Was the Allied bombing of Dresden a possible war crime?

I wasn't new to murder and bloodletting. I had enlisted two years prior to the outbreak of the second world war and by the time I was 21 I had taken part in one major battle and various smaller ones. read more

Look, I don't at all deny that there's such a thing as war crimes, or that it's possible for war crimes to be committed, or that war crimes were, in fact, committed in WW2. But to stretch the concept of"war crimes" around something like the bombing of Dresden is ridiculous. War crimes laws are for things like the Holocaust. read more

The bombing of Dresden was a British/American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, during World War II in the European Theatre. In four raids between 13 and 15 February 1945, 722 heavy bombers of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and 527 of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped more than 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices on the city. read more

DRESDEN. THE WORST WAR CRIME OF WWII Fifty-two years ago, the Allies decided to make of the city of Dresden a moonscape. The holocaust unleashed on Dresden had no strategic or tactical advantage whatsoever for the Americans or the British. read more