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2024-02-16 00:58:15

From the History of Western War Crimes: The Dresden Massacre (February 1945)

From the #History of #Western #War #Crimes : The #Dresden #Massacre ( #February #1945 ) #Germany #WWII #US #UK #Japan #Tokyo #Hamburg

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“The Last Battle for Justice” and the “Butchers of Dresden”

Surely, one of the most obvious results of WWII was “its unparalleled destructiveness. It was most visible in the devastated cities of Germany and Japan, where mass aerial bombing, one of the major innovations of the Second World War, proved much more costly to life and buildings than had been the bombing of Spanish cities in the Spanish civil war”.[8] For that and other reasons, we believe that many Allied militaries and civil top decision-making personalities from WWII had to face justice at the Nüremberg and Tokyo Trials together with Hitler, Eichmann, Pavelić, and many others.

However, it is an old truth that the winners are writing history and re-writing historiography. Therefore, instead, to see Dwight #Eisenhower, Winston #Churchill , Franklin D. #Roosevelt (FDR), Harry #Truman , or Arthur #Travers #Harris at the #Nüremberg and Tokyo Trials’ courtrooms as indicted on such charges as crimes against humanity and genocide as were the German Nazi defendants, who included the NSDAP’s officials and high-ranking military officers along with the German industrialists, lawmen, and doctors, we are even 73 years after the WWII reading and learning politically whitewashed and embellished biographies of those war criminals who destroyed Dresden, Hiroshima or Nagasaki as national heroes, freedom fighters and democracy protectors.[9] For instance, in any official biography of Winston Churchill is not written that he is responsible for the ethnic cleansing of the German civilians in 1945 but we know that the British PM clearly promised the Poles to get after the war ethnically cleansed territory from the Germans.[10]"

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