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In 1941 Charles Portal of the British Air Staff advocated that entire cities and towns should be bombed. Port...
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In 1941 Charles Portal of the British Air Staff advocated that entire cities and towns should be bombed. Portal claimed that this would quickly bring about the collapse of civilian morale in Germany. Air Marshall Arthur Harris agreed and when he became head of RAF Bomber Command in February 1942, he introduced a policy of area bombing (known in Germany as terror bombing) where entire cities and towns were targeted.
One tactic used by the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force was the creation of firestorms. This was achieved by dropping incendiary bombs, filled with highly combustible chemicals such as magnesium, phosphorus or petroleum jelly (napalm), in clusters over a specific target. After the area caught fire, the air above the bombed area, become extremely hot and rose rapidly. Cold air then rushed in at ground level from the outside and people were sucked into the fire.
In 1945, Arthur Harris decided to create a firestorm in the medieval city of Dresden. He considered it a good target as it had not been attacked during the war and was virtually undefended by anti-aircraft guns. The population of the city was now far greater than the normal 650,000 due to the large numbers of refugees fleeing from the advancing Red Army.
On the 13th February 1945, 773 Avro Lancasters bombed Dresden. During the next two days the USAAF sent over 527 heavy bombers to follow up the RAF attack. Dresden was nearly totally destroyed. As a result of the firestorm it was afterwards impossible to count the number of victims.
The bombing of Dresden remains one of the most controversial events of World War II.
Although the Allies considered Dresden a military target, several historians regard Dresden more as a cultural landmark than anything else and assert that the number of civilians killed (over 150.000) was excessive to a criminal degree. (In the first few decades after the war, some death toll estimates were as high as 250.000...)
The raids saw 1.300 heavy bombers drop over 3.900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices in four raids, destroying 13 square miles (34 km²) of the city, the baroque capital of the German state of Saxony, and causing a firestorm that consumed the city centre.
Filmed on board of the Avro-Lancaster RAF British bomber we see lifting-off at the beginning of the video, this rare find comes with the original captured soundtrack of radio communications between the bombardier and the rest of the crew. Recently declassified RAF footage.
Editing by ROMANO-ARCHIVES.
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Uncensored silent color footage of the fires and the afterm...
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Warning: this video may be disturbing for someone.
Uncensored silent color footage of the fires and the aftermath of the saturation incendiary night bombing runs that destroyed Hamburg on 07-28-1943, causing the death of over 50.000 civilians and more than a million homeless. Original montage.
Calling "fair use" for the soundtrack, added in 2007 by ROMANO-ARCHIVES, performed by Gregor Samsa.
Editing by ROMANO-ARCHIVES.
To all the civilians of Hamburg, women, children and elderly men that did'nt see Christmas in 1943, killed by the Allied terror bombing campaign in WW2, this video is respectfully dedicated. R.I.P.
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WWII, Leningrad, wermacht
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Valery Gergiev conducts Shostakovich's 7th Symphony which salutes the sacrifices made during the Great Patriotic War as survivors of the Siege of L...
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Valery Gergiev conducts Shostakovich's 7th Symphony which salutes the sacrifices made during the Great Patriotic War as survivors of the Siege of Leningrad describe the first performance of this great symphony
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I have a very ordinary life in comparison, but I'm quite happy as long as music is part of it :)
Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart
xx
Annabel [beaming hugely]