With the exception of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, area bombing of civilian targets never once shortened a war.
The politicians aren’t affected and the civilians have no voice in wartime.
Remarkable-Base-2019 on
I’ve just finished listening to the audiobook Clean Sweep VIII Fighter Command Against the Luftwaffe 1942-45 by Thomas Cleaver and they describe the cities bombed and some repeatedly and this gives me a visual of it.
FiveFingerDisco on
Rumficken => Rausfinden.
AufdemLande on
Fuck the nazis, they destroyed Germany.
1000LiveEels on
Just googled Wesel. Crazy. 97% damaged, populated down from 45k to 1k by the end of the war. Almost completely annihilated basically.
After-Trifle-1437 on
Now they all look ugly as hell.
jimbo6889 on
fucked around and found out
OnlyOneChainz on
Göttingen should not be black, the city centre is completely preserved and has a lot of houses from the 15th and 16th century.
Infinite-Condition41 on
Feel bad for Wessel and Duren.
Okay. We tried that. Can we stop bombing civilians now?
divaro98 on
So many beautiful cities lost. Everywhere in Europe though… WW2 wiped out so many beautiful places.
At least, Dresden and Munich (and also smaller ones like Potsdam) tried to rebuilt their altstadt… Magdeburg, Stuttgart and Köln are so sad.
But there still are beautiful towns in Germany. Visited Bamberg and Coburg during Easter hollidays… I really loved it. 😊
Germany is such a beautiful, underrated country. 🇧🇪🍻🇩🇪
Novuake on
Interesting that Dresden wasn’t floored
Prestigious-Lynx2552 on
Apparently, Thuringia was the place to be.
PaulisPrusan on
Why didn’t their allies, Molotov and Ribbentrop ruSSians get destroyed and split up also, answer western FAIL
AtomicOpinion11 on
This is a map of modern Germany, not the Germany of the war. So this doesn’t make sense, it’s not showing a huge amount of the actual fighting area
OkCartographer7677 on
Dresden 60%?
From the stories I read I thought it would be worse.
Adamantium-Aardvark on
FAFO
GJohnJournalism on
It’s almost as if the poor decisions of a government that was voted in by misinformed and radicalized civilian population resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of those very civilians. Truly a leopard ate my face moment.
g_spaitz on
Wtf did wurtzburg do?
ROnneth on
Nice map. Was the map also made in 1940’s?
Lillienpud on
This makes it seem like West Germany and East Germany (the FRG and the GDR) were bombed by the allies. They weren’t. It was the German Empire, not shown on this map.
Critica1_Duty on
No doubt if WW2 were happening today, you’d have leftists shrieking about how the US is committing a genocide in Germany and calling for an immediate ceasefire..
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With the exception of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, area bombing of civilian targets never once shortened a war.
The politicians aren’t affected and the civilians have no voice in wartime.
I’ve just finished listening to the audiobook Clean Sweep VIII Fighter Command Against the Luftwaffe 1942-45 by Thomas Cleaver and they describe the cities bombed and some repeatedly and this gives me a visual of it.
Rumficken => Rausfinden.
Fuck the nazis, they destroyed Germany.
Just googled Wesel. Crazy. 97% damaged, populated down from 45k to 1k by the end of the war. Almost completely annihilated basically.
Now they all look ugly as hell.
fucked around and found out
Göttingen should not be black, the city centre is completely preserved and has a lot of houses from the 15th and 16th century.
Feel bad for Wessel and Duren.
Okay. We tried that. Can we stop bombing civilians now?
So many beautiful cities lost. Everywhere in Europe though… WW2 wiped out so many beautiful places.
At least, Dresden and Munich (and also smaller ones like Potsdam) tried to rebuilt their altstadt… Magdeburg, Stuttgart and Köln are so sad.
But there still are beautiful towns in Germany. Visited Bamberg and Coburg during Easter hollidays… I really loved it. 😊
Germany is such a beautiful, underrated country. 🇧🇪🍻🇩🇪
Interesting that Dresden wasn’t floored
Apparently, Thuringia was the place to be.
Why didn’t their allies, Molotov and Ribbentrop ruSSians get destroyed and split up also, answer western FAIL
This is a map of modern Germany, not the Germany of the war. So this doesn’t make sense, it’s not showing a huge amount of the actual fighting area
Dresden 60%?
From the stories I read I thought it would be worse.
FAFO
It’s almost as if the poor decisions of a government that was voted in by misinformed and radicalized civilian population resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of those very civilians. Truly a leopard ate my face moment.
Wtf did wurtzburg do?
Nice map. Was the map also made in 1940’s?
This makes it seem like West Germany and East Germany (the FRG and the GDR) were bombed by the allies. They weren’t. It was the German Empire, not shown on this map.
No doubt if WW2 were happening today, you’d have leftists shrieking about how the US is committing a genocide in Germany and calling for an immediate ceasefire..
Gottingone
Was hatte man denn mit Würzburg