Nah, it's still full of ugly DDR buildings outside the rebuilt city centre

No it’s not

@@robertoesterini1021Exactly! All these lying comments about how beautiful it is - BS! The old town is very beautiful, but the rest of the city is bland, East German Plattenbau not much different than Chemnitz. 😂

Es war kein schmerzhaftes Ereignis und auch keine Naturkatastrophe, es war eines der schlimmsten Kriegsverbrechen gegen die Humanität. Doppelte sprachliche Standards machen die Sache nicht besser.

@@rickyj4149 of course. Shame also for allies for destroying entire german cities with civilians. Shame for all ! Germans or allies.

I am from england and nobody from RAF bomber command involved in operation gomarrah is still alive..they passed away with dignity.

@@doctorsocrates4413 sad. Some of them maybe was haunted by all dead women and children from Dresda. I hope !

@@kniespel6243 It was an event in the world of that period..a world war..whether the scale of this bombing was justified i have no idea..yes it is unfortunate civilians died.

LOL

poor germans :(

They didn’t only do that to the Germans the Austrians also lost many historic buildings to bombing.

And it was equally criminal what Germany did to Coventry, London, Rotterdam and Warsaw to name a few

If a person views our reality in the holistic sense (who is unbiased right?) that person will be able to understand, ...... no country or nation is innocent of war and it's crimes. Now, relax.

exactly my point to begin with - one cannot judge one country's wartime actions over another when ALL of them have committed crimes in one shape or another....chill out @@patrickgelder-ph5yd

It took them that long clean up the rubble??

@@stoshbeast1 Most of the rubble had already been cleaned up, but where the buildings had stood, was then an emptyness. Then came modern buildings and during the last 30 years, after the reunion of Germany, they tried to reconstruct older (and more beautiful) houses.

There's a letter from the office of Churchill which I'll transcribe here: "It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed. Otherwise we shall come into control of an utterly ruined land. We shall not, for instance, be able to get housing materials out of Germany for our own needs because some temporary provision would have to be made for the Germans themselves. The destruction of Dresden remains a serious query against the conduct of Allied bombing. I am of the opinion that military objectives must henceforth be more strictly studied in our own interests rather than that of the enemy."

sure we will do

They won't do that..this video is purely to incite sympathy from the viewer...

Lenin and Stalin killed a lot of their own people i see the seige of Leningrad more as an liberation effort.

Das war auch ein riesiges Verbrechen,deshalb nie wieder Krieg von deutschem Boden.Deutsche und Russen müssen Freunde sein,andere Freunde hat Deutschland in der Welt nicht.

Yes, we lost the war - so we are guilty in every respect.

I wonder what such war crimes would have been called if the Russians had committed them. If committed by Americans they are usually called 'regrettable collateral damage'. Shame !

An odd thing to say, when area bombing was perfectly legal until the Special Ammendment to the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 in 1977. How did you work that one out?

@@MSM4U2POM Didn't Iraq, Lybia and Yugoslavia happen after 1977 ?? Do you need 'amendments' to judge if mass murder is legal or not ?

@@henryseidel5469 You don't necessarily need ammendments, but you do need existing law, my friend. The Special Ammendment is not retrospective, so it does not cover events that preceed it. A war crime is a very specific thing, and it can only be established in a court of law - not the court of public opinion.