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| Destruction of Dresden |
By Jonas E. Alexis on February 16, 2017
…by Jonas E. Alexis and Michael Hoffman
Michael A. Hoffman is an independent scholar based in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. He is a former reporter for the New York bureau of the Associated Press. He was educated at the State University of New York at Oswego and Hobart College. He is the author of numerous books, including Judaism Discovered, Judaism’s Strange Gods, and The Great Holocaust Trial.
[ Editor’s Note:
I first ran across Michael Hoffman during the early days of the
American Heritage movement that was organizing to push back against
political correctness with flank attacks against some of the historical
constructs that fueled strategy of pitting one group of Americans
against another, the upteenth version of the divide and conquer game.
Hoffman is famous from those days for his short but information packed “They were white and they were slaves”,
a well researched and sourced book that revealed one of America’s
darkest secrets, the history of white slavery in the early colonial
days, when the term slave and servant were synonyms.
I actually broke into TV media by doing
two back to back shows in Nashville, one of them on Hoffman’s book. I
was later told that show had drawn more viewer response than anything
ever aired on the station before. I immediately decided to get into
public tv in Atlanta, and never looked back.
The book is still available on Amazon, with many reviews to check out. I highly recommend this one folks… Jim W. Dean ]
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Jonas E. Alexis: Virtually every serious historian now knows that the bombing of Dresden in February 1945 was a war crime.[1] The late historian John Keegan called it “the most savage of all acts of the strategic bombing campaign of the Second World War.”[2]
Even the British Telegraph has said that “Dresden was a civilian town with no military significance.”[3] The Telegraph didn’t hesitate to say that:
“British (and some American) heavy bombers dropped 2,400 tons of high explosives and 1,500 tons of incendiary bombs onto the ancient cathedral city of Dresden. In just a few hours, around 25,000 to 35,000 civilians were blown up or incinerated.”[4]
“Children,” the Telegraph continued, “under the age of three had simply been vaporised.”[5] “Operation Gomorrah” did a lot worse the previous year, where bombing civilians is estimated to be 900,000 in just 18 months. Millions of others were seriously injured “six million homes” were destroyed. The bombing also “de-housed” 25 million, “creating a humanitarian crisis.”[6]
It got worse. The Commander-in-Chief of Bomber Command “said he had been intentionally bombing civilians for a year.”[7] Bombing civilians, the Powers That Be told us, “was a vital part of the war. Churchill wrote that he wanted ‘absolutely devastating, exterminating attacks by very heavy bombers from this country upon the Nazi homeland.’”[8]
The bombing of Dresden, the Telegraph again says, was “hell.” It states:
