Firebombing of Dresden

Dresden is a pretty neat city with lots of boats and stuff, but those guys there got sad regardless.

The Firebombing of Dresden was an event that happened that made a lot of people unhappy. It did many things, leaving thousands of guys upset over the course of its taking place, their feelings hurt in a variety of ways. Most of these guys that were upset were German: guys who lived in the place that it happened at or knew folks who did. They blamed the British, and also the Americans, though they thought the Polish might've had something to do with it too. That's why a bunch of German guys invaded Poland, which was not something uncommon, because there was a war going on: World War II. World War II was a time where lots of things happened that made people super upset. The firebombing was one of those things.

Casualties

According to the math guys, at least 22,000 people got hurt and over 25,000 of people's days were totally ruined by the firebombing of Dresden. This was much less than what the Germans said, but the German guys made a mistake. This is because they used the wrong numbers when they were doing their maths, and that's why they got to practice more.

Science guys say this is likely due to the presence of fire. Fire is something scientifically proven to have the effect of leaving people real sad. Additionally, bombs aren't good as well: Bombs are known to hurt people emotionally, but also probably on their bodies. A bomb will explode, and explosions when they are near you make it real hard to be happy. You need to go to a nurse or hang out in a hospital for a while before you are pretty ok again. Most of these guys were not that ok, because of all the bombs.

Attacks

On the 13th of February 1945, a bunch of planes from the Royal Air Force and the 527 of the United States Army Air Forces were flying above Dresden and decided to be mean, so they dropped a bunch of their firebombs on the city. The German folks that saw them do that thought that they made a mistake and asked them if they wanted all their firebombs back. But the planes said no.

Many believe that the mean planes were probably flown by mean pilots -guys who you wouldn't want to be friends with. Psychologists determine that they were the types that would probably go to your birthday party but wouldn't bring a present, even when they ate all the cake. The bombs landed on the city and that was unfortunate because people lived there. These people were the ones that would soon become sad. The bombs did things, such as break kid's Transformers and also burn down Lutheran churches. That part made the religious folk real unhappy, but they probably got over it because there are a lot of other churches in other places too, such as this one:

This is a church that religious guys were probably ok with, because its looks pretty nice as well.

Political Responses

German

The German's probably talked it over while eating Saurkraut and Bratwursts.

German politician folks were all angry and upset about it happening. They said that the German guys that were in the city were their friends, and that it was real mean to do that to them. They demanded that the British and the Americans say sorry and pay them back for all the stuff they broke and the people that got sad. They said that the British and American guys couldn't come back to Germany because they didn't like them anymore.

Additionally, the politician guys were upset about their culture: much of their culture things had gone away because of the firebombing. Before, Dresden was a really cool city but now, after the bombs it was just kinda cool. It wasn't even cool though, in fact, it was very warm. German folks don't like that much warmth.

They also said that the Ally guys had no reason to do the bombing, that all their military thingies were in a different place. It's really mean to attack someone when they don't have any military stuff around, according to the Geneva conventions. That was what the Germans cited when they made their argument. Geneva isn't in Germany though, it is in Switzerland, and that's why their argument was wrong.

Allied forces

There are lots of good places to get Bratwursts in Dresden.

The British guys thought that what they did was alright because there was a war. War is kind of like opposite day, except it goes on for years and sometimes people will get hurt, as they did in the firebombing. Even though this is true, some of them thought differently, like Winston Churchill, who really liked churches and didn't think it was nice to mess up the German's churches. He said that he could relate to the Germans because one time he and some of his friends were playing with firecrackers in a parking lot and a bush caught fire and the police had to come. It was super scary.

The American guys didn't care that much. They just said it was the British's idea to do that, and that they were just going along. They were just trying to have some fun flying planes around, but then then the British guys wanted to go and firebomb Dresden. Official classified documents released in 1979 support these statements.

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