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Hatalles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-13-10 02:41 PM Original message |
Neo-Nazis rally on Dresden bombing anniversary |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-13-10 02:48 PM Response to Original message |
1. On the anniversary of the Dresden bombings |
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theoldman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-13-10 02:56 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. During a bombing, Americans troops are not at risk. |
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Journeyman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-13-10 04:05 PM Response to Reply #4 |
13. Tell that to the American prisoners inside Dresden that night. . . |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-14-10 05:17 PM Response to Reply #13 |
38. Reply 1 spoke of taking risks. Reply 4 changed the wording to "at risk." |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-14-10 01:57 AM Response to Reply #4 |
34. You mean, they felt like Londoners? |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 08:49 AM Response to Reply #4 |
58. 160,000 casualties of the USAAF bombing campaign... |
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AlienGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-13-10 02:57 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. We should remember the civilians who died, too. Kurt Vonnegut would want us to. |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-13-10 03:16 PM Response to Reply #1 |
10. They were not on the ground |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 11:05 AM Response to Reply #1 |
59. Some of us can remember more than one thing at a time. |
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47of74 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-13-10 02:49 PM Response to Original message |
2. And people came together to peacefully stand in opposition to these scum bags |
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heli (276 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-13-10 02:56 PM Response to Original message |
3. The price of war and aggression. They should send their complaint form to their Führer |
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theoldman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-13-10 03:01 PM Response to Original message |
6. The bombing of Dresden was not one of our finer moments. |
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RedstDem (356 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-13-10 03:12 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. A thing to think about in all this |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-13-10 03:13 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. No, the bombs were right on target |
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DissedByBush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-13-10 03:23 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Dresden was retaliation for Britain |
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fedsron2us (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-13-10 08:54 PM Response to Reply #11 |
26. A case of what goes around come around |
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DissedByBush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-14-10 11:01 AM Response to Reply #26 |
36. And here I thought we were supposed to be better |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-14-10 05:27 PM Response to Reply #26 |
39. The karma is all over the place. Sucks when the "good guys" can't claim the high road |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-14-10 02:03 AM Response to Reply #11 |
35. Seems fair and just to me. |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-14-10 05:31 PM Response to Reply #35 |
40. You don't distinguish between a civilian in Dresden and Hitler and his "enforcers"? |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-14-10 07:35 PM Response to Reply #40 |
53. I don't distinguish between a civilian in London and a civilian in Dresden. |
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DissedByBush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-13-10 03:15 PM Response to Original message |
9. I was raised ignorant of this |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-14-10 06:04 PM Response to Reply #9 |
41. Hiroshima, mon ami? |
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DissedByBush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-14-10 07:13 PM Response to Reply #41 |
51. Hiroshima was bad, but at least it had a goo, rational reason |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 12:01 PM Response to Reply #9 |
63. Read up sometime on the fire bombing of Both Tokyo and Hamburg. |
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Libertas1776 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-13-10 03:23 PM Response to Original message |
12. We really screwed the pooch at Dresden, |
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Stella_Artois (838 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-13-10 04:43 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Why ? |
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fedsron2us (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-13-10 06:06 PM Response to Reply #15 |
20. Interesting point |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-13-10 10:32 PM Response to Reply #20 |
29. I do know that people in Tokyo who survived the war |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-14-10 06:07 PM Response to Reply #15 |
42. I didn't see anyone say Dresden was the only black mark. The OP is about Dresden, tho'. |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-13-10 06:47 PM Response to Reply #12 |
25. As a German American I find it difficult to forget that Dresden supported |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-14-10 06:21 PM Response to Reply #25 |
43. I am not seeing the connection between your German heritage and your claims. |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 12:42 AM Response to Reply #43 |
56. Many of us who are German felt a quilt for what happened even though |
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naaman fletcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-13-10 04:39 PM Response to Original message |
14. Kurt Vonnegut was there.. |
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mrbarber (884 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-13-10 04:45 PM Response to Original message |
16. Dresden wasn't a miltiary target... |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-14-10 06:24 PM Response to Reply #16 |
44. Sure is. Just ask the Iraqis and Afghanis. Fortunately, America is never gets holier than thou, eh? |
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activa8tr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-13-10 04:53 PM Response to Original message |
17. Today is the anniversary of the starting of that bombing, which continued |
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hayu_lol (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-13-10 05:14 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Dissed made the point which always has to be made... |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-13-10 06:20 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. Hiter's PR filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl claimed in the biographical film |
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activa8tr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-13-10 06:31 PM Response to Reply #18 |
24. You make no sense with your last statement, and, quite frankly |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-13-10 10:48 PM Response to Reply #24 |
32. Welcome to DU, activa8tr. |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-14-10 06:48 PM Response to Reply #18 |
45. I disagree that the point always has to be made. Maybe we could sometimes |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 11:31 AM Response to Reply #18 |
61. oy |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-13-10 05:27 PM Response to Original message |
19. Why should THEY get to own that???? |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-13-10 06:14 PM Response to Original message |
21. And yet, German ministers will tell you today that Dresden had to die |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-14-10 07:00 PM Response to Reply #21 |
47. No one forced anyone to fire bomb towns with no military targets or |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-14-10 10:01 PM Response to Reply #47 |
54. I wish we hadn't bombed Dresden. It was a bad decision and accomplished nothing. |
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24601 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-13-10 06:30 PM Response to Original message |
23. "I hate Illinois Nazis" Jake Blues (1980) n/t |
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ConcernedCanuk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-13-10 09:18 PM Response to Original message |
27. USA has a history of slaughtering civilians - I guess that makes them terrorist #1, right? |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-14-10 07:02 PM Response to Reply #27 |
49. Good thing Canada is perfect, eh? |
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dugaresa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-13-10 09:21 PM Response to Original message |
28. What the Neo Nazis fail to remember is that Dresden is the direct result of Mr. Hitler starting it |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-14-10 06:54 PM Response to Reply #28 |
46. Hitler stunk So did firebombing civilian towns.. One thing does not cause or excuse the other.. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-13-10 10:34 PM Response to Original message |
30. ... "We have for the first time succeeded in preventing the biggest neo-Nazi march in Europe," said |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-13-10 10:46 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Maybe we should invite these good people over here for a training seminar. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-13-10 10:52 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. Maybe. "Where are we going and why am I in this handbasket?" |
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Turbineguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-14-10 04:35 PM Response to Original message |
37. They want to cause a repeat? |
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RZM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-14-10 07:02 PM Response to Original message |
48. The question of German victimhood in WWII is an interesting one |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-14-10 07:06 PM Response to Reply #48 |
50. Welcome to DU. Nice to see a reasoned, balanced, honest post. |
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Kurska (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-14-10 07:31 PM Response to Original message |
52. A Excerpt from Alan Clark's Barbarossa: The Russian-German conflict. |
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and-justice-for-all (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-14-10 10:20 PM Response to Original message |
55. I hope all the Neo Nazi fucks got jail time for their display... |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 02:00 AM Response to Original message |
57. There's way too much revisionist bullshit on this thread!!! |
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Codeine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 11:40 AM Response to Reply #57 |
62. Your death toll figure |
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gulfcoastliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 01:10 PM Response to Reply #62 |
64. Does sound a bit Goebbelish to me, too. |
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fedsron2us (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 05:54 PM Response to Reply #64 |
66. Every country in Europe can pile up its civilian war dead |
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Stella_Artois (838 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 03:59 PM Response to Reply #57 |
65. Strange post |
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Raskolnik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 09:18 PM Response to Reply #57 |
67. Really? "The same reasoning that led to millions being killed in the ovens..." |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 11:08 AM Response to Original message |
60. Why isn't the headline that 10,000 people rallied against a march of 5000 neo-Nazis? |
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