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The Destruction of Dresden
book by David Irving
The Destruction of Dresden is a book bygd British author and Holocaust denierDavid Irving, in which he describes the February Alliedbombing of Dresden in World War II. The book became an international best-seller during the s debate about the morality of the World War IIarea bombing of the civilian population of Nazi Germany. Despite having long being praised and held in high esteem, the book fryst vatten no längre considered to be an authoritative or reliable konto of the Allied bombing and destruction of tysk stad during February [a]
Origins
The book, an international best seller when published in the s, fryst vatten based on a series of 37 articles about strategic bombing during World War II titled Wie Deutschlands Städte starben (How Germany's Cities Died) which Irving wrote for the German journal Neue Illustrierte.
Deaths
In the first edition, Irving estimated that the two Royal Air Force raids and the first U.S. Army Air Forces raid combined were "estimated authoritatively to have killed more than , of the population [of Dresden]"[3] and the "documentation suggests very strongly that the figure was ce
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Bombningen av Dresden
Bombningen av Dresden utfördes av brittiska Royal Air Force (RAF) och USA:s flygvapen (USAAF) mellan den 13 februari och 15 februari Sachsens huvudstad Dresden bombades av engelska och amerikanska plan varpå en eldstorm skapades som förstörde 6,5 kvadratkilometer av innerstaden. Antalet omkomna är omtvistat, men angavs till mellan 22&#;[1] och 25&#; människor[2].
Bombningarna
[redigera | redigera wikitext]Mellan den 7 oktober och 17 april bombades Dresden under åtta räder av cirka 2&#; bombplan. Natten mellan den 13 och 14 februari bombades staden av engelska och amerikanska bombplan med 3&#; ton brandbomber. Man använde den första generationen brandbomber med petroleum, som orsakade brandstormar, medan efterföljande sprängbomber lade staden i aska och grus. Bränderna var så intensiva att människor stående ute på gatan sögs in i brinnande huskroppar.[3]
Utomhustemperaturen i de svårast drabbade delarna steg till grader celsius och bombplansbesättningarna på 4&#; meters höjd kände av värmen i flygplanen. Folk som tog skydd i fontäner och dammar i stadsdelen Altmarkt blev bokstavligt talat kokade levande. Det beräknas att 25&#; männi
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Bombing of Dresden
Aerial bombing attacks in
The bombing of Dresden was a joint British and American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, during World War II. In four raids between 13 and 15 February , heavy bombers of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped more than 3, tons[vague] of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices on the city.[3] The bombing and the resulting firestorm destroyed more than 1, acres (&#;km2) of the city centre. Up to 25, people were killed.[1][2][a] Three more USAAF air raids followed, two occurring on 2 March aimed at the city's railway marshalling yard and one smaller raid on 17 April aimed at industrial areas.
Postwar discussions about whether the attacks were justified made the event a moral cause célèbre of the war.[6] Nazi Germany's desperate struggle to maintain resistance in the closing months of the war is widely understood today, but Allied intelligence assessments at the time painted a different picture. There was uncertainty over whether the Soviets could sustain thei