Out Of The Ashes

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2951279/Seventy-years-Britain-dropped-3-900-tonnes-explosives-city-pictures-reveal-Dresden-recovered-near-obliteration-German-cultural-centre.html

Amazingly clever before and after pictures of the devastation that was inflicted upon the German city of Dresden.

[Peter Pedant]

um er arent you arguing my point that it was pencilled in as a target

I dont see that one can argue that it cant have been a target because they did have a bomb to drop on it

History is of course being re written - and a decent wodge ( on the firebombing of Dresden ) has been re written to day before your very eyes

This is because history is a social construct and so is re written for every new generation. You might enjoy Michel Bloch's book, - what do historians do all day ?

[Peter Pedant]

In my readinng about this over the last few days
here is a link to a Japanese programm ( translated ) which examines how much the Japanese knew about being bombed back into the stone age.

Quite a lot and all done with call-signs ( sig-int I think )

http://ex-skf.blogspot.jp/2013/08/special-post-for-august-15-part-1.html

[ I am not sure if the Japanese broke any American codes -
there was no counter intelligence by the Japanese on whether their own codes had been broken [yes, extensively] because they assumed it would be too difficult ]