Dresden - A Real Holocaust
Sixty-four years ago, on the evening of February 13, 1945,
an orgy of genocide and barbarism began against a defenseless
German city, one of the greatest cultural centers of Northern
Europe. Within less than 14 hours, not only was it reduced to
flaming ruins, but an estimated one-third of its
inhabitants-possibly as many as half a million-had perished in
what was the worst massacre of all time. As Jewish propaganda again
reaches a crescendo in celebrating the Soviet "liberation" of the
famous Auschwitz internment center, it is fitting that we consider
what an actual holocaust is-one which is not a
Hollywood trademark, but rather one in which millions died in the
most horrific and excruciating manner: not only in the genocidal
rampages of America's Communist ally in Eastern Europe, but also in
the systematic, targeted mass murder of German
civilians in deliberately created Anglo-American fire
storms.
In such places as Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Kassel,
Würzburg, Darmstadt and Pforzheim, among many others-but especially
in DRESDEN, victims were roasted alive in an orgy of Allied sadism
and fiendishness without equal, which now stands as a symbol of
genocide and evil for all time. The following account, taken from
the Feb. 1985 issue of the NS Bulletin, tells us what a REAL
holocaust is like.
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Toward the end of World War II, as Allied planes rained death
and destruction over Germany, the old Saxon city of Dresden lay
like an island of tranquility amid desolation. Famous as a cultural
center and possessing no military value, Dresden had been spared
the terror that descended from the skies over the rest of the
country.
Dresden before the attack
In fact, little had been done to provide the ancient city of
artists and craftsmen with anti-aircraft defenses. One squadron of
planes had been stationed in Dresden for awhile, but the Luftwaffe
decided to move the aircraft to another area where they would be of
use. A gentlemen's agreement seemed to prevail, designating Dresden
as an "open city."
On Shrove Tuesday, February 13, 1945, a flood of refugees
fleeing the Red Army 60 miles away had swollen the city's
population to well over a million. Each new refugee brought fearful
accounts of Soviet atrocities. Little did those refugees retreating
from the Red terror imagine that they were about to die in a horror
worse than anything Stalin could devise.
Normally, a carnival atmosphere prevailed in Dresden on Shrove
Tuesday. In 1945, however, the outlook was rather dismal. Houses
everywhere overflowed with refugees, and thousands were forced to
camp out in the streets, shivering in the bitter cold.
THE PEOPLE FELT SAFE
However, the people felt relatively safe; and although the mood
was grim, the circus played to a full house that night as thousands
came to forget for a moment the horrors of war. Bands of little
girls paraded about in carnival dress in an effort to bolster
waning spirits. Half-sad smiles greeted the laughing girls, but
spirits were lifted.
No one realized that in less than 24 hours those same innocent
children would die screaming in Churchill's firestorms. But, of
course, no one could know that then. The Russians, to be sure, were
savages, but at least the Americans and British were
"honorable."
So when those first alarms signaled the start of 14 hours of
hell, Dresden's people streamed dutifully into their shelters. But
they did so without much enthusiasm, believing the alarms to be
false, since their city had never been threatened from the air.
Many would never come out alive, for that "great democratic
statesman," Winston Churchill-in collusion with that other "great
democratic statesman," Franklin Delano Roosevelt-had decided that
the city of Dresden was to be obliterated by saturation
bombing.
What were Churchill's motives? They appear to have been
political, rather than military. Historians unanimously agree that
Dresden had no military value. What industry it did have produced
only cigarettes and china.
But the Yalta Conference was coming up, in which the Soviets and
their Western allies would sit down like ghouls to carve up the
shattered corpse of Europe. Churchill wanted a trump card-a
devastating "thunderclap of Anglo-American annihilation"-with which
to "impress" Stalin.
That card, however, was never played at Yalta, because bad
weather delayed the originally scheduled raid. Yet Churchill
insisted that the raid be carried out-to "disrupt and confuse" the
German civilian population behind the lines.
Dresden's citizens barely had time to reach their shelters. The
first bomb fell at 10:09 p.m. The attack lasted 24 minutes, leaving
the inner city a raging sea of fire. "Precision saturation bombing"
had created the desired firestorm.
A firestorm is caused when hundreds of smaller fires join in one
vast conflagration. Huge masses of air are sucked in to feed the
inferno, causing an artificial tornado. Those persons unlucky
enough to be caught in the rush of wind are hurled down entire
streets into the flames. Those who seek refuge underground often
suffocate as oxygen is pulled from the air to feed the blaze, or
they perish in a blast of white heat-heat intense enough to melt
human flesh.
WOMEN AND CHILDREN TARGETED
One eyewitness who survived told of seeing "young women carrying
babies running up and down the streets, their dresses and hair on
fire, screaming until they fell down, or the collapsing buildings
fell on top of them."
Some victims
There was a three-hour pause between the first and second raids.
The lull had been calculated to lure civilians from their shelters
into the open again. To escape the flames, thousands of civilians
had crowded into the Grosser Garten, a magnificent park nearly one
and a half miles square.
The second raid came at 1:22 a.m. with no warning. Twice as many
bombers returned with a massive load of incendiary bombs. The
second wave was designed to spread the raging firestorm into the
Grosser Garten.
It was a complete "success." Within a few minutes a sheet of
flame ripped across the grass, uprooting trees and littering the
branches of others with everything from bicycles to human limbs.
For days afterward, they remained bizarrely strewn about as grim
reminders of Allied sadism.
At the start of the second air assault, many were still huddled
in tunnels and cellars, waiting for the fires of the first attack
to die down. At 1:30 a.m. an ominous rumble reached the ears of the
commander of a Labor Service convoy sent into the city on a rescue
mission. He described it this way: "The detonation shook the cellar
walls. The sound of the explosions mingled with a new, stranger
sound which seemed to come closer and closer, the sound of a
thundering waterfall; it was the sound of the mighty tornado
howling in the inner city."
MELTING HUMAN FLESH
Others hiding below ground died. But they died painlessly-they
simply glowed bright orange and blue in the darkness. As the heat
intensified, they either disintegrated into ciders or melted into a
thick liquid-often three or four feet deep in spots.
Shortly after 10:30 on the morning of February 14, the last raid
swept over the city. American bombers pounded the rubble that had
been Dresden for a steady 38 minutes. But this attack was not
nearly as heavy as the first two.
However, what distinguished this raid was the cold-blooded
ruthlessness with which it was carried out. U.S. Mustangs appeared
low over the city, strafing anything that moved, including a column
of rescue vehicles rushing to the city to evacuate survivors. One
assault was aimed at the bands of the Elbe River, where refugees
had huddled during the horrible night.
In the last year of the war, Dresden had become a hospital town.
During the previous night's massacre, heroic nurses had dragged
thousands of crippled patients to the Elbe. The low-flying mustangs
machine-gunned those helpless patients, as well as thousands of
other old men, women and children who had escaped the city.
When the last plane left the sky, Dresden was a scorched ruin,
its blackened streets filled with corpses. The city was spared no
horror. A flock of vultures escaped from the zoo, and fattened on
the carnage. Rats swarmed over the piles of corpses.
A Swiss citizen described his visit to Dresden two weeks after
the raid: "I could see torn-off arms and legs, mutilated torsos and
heads which had been wrenched from their bodies and rolled away. In
places the corpses were still lying so densely that I had to clear
a path through them in order not to tread on arms and legs."
DEATH TOLL STAGGERING
The death toll was staggering. The full extent of the Dresden
Holocaust can be more readily grasped if one considers that well
over 250,000-possibly as many as half a million-persons died within
a 14-hour period, whereas estimates of those who died at Hiroshima
range from 90,000 to 140,000 (1).
Dresden after the attack
Allied apologists for the massacre have often "twinned" Dresden
with the English city of Coventry. But the 380 killed in Coventry
during the entire war cannot begin to compare with over 1,000 times
that number who were slaughtered in 14 hours at Dresden. Moreover,
Coventry was a munitions center, a legitimate military target.
Dresden, on the other hand, produced only china-and cups and
saucers can hardly be considered military hardware!
It is interesting to further compare the respective damage to
London and Dresden, especially when we recall all the Hollywood
schmaltz about the "London blitz." In one night, 1,600 acres of
land were destroyed in the Dresden massacre. London escaped with
damage to only 600 acres during the entire war.
In one ironic note, Dresden's only conceivable military
target-its railroad years-was ignored by Allied bombers. They were
too busy concentrating on helpless old men, women and children.
If there ever was a war crime, then certainly the Dresden
Holocaust ranks as the most sordid one of all time. Yet there are
no movies made today condemning this fiendish slaugher; nor did any
Allied airman-or Sir Winston-sit in the dock at Nuremberg. In fact,
the Dresden airmen were actually awarded medals for their role in
this mass murder. But, of course, they could not have been tried,
because they were "only following orders."
This is not to say that the mountains of corpses left in Dresden
were ignored by the Nuremberg Tribunal. In one final irony, the
prosecution presented photographs of the Dresden dead as "evidence"
of alleged National Socialist atrocities against Jewish
concentration-camp inmates!
Churchill, the monster who ordered the Dresden slaugher, was
knighted and the rest of his career is history. The cold-blooded
sadism of the massacre, however, is brushed aside by his
biographers, who still cannot bring themselves to tell how the
desire of one madman to "impress" another one led to the mass
murder of up to to a half million men, women and children.
To this day, those responsible for this unspeakable act of
terrorism and barbarism have never had the decency to apologize to
the victims or their families. They have been too busy preparing
other acts of terrorism and barbarism.
Never forget! Remember the DRESDEN
HOLOCAUST!
Note
(1) Although it will never be possible to obtain an exact count
of the victims, a reasonable estimate can be adduced by taking the
number of registered inhabitants of the city, doubling it by a
factor of 2+ to account for undocumented refugees in the city at
the time, and then extrapolating the number of dead from analogous
instances in other German cities subjected to Allied saturation
bombing of civilians during World War II, notably Hamburg,
Darmstadt, Kassel and Pforzheim, inter alia.