Not sure this is in the right section really but yesterday on Radio 2 there was a former British soldier being interviewed who was in the thick of it at Dresden. Whatever one’s thoughts for or against what happened there it makes sobering listening to.
Go to one hour ten secs approx.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00yj1gg/Jeremy_Vine_14_02_2011
By: TonyT - 16th February 2011 at 11:54
I buy this magazine and it is very very good, the read on the HMS Jervis Bay brought the story to life, had heard the name but not the story before. The knew they were going to die when they turned towards the Admiral Sheer and even though she was sinking fast they carried on firing, these were not RN but Merchant marine guys!!!
http://www.britain-at-war-magazine.com/
The latest issue or perhaps the one previous ran the story of Victor Gregg, and perhaps this is where they picked up on it from……. he said he would never forgive them ( us) for what we did on that night, though it saved his life.
If you have never read it I would recommend it, it covers all aspects past and present.
By: JägerMarty - 16th February 2011 at 11:51
Gooday all
More than likely because butality is the same, no matter how much spin is put on it.
cheers
Well put 🙂
Will have a listen to that interview over the weekend
By: Proctor VH-AHY - 16th February 2011 at 01:24
Gooday all
More than likely because butality is the same, no matter how much spin is put on it.
cheers
By: Creaking Door - 16th February 2011 at 00:03
Interesting that it was featured on Radio 2 on the anniversary of the bombing and very interesting to hear the account from a British POW, Victor Gregg, who was under the bombs, particularly because he was awaiting execution at the time!
Although it is difficult to argue with what his feelings were about the bombing of Dresden isn’t it just a case of what he actually witnessed as opposed to what he didn’t witness? If he’d been in Leningrad during the siege (more than 1,000,000 civilian dead) or in Warsaw during the uprising (150,000 civilian dead) or seen conditions in the Warsaw Ghetto (100,000 civilian dead due to starvation or disease) or visited Auschwitz–Birkenau (an estimated 1,100,000 civilians murdered) or Treblinka (an estimated 750,000 civilians murdered) or Belzec (434,500 civilians murdered) or Sobibor (an estimated 250,000 civilians murdered) or Chelmno (an estimated 150,000 civilians murdered) or Majdanek (78,000 civilians murdered) and these are just the extermination camps and do not include any of the millions of labourers enslaved by the Germans and worked to death (some of them in Dresden); if Victor Gregg had seen these atrocities instead of witnessing the bombing of Dresden would his viewpoint be the same?
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February 15, 2011 at 10:11 am