Trippah wrote on 01/18/17 at 08:28:22:the firebombing of Dresden during WWII was not to destroy weapons, but to destroy the will of the German people to continue the War (I believe). As were Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the goal was to destroy the will, not the ability to fight.
Dresden was left untouched till it's destruction because it was a cultural center with no manufacturing. IIRC, more people died in Dresden then in H&N combined.
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