Blog 2023 Malcolm Blair-Robinson

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Malcolm Blair-Robinson U.S          Malcolm Blair-Robinson U.K.

Today we rightly stop to consider the bombing of Dresden. A massive assault, creating a firestorm which destroyed thirteen square miles and killed at least 25000 civilians. This was not yet another act by an evil empire but a raid by Britain’s Bomber Command, supported by the US Army Air Force. It did not happen when we had our backs to the wall and our very survival was threatened. It happened when the war was all but over and the city was crowded with refugees in flight from the advance of the Red Army from the east.  Such an attack could not possibly affect the certain and soon outcome of the war in our favour. It was a war crime, but because we were the victors, we never had to answer for this unnecessary and cruel attack.

It is right and proper that all in Britain pause and think, hang our heads and show that we know and we care.