Allied bombing of civilian targets in WWII

All true , that’s why there was a Hague convention .

Also,  there had been movements afoot to agree on the outlawing of aerial bombardments – these efforts came to nought , because no country in it’s right mind would give up such superior strategic fighting tool.

How did German civilian population ‘resistance’  manifest itself , and in what way did it change?

If we’re honest, we recognize the fact , that they surrendered by the hundreds of thousands. More so , than the Allied forces had or could have had anticipated ; that’s why the Allies had to cope for month with that bottleneck of feeding and housing gazillion German POW’s and DP’s. (see Rheinwiesenlagers)

It is certainly true, that old men were hauled out of retirement and very young boys from their mother's arms .

Dresden , as any other center , was nevertheless quite  involved in war production , not that it mattered to Harris.  

 This simple fact rubs  me ,  that it was not within character structure of Germans , to sue for an end of hostilities when the end was clearly in sight  - nobody , but Germans who had the power , or could/should  have had the power to do that , are to blame for that.   

Quite true , however only to a certain extend .

Fact is, Dresdners  did not in any way accomodate refugees or billet soldiers (especially not in the city core).

Both groups were in rail transit , refugees and injured soldiers heading  west  , soldiers  east. The main Dresden railway station in the centre of the city was merely a  welcome  stop over , volunteers fed  weary travellers with hot soup ,tea and coffee , attended to injuries , gave medicin  , and off they went  again , watched by  the police . (That's where many  of the corpses were collected)

Dresden was simply not equipped to bed & feed gazillion broke and half starving have-nots.

There are no records of transit or refugee camps , no orders to put up people in homes.

However there were many refugees who indeed came with push or pull carts , farmers with horses and wagons  and whatever belongings had been left over from robbers + thieves etc. (Polish people were especially brutal in this regard)

Those  on foot/horse refugees  were temporarily housed  mainly  in school halls or camped outside  along the River were there was food for the horses. ( only two schools suffered severe bomb damage)

At that point in time , in what was regarded as  a perfectly normal , military operation , within the framework of agreed upon , allied 24/7 bombing Germany to smithereens until she comes to her senses . 

I would call the unprovoked Luftwaffe attacks on Belgrade (30k dead) , Warsaw ,Rotterdam etc  pure terror attacks.

The old  numbers game again .

There it rested for decades , until  David Irving touted to the world an  uncertified , falsified , hand-typed copy of an uncertified , falsified , hand-typed copy of a Final President of Berlin Police Report the  Phantom of the Dresden-Dead-Opera was born.  And waxed upon .  Figures climbed as high as 250.000 even 300.000. Neonazis feasted on those numbers  .

Fact though is, that Irving had been warned on several occasions by Germans in the know , that his paper was a falsification  –Irving , on automatic , slow self-destruct , would not heed to reason.

Up popped the genuine article : the real Final Berlin Police Report , composed a  month after the horrible event ,(not like Goebbel’s  two days later) ,  it  stated the official casualty figure of 20.140 ( give or take some hundreds , I’m too lazy to dig it up) .

In fact , what had happened , was, that the first person who had hand-typed the first uncertified ‘copy’ , merely added a Zero to the official estimate figure , thus 20.140 became 201.400 .   David Irving , after the discovery of the genuine article, half recanted and arbitrarily ‘adjusted’  his  figures up and down depending on who was listening .

A darn charade , wich thankfully had been  ever so ably dealt with by Justice Grey during the Irving trial in London.

The Japanese were not at war with  the Allies , only with the U.S.A. , also,  until the Emperor so decreed, there was never talk of surrender , only a halt of hostilities with honor.

There were no direct channels of authorized communications  between Japan and the U.S.A. ,  hence Japan used Russia as intermediary. Russia did not forward all of Japans proposals , only some , others not at all.  Russia was not in the least interested in a militarily strong remaining Japan :

During the war , the Anglos formaly declared ,  that they would not claim one bit of conquered territory in Germany.

Of course the same held true for the U.S. vs. Japan.

  Hence Russia salivated at the prospect of devouring a prostrate , helpless Japan , that’s why she  , after the fall of Germany ,  started to relocate troops from the west to the east.  The negotiations were protracted because of the U.S.’s insistance of unconditional surrender , meaning the dethroning of the God-King. Eventually the U.S. relented , the Emperor retained his position and Japan laid down her weapons.

Here we go again.

From the Allied perspective at that time ,  it was as compulsory as it can get.

Two main reasons:

1) Churchill and Truman both agreed , that victory over Japan had to be swift , otherwise Russia would enter the fray at a convenient moment  , give Japan the coup de grace and lay claim over all of Japan , not just a few disputed Islands.

2) Projected  American casualties just to reach and conquer Tokio were in the order of 1 Million , not counting the North Islands and a native losses which would have been a multiple of American losses.

It was simply time to pull the plug.

There are dozens of mail bags in  museums with thank-you letters from Japanese people , saying they most certainly would not be alive today had it not been for the the U.S. to  finished  the war : the alternative would have been suicidal   fighting with sharpended bamboo sticks,  kitchen knives , internal killings and  starvation .

Asymmetrical wars are not winnable for the good guys who presumably have their hands tied.

Oh so true.

This is an outrageous statement    – the British fought a defensive war , to save their neck and soul – as did the Americans and the Russians .

Muslims  per se are not threatend one tiny bit , much less do they  even 'fight'  , (they even left the fighting during the WWI to the British)  Muslims  merely  kill + butcher in the most abominable manner  not imaginable , whomever and however it pleases them.

Well the United States certainly did not abandon their high ideals towards Germans , they helped them generously in every which way imaginable  - for what - only to be scorned ,  ridiculed and at every opportune and  inopportune moment to be viciously attacked by them.   

They will not do it again.

A comparison of W Allied and German "crimes", genocide, check, occupation of other countries, check, wars of agression, check.