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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;princeofwaldo, post: 1707100, member: 24091&quot;]Sorry, afraid you&#039;re wrong on all counts there.&nbsp; The Nazi propaganda was intended to convince German civilians on the eastern front to resist the Russian advance or risk annihilation by the invaders.&nbsp; The last thing the Nazis wanted was for them to flee which only sped the Russian advance on Berlin.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the British, revenge had little to do with it, though for certain it may have made them feel less guilty about what transpired.&nbsp; The real purpose in dropping 6 million pounds of incendiary explosives on the city was to show Stalin what the Russians could expect to happen to them if his troops advanced past eastern Europe.&nbsp; By February of 1945 there was little doubt about the outcome of the war, and FDR and Churchill were more concerned about the post-war and Russian occupation of eastern Europe than they were defeating the Germans or getting even with them or anything like that.&nbsp; It could be said that because of the Holocaust, and the proximity of Dresden to most of the concentration camps, that those Germans who fled there only to be killed had it coming.&nbsp; But again, wasn&#039;t part of the reasoning behind the events that destroyed the city.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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