Forgotten War Crimes
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"The holocaust was such an unthinkable horror, the Nazi dictatorship so
uniquely evil, that the calculated firebombing of more than half a Milan
defenseless civilians in the dying days of the war had just fallen by the
wayside."1 History is defined as all recorded events of the past, but with
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not have any military objectives which are stated throughout much of American
history. It was, however, the strategic bombing and slaughtering of a quarter
million innocent civilians.
American history textbooks and documentaries state that the official
objective in the bombing of Dresden was to destroy railway yards, thus delaying
or preventing the deployment of German troops to the eastern front. To destroy
rail-lines and rail yards, precision bombing is used. Contradicting this
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