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The Atrocious Bombing of Dresden, Germany
On February 13-14, 1945 the British Royal Air Force gave the final
clearance to commence what would later become known as one of the greatest
atrocities that has ever been commited against a civilian population. That
night the RAF launched 796 bombers and 9 Mosquitoes which carried 1,478
tons of explosives in addition to 1,182 tons of incendiary bombs (Dear
311) which turned the city of Dresden, Germany into a virtual inferno.
This attack included another strike by the US Air Force the following
morning. The attack on Dresden was never a legitimate act of war, and its
result was the terroristic mass murder of over 135,000 people.
Bombing civilian targets in enemy territory became an open issue on
March 30, 1942 when the Prime Minister's science advisor, Professor F.A.
Lindemann (who later was recognized as Lord Cherwell) delivered to Winston
Churchill a report which contained a strong argument in favor of striking
civilian targets. Cherwell's report contained the final rationalization
for the program Bomber Command was undertaking, and it would henceforth
be paper-clipped to the plans of the bomber offensive. (Hastings). In his
report, Lindemann estimated that forty tons of explosives detonated in
heavily populated areas would destroy the homes of 4,000-8,000 people. The
report also stated that there was a population of 22 million people in
fifty-eight of the major cities in Germany. Lindemann claimed that a
nation of refugees could be the result of strategic air attacks. It is
wildly believed among scholars that the information cont.ained in this
report was the basis of the attack on Dresden.
Lindemann's figures were correct, but his thinking was immoral
and inhumane. The people to whom his statistics referred so objectively
were innocent civilians, more than half of them women and children. The
assault upon them was nothing more that out-right murder. Any benefit
gained by destroying these civilians. lives, families, and homes was
countered ten-fold by the moral reprehensibility of such a clearly
criminal act.
The city of Dresden was a historic center of Europe, and was known
world wide for its splendid architecture. It was the capital of Saxony,
and located along the banks of the Elbe river. Dresden had very little
industrial activity, and it was a target only once before in a small raid
by the US Air Force in October of 1944. It was a city that was also known
for its production of fine China, and its glorious museums (Dear 311).
The main rhetorical challenge of this ironic essay is capturing the attention of an audience. Swift makes his point negatively, stringing together an appalling set of morally flawed positions in order to cast blame and criticize
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