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February 12, 2001
http://netjunk.com/users/library/dresden.htm
The night of February 13th,
and February 14th, Valentine's Day, mark an ominous anniversary in the history
of Western Civilization. For beginning on the night of February 13th, 1945,
occurred the destruction of Dresden.
On the eve of Valentine's
Day, 1945, World War II in Europe was nearly over. For all practical purposes
Germany was already defeated. Italy, and Germany's other European allies, had
fallen by the wayside. The Red Army was rushing to occupy vast areas of what
had been Germany in the East, while the allies of the Soviets, the British and
Americans, were bombing what was left of Germany's defenses and food and
transportation infrastructure into nonexistence. And what was Dresden? Most of
you have probably heard of Dresden China, and that delicately executed and
meticulously detailed porcelain is really a perfect symbol for that city. For
centuries Dresden had been a center of art and culture, and refined leisure and
recreation. She was a city of art museums and theatres, circuses and sports
stadia, a town of ancient half-timbered buildings looking for all the world
like those of medieval England, with venerable churches and centuries-old
cathedrals gracing her skyline. She was a city of artists and craftsmen, of
actors and dancers, of tourists and the merchants and hotels that served them.
Above all, what Dresden was, was defined during the war by what she was not.
She had no significant military or industrial installations. Because of this,
Dresden had become, above all other things that she was, a city of children, of
women, of refugees, and of the injured and maimed who were recovering from
their wounds in her many hospitals.
These women and children,
these wounded soldiers, these infirm and elderly people, these refugees fleeing
from the brutal onslaught of the Communist armies to the East, had come to
Dresden because it was commonly believed at the time that Dresden would not be
attacked. Its lack of strategic or military or industrial significance, and the
well-known presence of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilian refugees and
even Allied prisoners of war, seemed to guarantee safety to the city. Surely,
it was thought, not even a the most powerful and determined enemy would be so
depraved and sadistic, and so wasteful of that enemy's own resources, to attack
such a city. But the people of Dresden, who were happily attending the cinema
or eating dinner at home or watching the show-horses in the circus on that
fateful night were wrong, wrong, wrong. And their leaders were also wrong, for
the city was virtually open and undefended and only minimal civil defense
preparations had been made.
Dresden's population had
almost doubled in the months before the attack, mainly as a result of the
influx of refugees from the Eastern Front, most of them women and young
children. According to British historian David Irving, the briefings given to
the British bomber squadrons before the attack on Dresden were curiously
different. In one, the soldiers were told that their target was the railway
center of Dresden. In another, they were told that the target was a poison-gas
factory. In yet another, they were told that the target was a
marshalling-grounds for troops in the city. Another was told that the target
was a major arsenal. These were all lies.
The only marshalling-grounds
for what few troops were in the area were located well outside the city. The
arsenal had burned down in 1916. There were factories for toothpaste and
baby-powder in Dresden, but none for poison gas. There were, in fact, no fewer than
eighteen railway stations in Dresden, but only one was hit by the bombing, and
that was barely touched and in fact was operating again just three days later. According to copious
documentation unearthed by David Irving from the archives of the American and
British governments, the point of the attack was in fact to inflict the maximum
loss of life on the civilian population and particularly to kill as many
refugees as possible who were fleeing from the Red Army. In achieving these
goals it was highly successful. It was thus planned and executed by those at
the very highest levels of the British and American governments, who to attain
their purposes even lied to their own soldiers and citizens, who to this day
have never been told the full story by their leaders. How was this devastating
effect accomplished?
At 10:10 PM on February 13th,
the first wave of the attack, consisting of the British Number 5 Bomber Group,
began. The attacking force consisted of about 2,000 bombers with additional
support craft, which dropped over 3,000 high explosive and 650,000 incendiary
bombs (more commonly known as firebombs) on the center of the city. Incendiary
bombs are not known for their efficiency per pound in destroying heavy
equipment such as military hardware or railroad tracks, but are extremely
effective in producing maximum loss of human life. The loads carried by the
bombers were over 75 per cent incendiaries. In fact, the goal of the first wave
of the attack was, according to British air commander Sir Arthur Bomber Harris,
to set the city well on fire. That he did.
The
lack of any effective anti-aircraft defenses allowed the bombers to drop to
very low altitudes and thus a relatively high degree of precision and visual
identification of targets was achieved. Despite the fact that they could
clearly see that the marked target area contained hospitals and sports stadia
and residential areas of center city Dresden, the bombers nevertheless obeyed
orders and rained down a fiery death upon the unlucky inhabitants of that city
on a scale which had never before been seen on planet Earth. Hundreds of
thousands of innocents were literally consumed by fire, an actual holocaust by
the true definition of the word: complete consumption by fire.
The incendiaries started
thousands of fires and, aided by a stiff wind and the early-on destruction of
the telephone exchanges that might have summoned firefighters from nearby
towns, these fires soon coalesced into one unimaginably huge firestorm. Now
such firestorms are not natural phenomena, and are seldom created by man, so
few people have any idea of their nature. Basically, what happened was this:
The intense heat caused by the huge column of smoke and flame, miles high and
thousands of acres in area, created a terrific updraft of air in the center of
the column. This created a very low pressure at the base of the column, and
surrounding fresh air rushed inward at speeds estimated to be thirty times that
of an ordinary tornado. An ordinary tornado wind-force is a result of
temperature differences of perhaps 20 to 30 degrees centigrade. In this
firestorm the temperature differences were on the order of 600 to 1,000 degrees
centigrade. This inward-rushing air further fed the flames, creating a literal
tornado of fire, with winds in the surrounding area of many hundreds of miles
per hour--sweeping men, women, children, animals, vehicles and uprooted trees
pell-mell into the glowing inferno.
But this was only the first
stage of the plan.
Exactly on schedule, three
hours after the first attack, a second massive armada of British bombers
arrived, again loaded with high explosive and massive quantities of incendiary
bombs. The residents of Dresden, their power systems destroyed by the first
raid, had no warning of the second. Again the British bombers attacked the center
city of Dresden, this time dividing their targets--one half of the bombs were
to be dropped into the center of the conflagration, to keep it going, the other
half around the edges of the firestorm. No pretense whatever was made of
selecting military targets. The timing of the second armada was such as to
ensure that a large quantity of the surviving civilians would have emerged from
their shelters by that time, which was the case, and also in hopes that rescue
and firefighting crews would have arrived from surrounding cities, which also
proved to be true. The firefighters and medics thus incinerated hadn't needed
the telephone exchange to know that they were needed--the firestorm was visible
from a distance of 200 miles.
It is reported that body
parts, pieces of clothing, tree branches, huge quantities of ashes, and
miscellaneous debris from the firestorm fell for days on the surrounding
countryside as far away as eighteen miles. After the attack finally subsided,
rescue workers found nothing but liquefied remains of the inhabitants of some
shelters, where even the metal kitchen utensils had melted from the intense
heat. The next day, Ash Wednesday
and Valentine's Day, 1945, medical and other emergency personnel from all over
central Germany had converged on Dresden. Little did they suspect that yet a
third wave of bombers was on its way, this time American. This attack had been
carefully coordinated with the previous raids. Four hundred fifty Flying
Fortresses and a support contingent of fighters arrived to finish the job at
noon. I quote from David Irving's The Destruction of Dresden: "Just a few hours before
Dresden had been a fairy-tale city of spires and cobbled streets .... now total
war had put an end to all that. ...The ferocity of the US raid of 14th February
had finally brought the people to their knees... but it was not the bombs which
finally demoralised the people ... it was the Mustang fighters, which suddenly
appeared low over the city, firing on everything that moved .... one section of
the Mustangs concentrated on the river banks, where masses of bombed-out people
had gathered. ... British prisoners who had been released from their burning
camps were among the first to suffer the discomfort of machine-gunning attacks
.... wherever columns of tramping people were marching in or out of the city
they were pounced on by the fighters, and machine-gunned or raked with cannon
fire." [Image: Dresden skyline after Allied saturation bombing.] Ladies and gentlemen, on this
program I can only give you a bare glimpse of the inhuman horror of the
holocaust of Dresden. In Dresden, no fewer than 135,000 innocent victims died,
with some estimates as high as 300,000. More died in Dresden than died in the
well-known attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. More destruction befell Dresden
in one day than was inflicted on the whole of Britain during the entire war.
And yet you haven't been told.
I urge every one of you to
read The Destruction of Dresden by David Irving. I assure you, after
reading Irving's book, you will never take seriously the Establishment's
version of what happened in that war again. What you ought to take
seriously, though, is the fact that the same clique that controlled the
traitorous Roosevelt and Churchill governments, whose hatred of our race and
civilization and whose alliance with Communism were the real causes of the
holocaust of Dresden, still controls our government and our media today. It is
they who are pushing for a disarmed, racially mixed America. It is they who
promote the teaching of sodomy to our young children. It is they who are
destroying our industrial infrastructure in the name of a global economy. It is
they who created the drug subculture and then also the police state agencies
which pretend to fight it. The hour is very late for America and indeed for all
of Western civilization. But if patriots will heed our call, then there is no
reason for despair. For the enemies of our nation may have power, but their
power is based on lies. Won't you help us cut through the chain of lies that
holds our people in mental slavery?
Every year, families should
commemorate the anniversary of the holocaust of Dresden on the eve of 13th
February.
Free Speech — March 1995. David Irving has
generously made his Destruction of Dresden available as a free download, in PDF format, at his
Focal Point Press website.
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