At about midnight, our leader marched us back to the railway line, where reinforcements and a food wagon had somehow been shunted in.Â. Financial institutions urged to invest NIS 20 billion in green infrastructure, Biden to give out vaccine reserves in bid to speed up lagging US campaign, Tesla CEO Elon Musk overtakes Amazon’s Bezos to become world’s richest person, Biden to pick Orthodox Jewish woman for White House cybersecurity post — report, Former mayor seriously injured amid spate of shootings among Arab Israelis, Cleantech startup UBQ converts used face masks into ecofriendly material, When we group Trumpists together with real Nazis, we blind ourselves to pain they feel – which we must see before we can expect them to see the pain of others. Some historians, however, said the destruction was a tragic waste of human life and cultural patrimony — with little to no effect on the outcome of the war. After serving for six years as a rifleman, I'd volunteered for the Parachute Regiment in 1944 — chiefly because they promised us extra leave. The comments below have not been moderated. At the time, the Allies hoped the attack on a city deep in the German heartland would hit hard at civilian morale and help force the Nazis to capitulate. The heavy pulsating throb of hundreds of heavy RAF bombers began to fill the air, getting louder by the second. Even if the Allies thought it would shorten the war, he said he thinks the bombing was unjustifiable. Then everything went dark. That’s a war crime,” he said. Elisabeth, who was a young woman of around 20 at the time of the Dresden bombing, has written memoirs for her children in which she describes what happened to her in Dresden. Renner’s family made it safely to the home of one of his dentist father’s patients. Harry suggested to me and the Yanks that it might be a good idea for us to kick some of the other prisoners away from the wall and get down as low as we could to give us a better chance of survival. 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That evening, I was told I'd be joining a batch of British PoWs, unless I wanted to continue the rescue work for another day. I'd experienced so much fighting by then that I thought of myself as indestructible. One by one, these unfortunates sank to the ground and died in a pyre of smoke and flame. My account of this tragedy, Dresden: A Survivor's Story , was published on the day of the anniversary this week. I have every respect for the brave lads of the RAF who flew those bombers. Somebody yelled that the roof was on fire, and they ventured out into the streets as the bombs rained down. What follows is Victors graphic account of the fate of Dresden, Dresden the city with no defences, there are accounts of what Victor found whilst helping to find survivors and his accounts of seeing people sucked into fires, three bombing raids followed each other, nationality means nothing when you are helping to find civilans hopefully trapped in their cellars where they might have escaped the firestorm At about 10.30pm, the air-raid sirens in Dresden — one of Germany's most beautiful cities — began their mournful wailing. On 13 February 2003, during the commemoration of the 58th anniversary of the Bombing of Dresden, inhabitants of Dresden, Germany, including survivors of the firestorm of 1945, joined together with witnesses of the bombing of Guernica to issue an appeal to the people of the world: As the noise of the planes died away, people started to appear from the few houses that were still intact, while other survivors clawed their way up through huge mounds of rubble.Â. He celebrated his 100th birthday in October last year. Again, I joined the crews unearthing shelters under tons of rubble. Day three. Nazi propaganda from 1945 put the death toll at 200,000 and after the war some scholars estimated as many as 135,000 were killed — more than the combined total of those immediately killed by the nuclear blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After half an hour, the second wave of bombers started to thin out. In spite of all our back-breaking toil, this was the only time I found anyone alive. Speaking at a memorial event in the rebuilt center of the city Friday, German President Joachim Gauck assured dignitaries from Britain and other former Allied nations: “You should know that we bear no lasting grudge.”. Even the railway line was a mass of twisted steel. Many Dresden residents died of collapsed lungs. Why was 'Elizabeth from Knoxville' holding an ONION as she sobbed about being 'maced' for storming the Capitol? We were taken by car to a building in the centre of Dresden, and thrown into a huge room. The city was now a mass of flame rising into the night. There was nothing we could do, so we marched away and bedded down for the rest of the night. Whatever the number, Renner mourns the victims as friends, schoolmates and neighbors. Then flares filled the night sky with blinding light, dripping burning phosphorus onto the streets and buildings. Instead, we ended up fixing bits of wood to our picks and shovels to turn them into stretchers for the injured. And she confronted Pharaoh anyway, in her hope for a better tomorrow, For it was, in days of yore, when the Israelites left Goshen and the battle was over, and still Raamses refused to accept that he just couldn’t compete (Shemot). We'd been chosen to fight the battle of Arnhem in the Netherlands, which ended in a major defeat for our side. The flames became more intense. Vonnegut was imprisoned in a cellar while the firestorm raged through the city, wiping out generations of innocent lives. Victor Gregg remained above ground throughout the firebombing. Eventually, Harry and I managed to sabotage the factory by causing a short circuit in the electrical system. Soon the fireworks began. I sneaked out before dawn the next morning, making my way towards the north side of Dresden. Huge fragments of material were flying through the air. The heavy metal door opened slowly to reveal a horrific sight. Only about a dozen of us were fit enough to walk. We ended up in a German work camp to the south of Dresden. So I had no presentiments of death when I was hurled from a plane that September, along with a few thousand other men. The sod was going to have the pair of us shot! Nothing could be done to help them. Sadly, this was a one-off event. The allied bombing of Dresden, Germany, from February 13 th, 1945, to February 15 th, 1945, epitomizes Werrell's statement. Dresden became the Electors and Kings of Saxony's l ong time capital and royal residence, who over centuries furnished the city with cultural and artistic splendour. This aerial campaign completely destroyed large sections of the inner city and killed an estimated 20,000 to 40,000 people. 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British rifleman Victor Gregg (pictured) was one of hundreds of men being held as a PoW in the city by the Germans. We’re really pleased that you’ve read X Times of Israel articles in the past month. As more buildings collapsed, we were enveloped by a new, huge blast of heat, and the air became so hot it was painful to inhale. Dr Birx warned White House American coronavirus could be '50% more transmissible' after winter cases surge to double rate of spring - but CDC says there's no evidence, A royal oversight! He gently lifted my shirt to reveal a mass of blisters across my back, then sent me to one of many aid centres that had sprung up outside the city. 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Without warning, around four incendiaries burst through our glass roof, shredding the men underneath.Â. It was then that we realised we were trapped in a locked cage that stood every chance of becoming a mass grave. Postscript. The heat was ferocious. For the first time since I'd joined the Army, I felt the floor moving. We were both condemned men, awaiting our turn for execution. And it did. Petrified prisoners wailed and banged on the doors, but our guards had by now all hot-footed it to shelters. On the third day of his trek, Victor was picked up by the Russians, who tended the blisters on his back and gave him new clothes. They were trying to put as much distance as possible between themselves and the advancing Red Army. It was about supporting an unhinged, dangerous serial liar, Please God, protect our government’s leaders, I’m a rabbi and I’ve never felt as strongly about the prayer for the government as I did after seeing the blasphemy of weapons on the floor of Congress, I’d rather not tell my sweet child about the far-right march that shut down her Jewish preschool here in Washington DC, Here’s how the community sabotaged its own political interests and reached a point when mask-burning and death-threats were somehow acceptable. Like a great car park in the sky, the heavens were suddenly full of aeroplanes, their outlines reflected in the glow of the flames. We could also hear the agonised screams of victims as they were roasted alive. As I write this now, I am 93. Dresden's old timber-framed houses were, one by one, succumbing to the fire, and most of the wreckage was landing on top of the cellars that people were using as shelters. When dawn broke, new gangs of men were already filling up huge craters along the railway and relaying the track.Â. Dresden's old timber-framed houses were, one by one, succumbing to the fire, and most of the wreckage was landing on top of the cellars that people were using as shelters. Day four. 'Something will turn up,' he said. 'Lindsey Graham you are a TRAITOR to this country': MAGA fans mob Senator at DC's Reagan Airport, call him 'a garbage human being' and say 'you better enjoy Gitmo' after he turned on the presidentÂ. When they hit the ground, a ball of fire blossomed, incinerating everything within a radius of nearly 200ft. It was never about whether being Republican was OK. 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