Author: Sayyed Muslih-al-Din
Analysis of the Destructive Aspects of Christianity (The Sixth and Final Part)
The Dresden Massacre
The bombing of the city of Dresden by Allied forces in February 1945 is one of the most controversial military actions of World War II. At that time, Hitler’s military power had significantly diminished, and only a few months remained until the war’s end. Despite this, the historic city was heavily bombarded.
On March 28, 1945, Winston Churchill ordered a reduction in air raids over German cities and a shift in focus to military and industrial centers. This decision came after widespread criticism of the extensive bombing campaigns in German cities like Dresden; the criticism was not only due to civilian casualties but also because of the widespread destruction of cultural heritage.
During the attack on Dresden, which took place from February 13 to 15, 1945, more than 1,200 British and American bombers dropped around 3,900 tons of explosive and incendiary bombs, including barrel bombs and phosphorus bombs, on the city. These attacks led to a firestorm that destroyed about 39 square kilometers of the city’s center, and it is estimated that between 22,000 and 25,000 people were killed.
The German newspaper Die Welt described the disaster as follows: “In Dresden, in just one night, hundreds of thousands were wiped out, and countless cultural treasures were destroyed. Pregnant women jumped out of hospital windows to avoid burning in the fire. But within minutes, they and their unborn children were reduced to ashes. Thousands of people, turned into living torches by incendiary bombs, ran toward water pools, but phosphorus continued to burn them even in the water.”
The forces opposing Hitler, attempting to dismantle the German people, did not stop with the Dresden incident. The day after the bombing, Churchill ordered that all survivors along the banks of the Elbe River be shot.
Forty-five years after Dresden’s destruction, David Irving gave a speech at the Dresden Cultural Palace. In his speech, Irving quoted Churchill’s infamous words: “I do not want suggestions about how to destroy military targets around Dresden. I want suggestions on how to roast 600,000 refugees who have fled from Breslau to Dresden.”
Estimates of casualties from the Dresden bombing range from 20,000 to 500,000. The bombings destroyed at least 12,000 homes, and thousands of people who were in shelters were also killed.
A key point was that many victims did not die from bomb shrapnel but from suffocation. So many bombs were dropped on Dresden that they consumed the city’s oxygen, and in the few minutes it took for the wind to bring in fresh oxygen, everyone suffocated. The air raids on Dresden were carried out by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF).
Adding to the crimes of Britain, one must also consider the horrific Bengal famine of 1943, the exacerbation of the Irish famine in 1879, the partition of India in 1947, the suppression of the Iraqi revolution in 1920, the massacre at Amritsar in India in 1919, and the creation of torture chambers in Aden, Yemen, during the years 1963 to 1966.
It is interesting to note that the United States alone spent over 5 trillion dollars on war expenses between 2001 and 2016.
There has been much discussion of the crimes and disgrace of the U.S. throughout history. For example, the bombing of Laos (2 million tons of bombs) between 1965 and 1973, the enslavement of 15 million Africans between 1500 and 1800, the assassinations of Muslim leaders in the U.S. (Malcolm X in 1965 and Malcolm Shabazz in 2013), the use of 400 African Americans as lab rats in 1972, the trafficking of 300,000 children, its refusal to join the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the creation of 100 secret and horrific prisons worldwide, the serial killings in Chile (Salvador Allende and Victor Jara in 1973), the deaths of half a million children between 1991 and 1996 in Iraq due to U.S. food and medicine sanctions, the imposition of the most brutal and inhumane tortures in prisons (especially in Guantanamo Bay), and many other atrocities.
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