      The German people were Affiliates of the Nazi regime who Agreed on the "TOTALEN KRIEG"
      meaning society as a whole worked for the German War Economy.
      Therefor they gave up their title as Civilian and made them a legitimate target to stop the War Machine!!!

    • @skormm-v7z
      @skormm-v7z Рік тому +1

      Or retaliation ?

    • @josephastier7421
      @josephastier7421 Рік тому +1

      What about the London Blitz? 30k dead there and most of it burned down. Just not all on the same night.

  • @CPLGDR
    @CPLGDR 2 роки тому +47

    Arthur "Dropping Tallboys on Schoolboys" Harris

    • @footballnick2
      @footballnick2 2 роки тому +6

      Arthur Harris was a war criminal for what he did. All evidence showed the German people were not giving up yet kept bombing civilian targets.

    • @silverbullet2008bb
      @silverbullet2008bb 2 роки тому +3

      @Sebastokrator Greece should never have been invaded but it was not the Germans that invaded Greece, it was Mussolini with his big shot ego (Greco-Italian War of 1940). When he got into a mess he had to call on his German ally for help and as an ally they were obliged.
      As for genociding slavs, that's not why Germany invaded Poland. Poland was invaded because of the Polish massacres of the ethnic German minority that lived in Poland. 58,000 were killed, many in the Bromberg massacre. You can read the details in the document released at the time titled "The
      Polish atrocities against
      the German minority in Poland", compiled by Hans Schadewaldt.

    • @patriciabrenner9216
      @patriciabrenner9216 2 роки тому

      @@lovecraftcat Actually it sticked to the German criminals.

    • @dashikashi4734
      @dashikashi4734 2 роки тому +9

      @@footballnick2 Shame he didn't have more white phosphorus.

    • @daviskaya100
      @daviskaya100 2 роки тому

      @@footballnick2 what was he’s crime? Doing exactly what the Germans were doing all over Europe? It’s called total war my friend, fighting fire with fire. That is just the sad reality of war.

  • @yes-jm6xr
    @yes-jm6xr Рік тому +8

    "do you feel like a hero yet?"

  • @WorkWicket-gz3ff
    @WorkWicket-gz3ff 16 годин тому

    Just watched schindler's list for the first time. Had to search this video and watch it just to calm myself down.

  • @ahmetakyldz8214
    @ahmetakyldz8214 7 місяців тому +29

    Absolute war crimes!!

  • @Andrew_Alxf
    @Andrew_Alxf 2 роки тому +107

    Beautiful.
    They reap what they sow

    • @theinternet3585
      @theinternet3585 2 роки тому +32

      Based

    • @abbcc5996
      @abbcc5996 2 роки тому +23

      i think the same for all allied dead

    • @kayvan671
      @kayvan671 2 роки тому +21

      And now Germany is the leader of the EU and the wealthiest Country in Europe.

    • @alexandrahubscher3797
      @alexandrahubscher3797 2 роки тому

      😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

    • @johnt4768
      @johnt4768 2 роки тому +4

      @@kayvan671 Germanys economy surpassed the UKs by 1950 and has been ever since.
      As a Brit I'm glad the empire died along with the war but I'm struggling to see your point in being wealthy?

  • @neocomp92
    @neocomp92 Рік тому +18

    80 years later, nothing changes. Despite the laws of war seemingly drawing a distinction between civilian and military, we still want to neatly pack both into "good guys" & "bad guys", and justify crossing those lines.

    • @sleepydog4205
      @sleepydog4205 Рік тому +1

      ​@@patriciabrenner9216 Ach halt die Goschen Patricia hast doch echt kein peil wovon du redest

    • @patriciabrenner9216
      @patriciabrenner9216 Рік тому +2

      @@sleepydog4205 speak a civilized language which means not German.

    • @sleepydog4205
      @sleepydog4205 Рік тому +1

      @@patriciabrenner9216 shut up human-nematode

    • @Gingerphile00
      @Gingerphile00 Рік тому

      @@patriciabrenner9216 be quite you limey animal. england will pay for its crimes

    • @liqiz1755
      @liqiz1755 Рік тому +1

      @@patriciabrenner9216crimes like colonized India for centuries or stolen gold from Africa and enslaving them? Or destroying Iraq, no mass weapons found.
      Or occupied Ireland and destroyed them and wiped mostly the language out?
      You british shouldn’t talk about morality, you are war criminals too.
      Blair Too and same for you other prime ministers

  • @Velesnowak
    @Velesnowak 2 роки тому +73

    Its one crime against humanity!

    • @patriciabrenner9216
      @patriciabrenner9216 2 роки тому +40

      Its retribution. Thank you Bomber Harris

    • @kayvan671
      @kayvan671 2 роки тому +2

      Happens

    • @kayvan671
      @kayvan671 2 роки тому

      @@patriciabrenner9216
      Calm tf down, Troll.

    • @TheDeepState2001
      @TheDeepState2001 2 роки тому +13

      Unfortunately you must fight fire with fire in some circumstances, when you face a war machine that wont quit and wants to drag the world down with it, you must take steps no matter how hard in order to win and stop evil from prevailing.

    • @andresvalverde5182
      @andresvalverde5182 2 роки тому

      @@TheDeepState2001 Nope doesn't work against a dictatorship with its members deep down under inside bunkers. This was very unneccesary bloodshed. You also try to make it look like 1945 Germany wasn't already down on its knees.

  • @tharealverminsupreme135
    @tharealverminsupreme135 2 роки тому +24

    Arthur ‘Straight Trollin’ ‘Em’ Harris

    • @pevlez
      @pevlez 2 роки тому +3

      Arthur "bankrupting fire insurances since 1945" Harris

    • @mrmackey8776
      @mrmackey8776 Рік тому +5

      Arthur “my grandkids are brown” Harris

    • @windbuster
      @windbuster 7 місяців тому +1

      @@mrmackey8776Arthur “Fascist cope and seethe” Harris

    • @mrmackey8776
      @mrmackey8776 7 місяців тому +6

      @@windbuster Arthur “my country is now Pakistan 2.0” Harris

    • @windbuster
      @windbuster 7 місяців тому

      @@mrmackey8776 Arthur “Gercucks mad since 1945” Harris

  • @thunderstorm8926
    @thunderstorm8926 2 роки тому +17

    Dresden was a sanctuary city for refugees from the war across Central Europe and Eastern Europe and Germany . Rare to see the film of a genocide . Disturbing.

    • @OleLeik
      @OleLeik 2 роки тому +9

      Sanctuary? The city had just not got bombed yet, and it's luck eventually ran out. When it did It was not a genocide, not even a massacre or a warcrime - it was WW2 style city bombing as usual.

    • @ralphbernhard1757
      @ralphbernhard1757 2 роки тому

      I notice less and less Russians in the comments complimenting their "best friends" for acts like Dresden...
      *I wonder why?*
      Maybe because they realize these same hypocritical friends complimenting them today, would glady nuke them tomorrow accompanied by disgusting slurs and jeers...

    • @patriciabrenner9216
      @patriciabrenner9216 2 роки тому

      Sanctuary for criminals you mean.

    • @unchatmagnifique
      @unchatmagnifique 2 роки тому +1

      Genocide? I don't recall watching a film of concentration camps.

    • @doctor.dickface
      @doctor.dickface Рік тому

      @@patriciabrenner9216 Once again, Patricia deciding who deserves what.

  • @danielwolfe4169
    @danielwolfe4169 6 місяців тому +32

    war crime

    • @ISRAELLIBRE
      @ISRAELLIBRE 6 місяців тому +7

      Eye for an eye

    • @Die-Sophie
      @Die-Sophie 5 місяців тому +4

      @@ISRAELLIBRE
      *_"Eye for an eye"_*
      This is not a solution either because in the end only blind people remain.

    • @MarkHarrison733
      @MarkHarrison733 5 місяців тому +1

      @@ISRAELLIBRE See why Lehi and the Irgun bombed the Allies during World War II.

    • @MrJohnmarston13
      @MrJohnmarston13 21 день тому

      shut up and play your minecraft lil boy this discussion aint for you

  • @REPENTturn2Christ
    @REPENTturn2Christ 2 роки тому +43

    I just saw photos of the aftermath, and OMG the burnt up families

    • @patriciabrenner9216
      @patriciabrenner9216 2 роки тому +6

      Not worse than the families murdered by Ziklon b in Aushwitz... Or by fire in the East. These Germans were all accomplices. So at least this lot paid.

    • @patriciabrenner9216
      @patriciabrenner9216 2 роки тому +5

      @Herr Sivula Oh an antisemite. So banal!

    • @sway9725
      @sway9725 2 роки тому +28

      @@patriciabrenner9216 every country involved in ww2 commited warcrimes, doesnt mean that its the civilians fault

    • @patriciabrenner9216
      @patriciabrenner9216 2 роки тому +9

      @@sway9725 Actually no. The criminals who committed war crimes were the German and their allies. All the rest was retribution. And not enough!

    • @patriciabrenner9216
      @patriciabrenner9216 2 роки тому +9

      @@mathiasvries false. It is now documented that the vast majority knew!

  • @destroyer1667
    @destroyer1667 Рік тому +22

    They wanted total war, and they got it. Some call it a "war crime", i call it pest extermination

    • @staticsnow22
      @staticsnow22 Рік тому +13

      They did not “want total war.” The Allies declared war on Germany, not the other way around.
      Germany offered several peace offerings to Britain in 1940 with pretty generous terms. The terms were that Germany leaves France and Belgium but keeps Alsace-Lorraine, and Britain gets to keep all of its colonies, but the Allies can’t intervene in the Eastern War.
      Britain refused every single peace offering. They even imprisoned one of the German diplomats for 40 years after the war until he killed himself.
      Now who were the warmongers?

    • @destroyer1667
      @destroyer1667 Рік тому +2

      @@staticsnow22 germany invaded poland, forcing britain and france to join the war due to their defense pact

    • @staticsnow22
      @staticsnow22 Рік тому +10

      @@destroyer1667 Yet they didn’t declare war on the USSR. 🤔
      Not to mention, Germany sent several peace offerings to Britain with quite generous terms: Britain gets to keep all its colonies but can’t intervene in the Eastern War, and Germany leaves France and Belgium but keeps Alsace-Lorraine like before WWI.
      But Britain refused every single one.
      And who were the warmongers?

    • @destroyer1667
      @destroyer1667 Рік тому

      @@staticsnow22 it would be unfeasible to wage a war against both, Germany and the USSR simultaneously so they went for the bigger threat, especially since invading Poland was germanys plan in the first place, the USSR just played along. Also, britain shouldn't accept peace offerings that leave its ally, poland, without their land. The only peace would be germany stopping all war they are waging and leaving all territory they are occupying. And they had to be bombed to oblivion to do that

    • @staticsnow22
      @staticsnow22 Рік тому +9

      @@destroyer1667 Right. So an extremely complicated situation in Eastern Europe, where West Prussia, full of ethnic Germans, was given to a new Polish nation so it could have access to the sea. In addition, German citizens of Poland were being severely mistreated and sometimes had their villages raided and massacred by Poles, but that never makes it into the history books.
      Either way, some arbitrary borders drawn up by Britain and France in the 1910s was worth sacrificing tens of millions of lives and countless historical structures over? Absolutely not

  • @zoranmrdjenovic8127
    @zoranmrdjenovic8127 6 місяців тому +2

    Potpuno opravdano i zasluženo✅

  • @admontblanc
    @admontblanc 10 місяців тому +15

    Most moral coalition of the world...

    • @sergeantswiss2401
      @sergeantswiss2401 3 місяці тому

      The other coalition was pretty immoral so yeah

  • @paulgrove1407
    @paulgrove1407 2 роки тому +132

    You need to read Slaughterhouse Five to get an idea of the horrors that occurred that night in Dresden. It was an industrial War Crime that mirrors a nuclear strike.

    • @mrbreeze40
      @mrbreeze40 2 роки тому +81

      Nope. It's called TOTAL WAR. It's what they asked for.

    • @kayvan671
      @kayvan671 2 роки тому +28

      So what?
      I live near Dresden and eveyone has moved on.
      We know why all of this happend.

    • @kayvan671
      @kayvan671 2 роки тому +27

      @@mrbreeze40
      We didn't ask for it.
      But we still started it.
      So nobody should complain nowadays!

    • @mrbreeze40
      @mrbreeze40 2 роки тому +7

      Goebbels speech declaring total war and mustering the Volkssturm extended the war. Even when defeat was inevitable in Berlin they still fought on and killed nearly 100,000 Soviet soldiers before capitulation.

    • @kayvan671
      @kayvan671 2 роки тому +18

      @@mrbreeze40
      Was it worth is?
      No.

  • @avus-kw2f213
    @avus-kw2f213 Рік тому +37

    It’s not a war crime if you win 😎

    • @OleLeik
      @OleLeik Рік тому

      Goering & Co did their fair share of such things when they could pull it off. No war crime charges against them thereof.
      It's not a war crime if it do not violate one or more relevant laws of war.
      All German and British city's found worth the effort and cost to bomb was valid military targets during WW2

    • @GabrielAugustomisterkakuna
      @GabrielAugustomisterkakuna Рік тому +7

      It wasn't a war crime tho

    • @sefyude6967
      @sefyude6967 Рік тому

      It‘s not a war crime to bomb a whole big City with thousands of civilized that lost their homes and Lifes in one single night? 25.000 people died on that bombs and this is not a war crime?

    • @OleLeik
      @OleLeik Рік тому

      @@sefyude6967
      It was done in the 1940's, so it was not a war crime. Back then such things were not only legal acts of war, but war business as usual by anyone with an air force that could pull it off. Basically, any defended city that had military use and value was fair game to bomb.
      Area bombing of cities was outlawed as late as the 1980,s, well after carpet bombing by large formations of planes went out of military fashion. It's still legal to nuke a city and its citizens to oblivion though, if it comes too that

    • @avus-kw2f213
      @avus-kw2f213 Рік тому +21

      @@GabrielAugustomisterkakuna that’s because they won

  • @borisc
    @borisc Рік тому +27

    Pure terror.

    • @patriciabrenner9216
      @patriciabrenner9216 Рік тому +8

      Terror for terrorists...

    • @arialbati4011
      @arialbati4011 Рік тому

      Vous avez raison
      Une Terreur non légitime
      Détruire une ville Hôpital sans industrie en 1945 avec des réfugiés
      Aucun objectif militaire juste la terreur
      Cela n'excuse pas les crimes nazis

  • @madclone84
    @madclone84 2 роки тому +23

    The world was forever changed. The horrors of modern war.

    • @GandalftheWise
      @GandalftheWise 2 роки тому

      Are you pro-nazi bro?

    • @garydixon6315
      @garydixon6315 2 роки тому +1

      Next one will be of serious magnitude.. It will make World War 1 and 2 look like skirmishes ..🤔🙄

    • @Attmay
      @Attmay 2 роки тому +1

      @@garydixon6315 And Russia is still going to win.

    • @jackofalltrades9839
      @jackofalltrades9839 2 роки тому

      @@Attmay Russian tanks are overwhelmed with the sheer force of Ukrainian tractors. 😁 🟡🔵

    • @skormm-v7z
      @skormm-v7z Рік тому +1

      @@jackofalltrades9839 It's the ''Allies'' helping!

  • @Bongz90
    @Bongz90 25 днів тому +1

    I would not want to be down there

  • @hdufort
    @hdufort 9 місяців тому +11

    This is unbearable to watch.

  • @HectorRosado-gr3fv
    @HectorRosado-gr3fv 4 місяці тому +3

    Sh*t i wouldnt want to be down there but this is why rules of engagement has change.

    • @DarksideDave42
      @DarksideDave42 4 місяці тому

      Good point ....
      We learn from the past and strive to do better in the future ....
      One more reason for the accurate and nuanced teaching of history ...

  • @julianton3340
    @julianton3340 2 роки тому +10

    Simply a war crime commentated in a propaganda clip.
    „Truth is the first thing that dies in a war.“

    • @itssofunny8611
      @itssofunny8611 2 роки тому

      The truth died when the second human on earth was born

  • @camorarr142
    @camorarr142 Рік тому +16

    This was a war crime

    • @patriciabrenner9216
      @patriciabrenner9216 Рік тому +3

      No, it was proper retribution.

    • @Napolean45
      @Napolean45 Рік тому +2

      @@patriciabrenner9216 germans reaped what they sow. They forced this on themselves. I hope they learned once for all.

    • @No.WC.Penaldo
      @No.WC.Penaldo Рік тому

      @@Napolean45not the civilians who were being mind controlled by nazi propaganda, most had no clue how cruel the nazi regime was. this was a poor payback, but it is war afterall.

    • @Kingedwardiii2003
      @Kingedwardiii2003 Рік тому

      This is based. Fire and blood came to Germany

    • @mikeg905
      @mikeg905 Рік тому

      Nah its a reminder of what could happen if we were as evil as our enemies.

  • @hanikrm3448
    @hanikrm3448 Рік тому +11

    That is break the heart , many civilians died

    • @patriciabrenner9216
      @patriciabrenner9216 Рік тому

      Very few compared to the number murdered by the Germans.

    • @MarkHarrison733
      @MarkHarrison733 Рік тому +1

      @@patriciabrenner9216 The Germans did not kill any civilians at all.

  • @Mdebacle
    @Mdebacle 11 місяців тому +8

    Kurt Vonnegut was a POW working in Dresden. “On about February 14th the Americans came over, followed by the R.A.F. their combined labors killed 250,000 people in 24 hours and destroyed all of Dresden-possibly the world’s most beautiful city. But not me.”

    • @mr.gigagod9736
      @mr.gigagod9736 10 місяців тому +1

      Kurt Vonnegut was a Nazi propgandist. The actually deaths were less than 30,000.

    • @Die-Sophie
      @Die-Sophie 8 місяців тому +3

      25,000 - maybe 30,000

  • @WritewheelUK
    @WritewheelUK Рік тому +25

    My father was in the Royal Artillery during the war, based on the Thames estuary for the early part of London bombing. He saw flames coming up from the area he and his family lived. He was in London, at a command post, during a raid. He helped with casualties after the raid. He was against carpet bombing and especially incendiary bombing. After the war, he read up on the bombing of Hamburg, Berlin and Dresden. He was appalled. He knew what bombing did to children, women and men. When stationed at a bomber base in East Anglia he spoke with the ground crew, and was told the pilots called what they were doing, APC bombing, i.e. aiming point cathedral. They seemed ashamed of what they were doing. We can appreciate the bravery and self-sacrifice of the airplane crews, especially given the casualty rate, which they were well aware of, but at the same time not rejoice in those they incinerated. Read Lowe's book on the Hamburg bombing, Inferno. Well named.

    • @JohnMcDonald-ef5gz
      @JohnMcDonald-ef5gz 11 місяців тому

      How ignorant can a man be? Your father watched as the Luftwaffe burned out Coventry and London and was appalled at Dresden. Your father was a moral idiot.

    • @BGBG617
      @BGBG617 10 місяців тому +1

      There's a description of the March 1945 bombing of Tokyo in the book Flyboys that caused me to have nightmares a few days after reading it. Really horrible.

    • @jpip1382
      @jpip1382 9 місяців тому

      There’s a reason there was no Bomber Command medal after WW2

    • @Bigfishfun333
      @Bigfishfun333 9 місяців тому

      Hitler hoped/tried to make SLAVES out of all humanity that was not a proper Aryan. He had to be stopped - humanity depended upon it.

    • @patriciamurphy2085
      @patriciamurphy2085 8 місяців тому +1

      Well we see now what the Allies actually were, and still are; Gaza says it all!!!

  • @28pbtkh23
    @28pbtkh23 2 роки тому +79

    Despite what we may think of this today, the fact is that most people at the time thought that the Germans were getting their comeuppance for the Blitz on the East End, and the heavy bombing of other British cities: from Exeter to Glasgow, Belfast to Liverpool - they all got hit. To this we can add Rotterdam, Antwerp, Warsaw, French towns by the score, and Russian villages by the hundreds. Apart from a few hand-wringing Bishops, most people thought: "Well, they started it, and this is how we end it."
    Edit: I should add that no one in my family at least, or amongst school friends, took any pleasure in seeing the after-effects of the bombing campaign when many of us finally saw it for the first time on the "World at War" TV series in 1973. The film footage was grisly, but it was also shocking to hear from the survivors of these raids.

    • @ds1868
      @ds1868 2 роки тому +33

      As the old saying goes, two wrongs don't make a right. Also from a purely artistic and historic perspective, Dresden was without doubt the finest neoclassical city ever built, the accomplishment of the Electors of Saxony. The beauty of the city was far beyond anything comparable in England. Bombing it was a disgrace and Churchill knew it.

    • @shantyclips6358
      @shantyclips6358 2 роки тому +31

      Killing civilians and especially cultural heritage in a pure act of vengeance is wrong, no matter who does it.

    • @28pbtkh23
      @28pbtkh23 2 роки тому +22

      @@shantyclips6358 - there were plenty of military targets in Dresden.

    • @shantyclips6358
      @shantyclips6358 2 роки тому +8

      @@28pbtkh23
      IT WAS IN FEBRUARY 1945!!!

    • @28pbtkh23
      @28pbtkh23 2 роки тому +30

      @@shantyclips6358 - correct, but the Allies were still losing troops at the rate of 10,000 per month. The Russians were probably losing more than that. Stalin had asked Britain and America if we could bomb Dresden as the city was being used as a transport hub to ferry troops to the Eastern front. So we helped him out. Dresden was not a revenge raid: it had a purpose. There were also over 120 factories in Dresden that contributed to the war effort. So the reasoning was this: every effort must be made to destroy Germany's war-making capability. It's easy to say in hindsight that they were wrong.

  • @lochinfor
    @lochinfor 10 місяців тому +9

    نفس الابادة تتكرر في غزة من طرف الاحتلال .محزن ومخزي للبشرية

    • @omwando1
      @omwando1 9 місяців тому +1

      How is Dresden a genocide Dresden was a legitimate target. For one it was home to a railway center that sent supplies to the eastern front or were the Soviets were fighting the German’s. Two Dresden also had factories and arms production there. If you wanna use this as an example of what’s going on in Palestine you should research it even the Soviets supported it.

    • @javaprogrammer23401
      @javaprogrammer23401 Місяць тому

      ​@@omwando1why kill civilians during ut there were better ways to handle this matter

  • @Han-wh5ie
    @Han-wh5ie Рік тому +9

    Een oorlogsmisdaad, deze keer van geallieerde zijde.....

  • @albertopalazzi2862
    @albertopalazzi2862 2 роки тому +20

    Crime.

  • @YouTubemessedupmyhandle
    @YouTubemessedupmyhandle 5 місяців тому +2

    The WW1 zeppelin raids on the UK were the first bombing campaign targeting civilians. This was carried on into WW2 by the Nazis via Spain, while they committed numerous war crimes with the support of their people and army including systematically murdering whole populations. The air campaign was one of the few ways the west could hit back and its technology was limited. The regret of Dresden was that it wasn’t needed and sullies the reputation of the forces that carried it out.

    • @snorttroll4379
      @snorttroll4379 Місяць тому

      who were the nazis exterminating before the fire bombings?

  • @adhn
    @adhn Рік тому +9

    It is unbelievable how those terrorists are calling arabs "bombers"

    • @patriciabrenner9216
      @patriciabrenner9216 Рік тому

      Who would be the terrorists? The Nazis and their allies like Haj Amin al Husseini?

    • @aurelianxcbd7799
      @aurelianxcbd7799 Рік тому

      So he had no fans in America?@@patriciabrenner9216

    • @patriciabrenner9216
      @patriciabrenner9216 Рік тому

      @@aurelianxcbd7799 There were pro Nazis in America in the 30s. But no allies of Haj Amin al Husseini specifically.

  • @velvetclaw2316
    @velvetclaw2316 2 роки тому +23

    ‘ magnificent bombing shots ‘ how sick and deranged

  • @vivienmarieamrhein5297
    @vivienmarieamrhein5297 2 роки тому +12

    A whole city in flames…………

  • @subnotic5508
    @subnotic5508 2 роки тому +33

    more then 200,000+ dead.

    • @kayvan671
      @kayvan671 2 роки тому +14

      Not in Dresden.
      "Only" 40k.
      And all of Germany 500k.

    • @patriciabrenner9216
      @patriciabrenner9216 2 роки тому +5

      @@FriedTurkey Well exactly what they did in Auschwitz.

    • @kayvan671
      @kayvan671 2 роки тому +7

      @@FriedTurkey
      Records have shown otherwise.
      Dude, i live near Dresden.
      We know the real numbers.
      And i already wrote them.

    • @yourmotherisshameful
      @yourmotherisshameful 2 роки тому +7

      Based, more should have died.

    • @kayvan671
      @kayvan671 2 роки тому +16

      @@yourmotherisshameful
      Calm tf down

  • @dod4004
    @dod4004 Рік тому +27

    I used to defend the carpet bombing of German cities as entirely justified. As I've aged, I'm now entirely convinced it was a war crime. Deliberately targeting civilians is either wrong for everyone or it's wrong for no-one.

    • @dod4004
      @dod4004 Рік тому +3

      That said, I don't blame the airmen one bit. I'd like to think I'd have even half their courage and would do exactly the same as they did if I were in their shoes.

    • @XXXTENTAClON227
      @XXXTENTAClON227 Рік тому +22

      This was not just a random attack, this was specifically to relieve the USSR of the reinforcements that Germany were providing from Dresden, it was purely strategic and prevented so many Russian deaths. A country that bombs London cannot claim to be a victim when their military targets get firebombed. Next time, don’t have your families next to your military workplace, or preferably, just surrender.

    • @dod4004
      @dod4004 Рік тому

      @@XXXTENTAClON227 I don't think "well the Nazis did it too" is much of a defence against anything. As a rule, you should try to do the opposite of any evils the Nazis did. And "civilians got in the way of our bombs" is also pretty weak. If you follow this logic, why didn't we carpet bomb Baghdad or Kabul like we bombed Berlin and Hamburg? And why only burn and explode them? Why not poison the water supply? It'd kill just as many workers and probably save the lives of many of our bomber crews. It's psychopathic.

    • @dod4004
      @dod4004 Рік тому

      @@XXXTENTAClON227 I've got a better one. Why not demoralise the enemy by targeting their schools? Depressed munitions workers are unproductive workers.

    • @patriciabrenner9216
      @patriciabrenner9216 Рік тому +9

      It was perfectly justified.

  • @deeks1205
    @deeks1205 7 місяців тому +10

    The war was nearly at an end, the allies knew that dresden had no stratigic value, the narrator in the video lied when he says dresden was being used to pump German troops into counter attacks against Russia, there was no German troops, the allies knew this. And they knew the city was jam packed with hundreds of thousands of refuges, the bombing of dresden was one of the greatest war crimes of the war and the deliberate vengeful mass murder of German civilians,, for which no one was made to answer for, the man who ordered the bombing was air marshal Tedder and he should have been tried as a war criminal.

    • @JustinHH22
      @JustinHH22 7 місяців тому +2

      Source?

    • @JustinHH22
      @JustinHH22 7 місяців тому +3

      Do you genuinely believe that Dresden was one of the greatest war crimes? By that logic every bombing raid carried out by both Axis and Allied forces could be considered a war crime

    • @ДенисГармаев-х5у
      @ДенисГармаев-х5у 6 місяців тому

      ​@@JustinHH22это военное преступление, идиот

    • @ripvanwinkle1819
      @ripvanwinkle1819 6 місяців тому +1

      Churchill was a deeply racist masonic Zionist scumbag.

    • @ISRAELLIBRE
      @ISRAELLIBRE 6 місяців тому

      Eye for an eye