Dresden: The Real Holocaust

The nationally known magazine Esquire for November 1963, carried the best article so far to appear on the Allied air war on civilians, "Apocalypse at Dresden." R.H.S. Crossman, an Englishman, subtitled his essay: "The long suppressed story of the worst massacre in the history of the world." He writes: "The destruction of Dresden in February 1945, was one of those crimes against humanity whose authors would have been arraigned at Nuremburg if that Court had not been perverted..."

When, because the Red Army was approaching only 60 miles away, a million refugees, who were fleeing this advancing communist scourage, had swollen the population of Dresden, a totally non-military, art city and hospital center, to 1,250,000, British and American bombers loosed three waves of bomb attacks in twelve hours and followed up with Mustang divers to snipe off any fleeing survivors. Out of 28,410 houses in the inner city they left 24,866 destroyed, eleven square miles devastated, 35,000 recognizable corpses and an estimated 100,000 unrecognizable ones! By contrast, Hiroshima's atom casualties were 71,879!

On January 25, 1945, the order to wipe out Dresden was given, and the date designated for it was February 13th, when on Shrove Tuesday a maximum of children in carnival garb might be expected about. So, while "gangs of little girls (were) wandering about in fancy dress," the Allies for 24 minutes created a fire storm over the city, burning flesh off the victims, sucking oxygen out of air-raid shelters, and converting the inner city "into a sea of flames."

When some 10,000 wretched survivors had crowded into the Grosse Garden the second wave of bombers deliberately directed their terror on this garden, and on hospitals. "Of its nineteen hospitals, sixteen were badly damaged and three, including the main maternity clinic, totally destroyed." Heroic nurses managed to drag "thousands of crippled survivors...to the banks of the River Elbe, where they laid rows on the grass to await daylight."

But the Anglo-American "re-educators" of Germany had not sadism enough yet. 211 American Flying Fortresses blasted what was left of the city and parks so that for five days and nights the city burned. Yet even this third all-out massacre did not content the Churchill-Roosevelt-Morgenthau sadists. So that if possible, not one single woman or child might drag itself to safety, they sent in: "....scores of Mustang fighters diving low over the bodies huddled on the banks of the Elbe, as well as on the larger lawns of the 'Grosse Garden', in order to shoot them up. Other Mustangs chose as their targets the serried crowd that blocked every road out of Dresden. No one knows how many women and children were actually killed by those dive-bombing attacks, but they have become a symbol of Yankee sadism and brutality."

Editor's note: Because Dresden was a non-military city, and with the advancing communists, many people from all over Eastern Europe fled there, including Poles.

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