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In the history of the world, many actors deserved the title of “Butcher” but there are only two persons whom Western historians, journalists, or political analysts pasted this label as the official mark of their participation in world history – General Ratko Mladić (the “Butcher of Bosnia”) and Slobodan Milošević (the “Balkan Butcher”). In the following paragraphs, it is going to be noticed more candidates for the title of “Butcher” as a small contribution to the proper interpretation and understanding of global history.
The Three Men of Slashing
It was in May/September 1945 when WWII ended – the bloodiest and most horrible war ever fought in human history. The war that caused the creation of the UNO in 1945 to protect the world from similar events in the future – a pan-global political-security organization that first issued a legal act was a Charter of the UN which inspired the 1948 Geneva Convention’s definition of genocide.
The Nüremberg and Tokyo Trials were organized as “The Last Battles” for justice as the first ever global trials for war criminals and mass murderers including the top-hierarchy statesmen and politicians. However, 78 years after WWII the crucial moral question still needs a satisfactory answer: Are all the WWII war criminals faced justice at the Nüremberg and Tokyo Trials? Or at least those who did not escape from public life after the war. Here we will present only one of those cases from WWII which has to be characterized as the genocide followed by the personalities directly responsible for it: The 1945 Dresden Massacre.
The 1945 Dresden Raid was surely one of the most destructive air raids during WWII but also in world history of massive military destruction and war crimes against humanity too.[i] The main and most destructive air raid was during the night of February 13th−14th, by the British Bomber Command when 805 bombers attacked the city of Dresden which up to that time was protected from similar attacks primarily for two reasons:
- The city was of extreme pan-European cultural and historical importance as one of the most beautiful “open-air museum” cities in Europe and probably the city with the most beautiful Baroque architectural inheritance in the world.[ii]
- The city lacked geostrategic, economic, and military importance.
The main air-born raid was followed by three more similar raids in daylight but now by the U.S. 8th Air Force. The Allied (in fact, the U.K.−U.S.) Supreme Commander-In-Chief the U.S. five-star General Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890−1969) was anxious to link the Allied forces with the advancing Soviet Red Army in South Germany. For that reason, Dresden suddenly became necessary and had to be taken into consideration as a point of high strategic importance and as a communication center, at least in the eyes of Eisenhower. However, at that time Dresden was known as a city that was overcrowded by up to 500,000 German refugees from the east. For the U.K.−U.S. Supreme Command Headquarters, it was clear that any massive air bombing of the city will cost many human lives and cause a human catastrophe. That was not primarily the only thing on Eisenhower’s conscience, but to decide to launch massive air-born attacks on Dresden or not as we must not forget that Eisenhower was only a military commander (a strategos in the Greek) and not a politician. Unquestionably, the Dresden question in January−February 1945 was of a political and human nature and not only a military one. Therefore, together with the Supreme Commander-In-Chief of the Allied Forces, a direct moral and human responsibility for the 1945 Dresden Massacre was on the British PM Winston Churchill (1874−1965) and the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882−1945) too.
These three men, however, finally agreed that the inevitably very high casualties in Dresden might in the end, nevertheless, help to shorten the war, that from a technical point of view this was true. During one night and one day of the raids, there were over 30,000 buildings destroyed, and the numbers of those who were killed in the bombing and the ensuing firestorm are still in dispute among historians as the estimations go up to 140,000. Here it has to be noticed that if this highest estimation number is going to be true it means that during the 1945 Dresden Massacre more people were killed than in the Hiroshima in August 1945 (around 100,000 or one-third out of the total Hiroshima’s pre-bombing population).
The “Bomber Harris” and the “Atomic Harry”
One person with direct responsibility for transforming Dresden into an open-air crematorium, as the city was bombed by forbidden flammable bombs for massive destruction (Saddam Hussein was attacked in 2003 by the NATO’s alliance under the alleged and finally false accusation to possess exactly such weapons – WMD) is “Bomber Harris” – a commander of the British Royal Air-Forces during the Dresden Raid. The “Bomber Harris” was, in fact, Arthur Travers Harris (1892−1984), the Head of the British Bomber Command in 1942−1945. He was born in Cheltenham, and joined the British Royal Flying Corps in 1915, before fighting as a solder in South-West Africa. He became the Commander of the Fifth Group from 1939 till 1942 when he became the Head of this Group (Bomber Command). The point is that it was exactly Arthur Travers Harris who stubbornly required and defended the massive area bombing of Germany under the idea that such practice will bring the destruction of Germany (including civil settlements) that would finally force Germany to surrender without involving the Allied forces into a full-scale overland military invasion. The crucial point is that this “Bomber Harry’s” strategy received full support from the British PM Winston Churchill who, therefore, became a politician who blessed and legitimized massive aerial massacres in the legal form of genocide as it was described in the post-WWII Charter of the UNO and other international documents on protection of human rights (for instance, the 1949 Geneva Conventions). Nevertheless, there were the “Bomber Harry”, Dwight Eisenhower, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill who transformed the bombing of selected targets such as transport systems, industrial areas, or oil refineries into the massive aerial destruction of the whole urban settlements with transforming them into the open-air crematoriums like it was done for the first time in history with Dresden – a city with a rare historical heritage (today the pre-war Dresden would be on the UNESCO list of protected places of the world’s heritage) but flattened during one night and one day.[iii]
This successful practice became very soon followed by the Allied forces in the cases of other German cities,[iv] like Würtzburg – a tightly packed medieval housing city that exploded in a firestorm in March 1945 in one night with 90% of it destroyed, it was a city which had no strategic importance.[v] However, a strategic bombing of the urban settlements in WWII reached its peak through the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki under the order by the U.S. President (Democrat) Harry Truman – the “Atomic Harry” (1884−1972) who authorized the dropping of the atomic bombs over these two Japanese cities in order to end the war against Japan without further loss of U.S. military troops, insisting on the unconditional surrender of Japan.[vi]
“The Last Battle for Justice” and the “Butchers of Dresden”
Surely, one of the most obvious results of WWII was “its unparalleled destructiveness. It was most visible in the devastated cities of Germany and Japan, where mass aerial bombing, one of the major innovations of the Second World War, proved much more costly to life and buildings than had been the bombing of Spanish cities in the Spanish civil war”.[vii] For that and other reasons, we believe that many Allied militaries and civil top decision-making personalities from WWII had to face justice at the Nüremberg and Tokyo Trials together with Hitler, Eichmann, Pavelić, and many others. However, it is an old truth that the winners are writing history and re-writing historiography. Therefore, instead, to see Dwight Eisenhower, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), Harry Truman, or Arthur Travers Harris at the Nüremberg and Tokyo Trials’ courtrooms as indicted on such charges as crimes against humanity and genocide as were the German Nazi defendants, who included the NSDAP’s officials and high-ranking military officers along with the German industrialists, lawmen, and doctors, we are even 78 years after the WWII reading and learning politically whitewashed and embellished biographies of those war criminals who destroyed Dresden, Hiroshima or Nagasaki as national heroes, freedom fighters and democracy protectors.[viii] For instance, in any official biography of Winston Churchill is not written that he is responsible for the ethnic cleansing of the German civilians in 1945 but we know that the British PM clearly promised the Poles to get after the war ethnically cleansed territory from the Germans.[ix]
If the Nüremberg Trial, 1945−1949 was “The Last Battle” for justice,[x] then it was incomplete. Moreover, two of the most ardent killers of Dresden – Churchill, and Eisenhower were granted after the war the second premiership and double-term presidentship, respectively, in their countries.
There were many (Western) butchers in world history but only small fishes (from the Balkans) are officially marked by the such label.
Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic
Ex-University Professor
Research Fellow at Centre for Geostrategic Studies
Belgrade, Serbia
www.geostrategy.rs
vsotirovic@yahoo.com
© Vladislav B. Sotirovic 2023
[i] On this issue, see more in [L. B. Kennett, A History of Strategic Bombing: From the First Hot-AirBaloons to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Scribner, 1982].
[ii] On Dresden’s history and architecture, see [W. Hädecke, Dresden: Eine Geschichte von Glanz, Katastrophe und Aufbruch, Carl Hanser Verlag, München−Vien, 2006; J. Vetter (ed.), Beautiful Dresden, Ljubljana: MKT Print, 2007].
[iii] On the case of firebombing of Dresden, see more in [P. Addison, J. A. Crang (eds.), Firestorm. The Bombing of Dresden, 1945, Ivan R. Dee, 2006; M. D. Bruhl, Firestorm: Allied Airpower and the Destruction of Dresden, New York: Random House, 2006; D. Irving, Apocalypse 1945: The Destruction of Dresden, Focal Point Publications, 2007; F. Taylor, Dresden. Tuesday, February 13, 1945, HarpenCollins e-books, 2009; Charler River Editors, The Firebombing of Dresden: The History and Legacy of the Allies’ Most Controversial Attack on Germany, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014].
[iv] On this issue, see more in [J. Friedrich, The Bombing of Germany 1940−1945, New York: Columbia University Press, 2006; R. S. Hansen, Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942−1945, New York: Penguin Group/New American Library, 2009].
[v] On Würtzburg’s case, see [H. Knell, To Destroy a City: Strategic Bombing and its Human Consequences in World War II, Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press/Pireus Books Group, 2003].
[vi] On this issue, see more in [C. C. Crane, Bombs, Cities, & Civilians: American Airpower Strategy in World War II, Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1993; A. C. Grayling, Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan, New York: Walker & Company, 2007].
[vii] J. M. Roberts, The New Penguin History of the World, Fourth Edition, London: Allien Lane an imprint of the Penguin Press, 2002, p. 965.
[viii] See, for instance [R. Dallek, Harry S. Truman, New York: Henry Holt and Company, LLC, 2008; J. E. Smith, FDR, New York: Random House, 2008; S. E. Ambrose, The Supreme Commander: The War Years of Dwight D. Eisenhover, New York: Anchor Books A Division of Random House, Inc., 2012; A. D. Donald, Citizen Soldier: A Life of Harry S. Truman, New York: Basic Books, 2012; W. Manchester, P. Reid, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940−1965, New York: Penguin Random House Company, 2013; B. Johnson, The Churchil Factor: How One Man Made History, London: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 2014; B. Harper, Roosevelt, New York City, Inc., 2014; P. Johnson, Eisenhower: A Life, New York: Viking/Penguin Group, 2014].
[ix] T. Snyder, Kruvinos Žemės. Europa tarp Hitlerio ir Stalino, Vilnius: Tyto alba, 2011, p. 348 (original title: T. Snyder, Bloodlands. Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, New York: Basic Books, 2010).
[x] D. Irving, Nuremberg: The Last Battle, World War II Books, 1996.
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Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt were war mongers as well as war criminals. Roosevelt cooked up a war with Japan as a back door to a war with Germany. Churchill used Poland as a trap to start a war in Europe and Hitler was suckered into the trap. There should not have been a WWII, but the American and British meddlers had to jump in and stir the pot because their goal was to destroy Germany. Today the American neocons and their British counterparts have Russia in their sights instead of Germany, and the Ukraine instead of Poland as… Read more »
And Hitler was their tool.
That would probably make perfect sense to a delusional schizophrenic!
Maybe you are alluding to the loan that Jewish bankers in Berlin (Herr Goldschmidt and Dr. Emil van Strauss) gave to the National Socialists in 1933.
The National Socialist (NSDAP) used Jewish bankers in Berlin, to get into power. But the German Economic miracle came from the issuing of their debt free and Interest free Reichsmark.
Hitler said, “for every mark that was issued we required the equivalent of a mark’s worth of work done or goods produced.”
This government-issued money wasn’t backed by gold, instead It was a receipt for labour and materials delivered to the government.
Plus he threw out Rothschild, the mother of all evil. The German economy recovered in 3 years.
Putin also threw out Khazarian-jew Rothschild mafia, and Russia started to gain wealth !
I disagree. I think the plan was a replay of WW1 & WW2, to destroy Germany and Russia and make Russia subservient to the west and go on another looting spree. And while we’re at it, lets include the 3 other Holocausts: The Russian Holocaust – 60 million Russians murdered by the Bolshevic jews The Palestinian Holocaust – 5 million Palestinians murdered or died of starvation at the hands of the British Army and jews The German Holocaust – 10 million Germans died of starvation due to British/US carpet bombing of German infrastructure These was no mention of gas chambers… Read more »
Nah, no replays of WWI & WWII in the nuclear age unless they want a fireworks display to end all fireworks displays. At that time America was building their Empire. Today they are trying to salvage their declining empire. Russia and China are big obstacles. And away we go!
You left out the linchpin in this whole plan, the Jews.
Yes, I could write a book about America in the Twentieth Century. Then I could name names and include the whole story. But this is just a comment, so I restrict it. I am happy if people start to realize how bad Roosevelt and Churchill were. That would be a good start.
Yes well said “Thankyou”
Germany is still the Anglo-Americans‘ target. Who destroyed Nordstream 2?
True enough!
WWII was the high point of industrialized warfare, begun in the 19th C, that necessitated mass mobilizations and, therefore, mass ideological indoctrination to persuade the public of its dubious moral rationale. It was no longer enough to fight for king and country–the other side had to be demonized as evil incarnate. But this not only got the masses to plunge themselves willingly into meat grinder offensives, it also desensitized them to genocidal atrocities against the civilian population of the other side in Total War. One would hope that by now we would smell that BS a mile away at the… Read more »
“The 1945 Dresden Massacre.”—The Dresden Holocaust would be more apt.
Holocaust
noun
–a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
–a sacrifice completely consumed by fire; burnt offering.
‘The Destruction of Dresden’ by David Irving is a must read, on one of the most evil crimes that was ever committed.
“…two of the most ardent killers of Dresden – Churchill, and Eisenhower…”
Dwight D. Eisenhower is more infamous for the Millions of Germans Killed from 1945 – 1953 in “The Morgenthau Plan”: Eisenhower’s Death Camps, in The German Genocide.
‘Other Losses’ by James Bacque, is a good place to start reading about the German Genocide.
The National Socialists were literally fighting against the Devil, and unfortunately the Devil won.
There was no war strategy involved in these bombings. It was openly stated the goal was genocide, said by Bomber Harris himself.
Agreed, but perhaps add Stalin to your list of butchers!
Absolutely.
Twelve of the thirteen gulags were run by jews. Stalin took full control in 1929 and set about closing them and ridding his country of the jewish menace. They were the equivalent of modern day ISIS and thousands flooded into Russia at the start of the western bankers backed Russian Coup.
If you ever read the three volumes of the The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, you will find that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ended up in the Gulag for simply referring to Stalin as the ‘moustached one’ in postal correspondence with another colleague, while Solzhenitsyn was serving as a decorated artillery officer in the Red Army. As far as I am concerned, Stalin was just another Jewish name changer, as his real name was Joseph Dzhugashvili (Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili) and the name Dzugashvili and its variant (Jughashvili), means “son of a Jew” in Georgian. How else could he have risen to the… Read more »
All of the old enmities are rising again between Europeans who have suffered invasions and atrocities by their neighbours, but there can only be one way through if all of that history is not to be repeated. LOVE thy neighbour. Hard, but what is the alternative? Endless injustices, and feelings of injustice, repeated for all eternity.
Why trade peaceful, friendliness, co-operation, and prosperity for that?
That is, behave like an “Intelligent Species”,
Here’s few more: Lyndon B. Johnson Was A Jew The traitor, war criminal, Holohoaxer and mass genocider Dwight W. Eisenhower was a half-Jew Harry Salomon Truman had Jewish heritage Woodrow Wilson was a Sephardic Jew Theodore Roosevelt & Franklin D. Roosevelt had Jewish heritage and were Zionist extremists Abraham Lincoln was certainly a Jew as European based Jews developed the practice of calling themselves grandly after the names of towns and countries. “Lincoln” was a name adopted by the Jews of Lincoln in England. All of these presidents betrayed and harmed white America. There’s at least 5 other jewish President in… Read more »
There was (and probably still is) a statue to Bomber Harris in London. It was unveiled by the German queen mother and it caused a lot of outrage, even in those days when people were less well informed than now.
What about Truman nuking two Christian cities in Japan?? FDR is debatable. Yes, forcing Japan into attacking Pearl Harbour and only leaving the WW1 tin cans in harbour.
As a Christian city it was strategically important.
Not many people are aware that Winston Churchill was a homosexual flasher who exposed himself to a plethora diplomats and British establishment figures. Churchill was also Jewish, as the Jerusalem Post journalist, Moshe Kohn, confirmed.
“Cunning, no doubt, came to Churchill in the Jewish genes transmitted by his mother Lady Randolph Churchill, née Jenny Jacobson/Jerome.” ———Moshe Kohn. Jerusalem Post, Jan.18, 1993.
Adolf Hitler offered the British Empire a very generous peace offer, after the Wehrmacht routed the British and Adolf Hitler even allowed the British to retreat across the channel at Dunkirk. But Winston Churchill did everything in his power, to not allow the British public to hear the German peace offer. The National Socialist German Workers’ Party sent the German peace offer to the British newspapers, who refused to publish it and Winston Churchill gave strict orders for British diplomats and ambassadors, based in Europe and beyond, to not hear any German peace offer. In one last attempt, Adolf Hitler agreed to… Read more »
Secret government documents reveal that the British Daily Mirro received over two dozen offers of peace between 1939 and 1941. Most notably in September 1939, October 1939, July 1940 (after the fall of France), January 1941, etc. The peace offers fell on deaf ears as Churchill would have none of it, he would instead continue doing his utmost to drag the US in the war. The warmongers would find other means of continuing the war. That’s the way Jews who were behind that all, try to change the history and keep themselves out of headlights. Hitler kick the Rothschilds and… Read more »
While in dire financial straits in the 1930s, Winston Churchill started to counterfeit art, as he took to faking the paintings of the deceased French impressionist Charles Maurin.
President Franklin D Roosevelt spotted Churchill’s little racket in 1942, and blackmailed Winston Churchill into doing the bidding of the United States.
ALL higher class jews, and many regular shit are gays, so they liked to stay together
There are “NO” high class jews LOL, they are Rat parasites, & decrepid scum,
Add Biden, Blinken, Sullivan, Pelosi and above all Nuland to the list of war criminals. Don’t hold your breath waiting for warrants from the ICC but they will all burn in Hell.
Why everyone call these ‘neo-cons’ when they all are just lunatic JEWS ? Blinken, Sullivan and Nuland
If you look at World War II maps, Wiki has good ones, you’ll see that Dresden was truly a crime. The Soviets were outside Berlin and Dresden is far to the south so could not support Germans in Berlin.