Why do Nazi apologists, "Wehraboos" and Neo-Nazis really like to use Dresden as an example of showing how the Allies were just as bad as the Nazis?

[Chewbacca]

NOTE: THE ALLIES KNEW ABOUT AUSCHWITZ AND THERE IS PRIME EVIDENCE IT PLAYED A ROLE:. Just let me know if you have sources which counter this prime evidence.

@General_Alex

The fact that the air force commanders who were responsible for making decisions on bombing German cities, including other cities besides Dresden, did not factor stopping the holocaust or delaying it into their combat plans means that delaying the Holocaust and saving Jewish lives cannot be used as a defense of the bombing. It was a secondary effect at best, a positive one to be sure, but something that did not factor into the decision making process.

This is SIMPLY NOT TRUE, the communication says something I posted this already in the out of the foxhole questions but again. The holocaust DID play a part in the bombing campaign, Dresden was a mission and a part of the larger campaign so don’t expect the holocaust to come up on Navigation points/targets/Weight and Balance calculations and the formation coordination, etc etc.

@Chewbacca

The War Department, opposed to any diversion of military resources to non-military ends, rejected the idea in a confidential memorandum of early 1944. The Department also asserted that the bombing was unfeasible because it would involve the diversion of air power required to win battles elsewhere. The Department went on to point out the technical difficulties involved, and even asserted that bombing could cause German reprisals. The Department held that the most effective aid for the victims of persecution would be a quick Allied victory over the Third Reich and the other Axis countries, and that this was the goal towards which all available means should be used. The British Air Ministry held similar views. In a July 6, 1944 meeting with foreign secretary Anthony Eden, Jewish Agency representatives Chaim Weizmann and Moshe Sheraton proposed the bombing of the railroad lines from Budapest to Auschwitz, and of the extermination machinery within the camp itself. Eden and Prime Minister Churchill were receptive. On July 7, Eden wrote to Air Minister Archibald Sinclair on the feasibility of the attack. Sinclair replied on July 15 that the Allied bombing of the rail lines and the extermination facilities at Auschwitz could not be carried out, and that even if it were carried out, it would be of little benefit to the prisoners. At the same time, Sinclair proposed that the Americans be involved.

Source:
Henryk Świebocki " The Issue of Bombing Auschwitz" [in:] Auschwitz 1940-1945. Central Issues in the History of the Camp, vol. IV "

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