Why did the UK have to bomb Dresden so badly..its a beautiful city...i was there Oct 2003.....?

Question

Why did the UK have to bomb Dresden so badly..its a beautiful city...i was there Oct 2003.....?

Answer 1

you should have been there in 1943.

read your history books.

Answer 2

i thought it was mostly the usa. it was to produce terror in the germans, force them to surrender.  like hiroshima in japan

Answer 3

So you could have useless thoughts like the one you have expressed............get real and wake and turn the  lights on to show somebody is home.

Answer 4

OK so there was this little misunderstanding between Germany and the rest of the world.........



allies could only effectively bomb at night from high altitudes Dresden was a major manufacturing hub  so they couldn't target the factories so they used incendiaries and created a firestorm  if the story of it interests you read slaughter house five

Answer 5

Both the RAF and the US's Army Air Force participated in that bombing. It was a tactical move to support Soviet forces and disrupt German communications.