The Good War and The Cold War - Dresden, February 13 -14, 1945

======================================================================
Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message.
======================================================================

>
> By Jacques R. Pauwels
>
> clip --
>
> Dresden was obliterated in order to intimidate the Soviets with a
> demonstration of the enormous firepower that permitted bombers of the RAF
> and the USAAF to unleash death and destruction hundreds of kilometers away
> from their bases, and the subtext was clear: this firepower could be aimed
> at the Soviet Union itself. This interpretation explains the many
> peculiarities of the bombing of Dresden, such as the magnitude of the
> operation, the unusual participation in one single raid of both the RAF and
> USAAF, the choice of a “virginal” target, the (intended) enormity of the
> destruction, the timing of the attack, and the fact that the supposedly
> crucially important railway station and the suburbs with their factories and
> Luftwaffe airfield were not targeted. The bombing of Dresden had little or
> nothing to do with the war against Nazi Germany: it was an American British
> message for Stalin, a message that cost the lives of tens of thousands of
> people. Later that same year, two more similarly coded yet not very subtle
> messages would follow, involving even more victims, but this time Japanese
> cities were targeted, and the idea was to direct Stalin’s attention to the
> lethality of America’s terrible new weapon, the atomic bomb.[27] Dresden had
> little or nothing to do with the war against Nazi Germany; it had much, if
> not everything, to do with a new conflict in which the enemy was to be the
> Soviet Union. In the horrible heat of the infernos of Dresden, Hiroshima and
> Nagasaki, the Cold War was born.
>
>
> full article --
>
> http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24631.htm
>
>
>
>
________________________________________________
Send list submissions to: Marxism <at> lists.econ.utah.edu
Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/marxism%40gmane.org