=== cut === there were 110 factories and 50,000 workers in the city supporting the German war effort at the time of the raid.[35] According to the report, there were aircraft components factories; a poison gas factory (Chemische Fabrik Goye and Company); an anti-aircraft and field gun factory (Lehman); an optical goods factory (Zeiss Ikon AG); as well as factories producing electrical and X-ray apparatus (Koch & Sterzel AG); gears and differentials (Saxoniswerke); and electric gauges (Gebrüder Bassler). It also said there were barracks, hutted camps, and a munitions storage depot.[36]
The USAF report also states that two of Dresden's traffic routes were of military importance: north-south from Germany to Czechoslovakia, and east-west along the central European uplands.[37] The city was at the junction of the Berlin-Prague-Vienna railway line, as well as the Munich-Breslau, and Hamburg-Leipzig lines.[37] Colonel Harold E. Cook, a US POW held in the Friedrichstadt marshaling yard the night before the attacks, later said that "I saw with my own eyes that Dresden was an armed camp: thousands of German troops, tanks and artillery and miles of freight cars loaded with supplies supporting and transporting German logistics towards the east to meet the Russians === cut === It is important to remember that the bombing of Dresden, and several other targets, was requested by the Soviet high command. The Dresden raid was authorised by Deputy Prime Minister Attlee, while Churchill was en route to Yalta in February 1945. The first question Churchill was asked by Stalin upon arrival in Yalta was, “Why haven’t you bombed Dresden?” === cut ===
Colonel Harold E. Cook, a US POW held in the Friedrichstadt marshaling yard the night before the attacks, later said that "I saw with my own eyes that Dresden was an armed camp: thousands of German troops, tanks and artillery and miles of freight cars loaded with supplies supporting and transporting German logistics towards the east to meet the Russians".
there were 110 factories and 50,000 workers in the city supporting the German war effort at the time of the raid.[35] According to the report, there were aircraft components factories; a poison gas factory (Chemische Fabrik Goye and Company); an anti-aircraft and field gun factory (Lehman); an optical goods factory (Zeiss Ikon AG); as well as factories producing electrical and X-ray apparatus (Koch & Sterzel AG); gears and differentials (Saxoniswerke); and electric gauges (Gebrüder Bassler). It also said there were barracks, hutted camps, and a munitions storage depot.[36]
The USAF report also states that two of Dresden's traffic routes were of military importance: north-south from Germany to Czechoslovakia, and east-west along the central European uplands.[37] The city was at the junction of the Berlin-Prague-Vienna railway line, as well as the Munich-Breslau, and Hamburg-Leipzig lines.[37] Colonel Harold E. Cook, a US POW held in the Friedrichstadt marshaling yard the night before the attacks, later said that "I saw with my own eyes that Dresden was an armed camp: thousands of German troops, tanks and artillery and miles of freight cars loaded with supplies supporting and transporting German logistics towards the east to meet the Russians
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It is important to remember that the bombing of Dresden, and several other targets, was requested by the Soviet high command. The Dresden raid was authorised by Deputy Prime Minister Attlee, while Churchill was en route to Yalta in February 1945. The first question Churchill was asked by Stalin upon arrival in Yalta was, “Why haven’t you bombed Dresden?”
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Ну, понятно, что эти "гуманисты" на Сталина кивать будут. Но, повторюсь, после немецких "подвигов" у нас, лично мне никакой Дрезден не жалко.
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