The night of February 13th, and February 14th, Valentine's Day, mark
an ominous anniversary in the history of Western Civilization. For beginning
on the night of February 13th, 1945, occurred the destruction of Dresden.
On the eve of Valentine's Day, 1945, World War II in Europe was nearly
over. For all practical purposes Germany was already defeated. Italy, and
Germany's other European allies, had fallen by the wayside. The Red Army
was rushing to occupy vast areas of what had been Germany in the East,
while the allies of the Soviets, the British and Americans, were bombing
what was left of Germany's defenses and food and transportation infrastructure
into nonexistence.
And what was Dresden? Most of you have probably heard of Dresden China,
and that delicately executed and meticulously detailed porcelain is really
a perfect symbol for that city. For centuries Dresden had been a center
of art and culture, and refined leisure and recreation. She was a city
of art museums and theatres, circuses and sports stadia, a town of ancient
half-timbered buildings looking for all the world like those of medieval
England, with venerable churches and centuries-old cathedrals gracing her
skyline. She was a city of artists and craftsmen, of actors and dancers,
of tourists and the merchants and hotels that served them. Above all, what
Dresden was, was defined during the war by what she was not. She had no
significant military or industrial installations. Because of this, Dresden
had become, above all other things that she was, a city of children, of
women, of refugees, and of the injured and maimed who were recovering from
their wounds in her many hospitals.
These women and children, these wounded soldiers, these infirm and elderly
people, these refugees fleeing from the brutal onslaught of the Communist
armies to the East, had come to Dresden because it was commonly believed
at the time that Dresden would not be attacked. Its lack of strategic or
military or industrial significance, and the well-known presence of hundreds
of thousands of innocent civilian refugees and even Allied prisoners of
war, seemed to guarantee safety to the city. Surely, it was thought, not
even a the most powerful and determined enemy would be so depraved and
sadistic, and so wasteful of that enemy's own resources, to attack such
a city. But the people of Dresden, who were happily attending the cinema
or eating dinner at home or watching the show-horses in the circus on that
fateful night were wrong, wrong, wrong. And their leaders were also wrong,
for the city was virtually open and undefended and only minimal civil defense
preparations had been made.
Dresden's population had almost doubled in the months before the attack,
mainly as a result of the influx of refugees from the Eastern Front, most
of them women and young children. According to British historian David
Irving, the briefings given to the British bomber squadrons before the
attack on Dresden were curiously different. In one, the soldiers were told
that their target was the railway center of Dresden. In another, they were
told that the target was a poison-gas factory. In yet another, they were
told that the target was a marshalling-grounds for troops in the
city. Another was told that the target was a major arsenal. These were
all lies.
The only marshalling-grounds for what few troops were in the area were
located well outside the city. The arsenal had burned down in 1916. There
were factories for toothpaste and baby-powder in Dresden, but none for
poison gas. There were, in fact, no fewer than eighteen railway stations
in Dresden, but only one was hit by the bombing, and that was barely touched
and in fact was operating again just three days later.
According to copious documentation unearthed by David Irving from the
archives of the American and British governments, the point of the attack
was in fact to inflict the maximum loss of life on the civilian population
and particularly to kill as many refugees as possible who were fleeing
from the Red Army. In achieving these goals it was highly successful. It
was thus planned and executed by those at the very highest levels of the
British and American governments, who to attain their purposes even lied
to their own soldiers and citizens, who to this day have never been told
the full story by their leaders.
How was this devastating effect accomplished?
At 10:10 PM on February 13th, the first wave of the attack, consisting
of the British Number 5 Bomber Group, began. The attacking force consisted
of about 2,000 bombers with additional support craft, which dropped over
3,000 high explosive and 650,000 incendiary bombs (more commonly known
as firebombs) on the center of the city. Incendiary bombs are not known
for their efficiency per pound in destroying heavy equipment such as military
hardware or railroad tracks, but are extremely effective in producing maximum
loss of human life. The loads carried by the bombers were over 75 per cent
incendiaries. In fact, the goal of the first wave of the attack was, according
to British air commander Sir Arthur Bomber Harris, to set the city well on fire. That he did.
The lack of any effective anti-aircraft defenses allowed the bombers
to drop to very low altitudes and thus a relatively high degree of precision
and visual identification of targets was achieved. Despite the fact that
they could clearly see that the marked target area contained hospitals
and sports stadia and residential areas of center city Dresden, the bombers
nevertheless obeyed orders and rained down a fiery death upon the unlucky
inhabitants of that city on a scale which had never before been seen on
planet Earth. Hundreds of thousands of innocents were literally consumed
by fire, an actual holocaust by the true definition of the word: complete
consumption by fire.
The incendiaries started thousands of fires and, aided by a stiff wind
and the early-on destruction of the telephone exchanges that might have
summoned firefighters from nearby towns, these fires soon coalesced into
one unimaginably huge firestorm. Now such firestorms are not natural phenomena,
and are seldom created by man, so few people have any idea of their nature.
Basically, what happened was this: The intense heat caused by the huge
column of smoke and flame, miles high and thousands of acres in area, created
a terrific updraft of air in the center of the column. This created a very
low pressure at the base of the column, and surrounding fresh air rushed
inward at speeds estimated to be thirty times that of an ordinary tornado.
An ordinary tornado wind-force is a result of temperature differences of
perhaps 20 to 30 degrees centigrade. In this firestorm the temperature
differences were on the order of 600 to 1,000 degrees centigrade. This
inward-rushing air further fed the flames, creating a literal tornado of
fire, with winds in the surrounding area of many hundreds of miles per
hour--sweeping men, women, children, animals, vehicles and uprooted trees
pell-mell into the glowing inferno.
But this was only the first stage of the plan.
Exactly on schedule, three hours after the first attack, a second massive
armada of British bombers arrived, again loaded with high explosive and
massive quantities of incendiary bombs. The residents of Dresden, their
power systems destroyed by the first raid, had no warning of the second.
Again the British bombers attacked the center city of Dresden, this time
dividing their targets--one half of the bombs were to be dropped into the
center of the conflagration, to keep it going, the other half around the
edges of the firestorm. No pretense whatever was made of selecting military
targets. The timing of the second armada was such as to ensure that
a large quantity of the surviving civilians would have emerged from their
shelters by that time, which was the case, and also in hopes that rescue
and firefighting crews would have arrived from surrounding cities, which
also proved to be true. The firefighters and medics thus incinerated hadn't
needed the telephone exchange to know that they were needed--the firestorm
was visible from a distance of 200 miles.
It is reported that body parts, pieces of clothing, tree branches, huge
quantities of ashes, and miscellaneous debris from the firestorm fell for
days on the surrounding countryside as far away as eighteen miles. After
the attack finally subsided, rescue workers found nothing but liquefied
remains of the inhabitants of some shelters, where even the metal kitchen
utensils had melted from the intense heat.
The next day, Ash Wednesday and Valentine's Day, 1945, medical and other
emergency personnel from all over central Germany had converged on Dresden.
Little did they suspect that yet a third wave of bombers was on its way,
this time American. This attack had been carefully coordinated with the
previous raids. Four hundred fifty Flying Fortresses and a support contingent
of fighters arrived to finish the job at noon. I quote from David
Irving's The Destruction of Dresden:
"Just a few hours before Dresden had been a fairy-tale city of
spires and cobbled streets .... now total war had put an end to all that.
...The ferocity of the US raid of 14th February had finally brought the
people to their knees... but it was not the bombs which finally demoralised
the people ... it was the Mustang fighters, which suddenly appeared low
over the city, firing on everything that moved .... one section of the
Mustangs concentrated on the river banks, where masses of bombed-out people
had gathered. ... British prisoners who had been released from their burning
camps were among the first to suffer the discomfort of machine-gunning
attacks .... wherever columns of tramping people were marching in or out
of the city they were pounced on by the fighters, and machine-gunned or
raked with cannon fire."
Ladies and gentlemen, on this program I can only give you a bare glimpse
of the inhuman horror of the holocaust of Dresden. In Dresden, no fewer
than 135,000 innocent victims died, with some estimates as high as 300,000.
More died in Dresden than died in the well-known attacks on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. More destruction befell Dresden in one day than was inflicted
on the whole of Britain during the entire war. And yet you haven't been
told.
I urge every one of you to read The Destruction of Dresden by David
Irving. I assure you, after reading Irving's book, you will never take
seriously the Establishment's version of what happened in that war again.
What you ought to take seriously, though, is the fact that the same
clique that controlled the traitorous Roosevelt and Churchill governments,
whose hatred of our race and civilization and whose alliance with Communism
were the real causes of the holocaust of Dresden, still controls our government
and our media today. It is they who are pushing for a disarmed, racially
mixed America. It is they who promote the teaching of sodomy to our young
children. It is they who are destroying our industrial infrastructure in
the name of a global economy. It is they who created the drug subculture
and then also the police state agencies which pretend to fight it. The
hour is very late for America and indeed for all of Western civilization.
But if patriots will heed our call, then there is no reason for despair.
For the enemies of our nation may have power, but their power is based
on lies. Won't you help us cut through the chain of lies that holds our
people in mental slavery?
Every year, families should commemorate the anniversary
of the holocaust of Dresden on the eve of 13th February.
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