Dresden was literally part of a British terror bombing campaign designed to kill civilians. American forces accompanied and intensified the destruction because Dresden was also a target in the American strategic bombing campaign in Europe (we had a policy of strategic bombing in Europe, but US terror bombing was policy in Japan).
Strategic bombing is terror bombing. Killing civilians and terrorizing the survivors was the stated goal. If Israel needs to learn anything from the Allied experience of strategic bombing, it’s probably that it doesn’t fucking work.
From Wikipedia:
Area bombardment came to prominence during World War II with the use of large numbers of unguided gravity bombs, often with a high proportion of incendiary devices, to bomb the target region indiscriminately—to kill war workers, destroy materiel, and demoralize the enemy. In high enough concentration, it was capable of producing a firestorm.[35] The high explosives were often delay-action bombs intended to kill or intimidate those fighting the fires caused by incendiaries.[36]: 329
It’s also pretty dishonest to frame the conflict from Oct7 as some isolated event. Like the charge of genocide rests only on the events of the past hundred days. It’s not like the Allies had forced Germans into Dresden then walled it off before bombing it.
It should also be stated that Dresden is often used as a whataboutism by Holocaust deniers and Nazi apologists.
