[bullshit ode aan] volgens david I was lee met een hidden stop van vliegtuig hier om bernhard te ontmoeten in a'dam waarna hij naar america zou zijn vertrokken .om als patsy gebruikt te kunnen worden
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hapsburg bankers en communisme !
let me c/p this
Churchill - prince of a man
The British had known of Germany's intent to bomb Coventry due to an early intercept of Germany's Enigma code system by way of its Ultra codebreaking device. But Churchill vetoed interception of the Luftwaffe attack for fear that it would tip the Germans to the fact that their main code had been broken. Thus Coventry entailed a double deception on the part of the British. But this didn't deter Churchill from ordering "Operation Rachel." This was the codename for the December 12, 1940 Bomber Command attack on Mannheim. On the PM's direct order it was to be a reprisal for the considerable damage done to Coventry and the first occasion in the relatively brief annals of air warfare that an entire city was to be the deliberate target of attack.
So in just one episode, he allowed the deaths of hundreds of his own countrymen and ordered the deaths of thousands of German civilians.
As for the bombing of Dresden, in which close to half a million people died, what can be said other than it was an act of total barbarism.
February 13/14 1945: Holocaust over Dresden, known as the Florence of the North. Dresden was a hospital city for wounded soldiers. Not one military unit, not one anti-aircraft battery was deployed in the city. Together with the 600,000 refugees from Breslau, Dresden was filled with nearly 1.2 million people. Churchill had asked for "suggestions how to blaze 600,000 refugees". He wasn't interested how to target military installations 60 miles outside of Dresden. More than 700,000 phosphorus bombs were dropped on 1.2 million people. One bomb for every 2 people. The temperature in the centre of the city reached 1600 degrees centigrade. More than 260,000 bodies and residues of bodies were counted. But those who perished in the centre of the city can't be traced. Approximately 500,000 children, women, the elderly, wounded soldiers and the animals of the zoo were slaughtered in one night.
Remember, these were the actions of the supposed 'good guys'. The episode did nothing to shorten the war, nor to hamper the German military. In fact the war in Europe would be over in three months, the Germans already suffering immensely under the onslaught in Europe and the Eastern front.
The point of all this, of course, is to show that evil is not the exclusive property of the "enemy". Sometimes the bad guys are us.
ps - the real reason for the total annihilation of Dresden seems to be purely an Anglo-American show of strength to intimidate Stalin - and history shows us how effective that was.
[ Bericht 18% gewijzigd door merlin693 op 08-03-2006 01:45:47 ]