BY MIKE
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German authorities have inexplicably removed a memorial to civilians killed by the 1945 US-UK bombing. Dresden’s removal of the Altmarkt (Old Market) memorial is an ’act of historical vandalism,’ Maria Zakharova has said.
The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman accused the German authorities of revisionism on behalf of London and Washington.
British and American bombers first struck Dresden on February 13, 1945, killing hundreds of thousands of Germans, many of them civilians and fleeing refugees.
Several thousands were cremated at the Altmarkt and, for many years, a stone bench on the square bore an inscription commemorating the slaughter of the innocents – until it was removed recently.
‘The peaceful areas of Dresden were subjected to a completely disproportionate, terrifying bombing bordering on a war crime,’ Zakharova said in a Telegram post on Tuesday evening, suggesting that the UK and the US deliberately destroyed the city because it was assigned to the future Soviet occupation zone.
‘Tens of thousands of civilian casualties remained a reminder that even the fight against National Socialism cannot justify the senseless killing of children for political purposes,’ Zakharova said, adding that the memorial became an inconvenient irritant to Germany’s membership in NATO after reunification.
The German government is now erasing history even as it supports ’the glorification of fascist criminals by the government in Ukraine,’ Zakharova wrote. ’We should demand the speedy restoration of the historical inscription!’
The now-removed Altmarkt memorial called the site a place of remembrance, memory and commemoration of the 1945 carpet bombing of German cities and towns, ’when the horrors of war that spread from Germany across the entire world returned to our city.’
In a statement on Tuesday, Dresden authorities acknowledged that the inscription had been removed, but called it part of a planned redesign commissioned in 2019 and apologized that this was not communicated in advance.
‘The location of the inscription on a bench has repeatedly been criticized for not being worthy because people were sitting in front of the text. There was also damage and repeated graffiti,’ according to the city hall.
‘The criticism in this matter is justified because we acted extremely poorly from a communications perspective,’ said Mayor Dirk Hilbert. ’However, we will not accept that this occasion is used for ‘hate speech and conspiracy theories.’
Several years ago, Dresden began a project to ’contextualize’ some of the ’problematic’ monuments. In 2022, a stone stele with more information about Altmarkt was placed near the memorial bench, but was damaged during construction work last year, the city hall said, adding that the repaired stele would be put up by next week at the latest.
According to the city hall, the new stele will say that the February 1945 air raids have been politically exploited and reinterpreted and that Dresden accepts its ’historical responsibility’ for Nazi crimes against humanity and calls for ’maintaining and promoting peace in Europe and worldwide.’
NOTES FROM WITNESS TO HISTORY by Mike Walsh (Banned by Amazon): ‘Nobody knows for sure just how many people innocent civilians were bombed and burned to death in Dresden. What is beyond dispute was that its destruction was of no military significance whatsoever. It is conceded that the wholesale indiscriminate slaughter did not shorten the war by as much as a minute, nor was it intended to.
The Allies to all intents and purposes won the war by February 13 – 14. The city had no military, political or industrial significance. The British Government were well aware that it was defenceless, which through the attackers’ eyes might be considered an advantage.
The city’s 600,000 population was swollen by an estimated further 500,000 refugees fleeing from the Red Army. The palace media has put the numbers slaughtered as low as 30,000. This in such a situation is a good example of holocaust denial.
During World War 2 more bombs by weight were dropped on the city of Berlin than were released on the whole of Great Britain during the entire war.
All German towns and cities above 50,000 populations were from 50% to 80% destroyed. The great city of Dresden, dubbed the Florence of Northern Europe was incinerated with up to 300,000 civilians burned and buried in the ruins.
Hamburg was destroyed and 70,000 civilians died in the most appalling circumstances whilst the ancient City of Cologne was turned into a moonscape. The only surviving building was the city’s cathedral. It was saved not because of its spiritual symbolism but because it guided and allowed RAF and U.S. Air Force bombers to blanket bomb the entire city.
‘In terms of personal success, there has been no career more fortunate than that of Winston Churchill. In terms of human suffering to millions of people and destruction of the noble edifice of mankind there has been no career more disastrous.’ – The European and English Journal
‘One closes these volumes feeling, uneasily, that the true heroes of the story they tell are neither the contending air marshals nor even the 58,888 officers and men of Bomber Command who were killed in action. They were the inhabitants of the German cities under attack; the men, women and children who stoically endured and worked on among the flaming ruins of their homes and factories, up till the moment when the allied armies overran them.’ – London Times reviewer on the British Official History of the Strategic Air Offensive.
‘There are no final figures on the number of civilians killed as a result of the mass-bombing, but 2,000,000 would be a very restrained figure (estimate).’ – Professor Harry Elmer Barnes, Ph.D. American historian. NOTE: WITNESS TO HISTORY Mike Walsh has been republished by The Barnes Review. Detail to follow.
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