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The Dresden Firebombing - Memory and the Politics of Commemorating Destruction (Paperback)
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The Dresden Firebombing - Memory and the Politics of Commemorating Destruction (Paperback)
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The firebombing of Dresden marks the terrible apex of the European
bombing war. In just over two days in February 1945, over 1,300
heavy bombers from the RAF and the USAAF dropped nearly 4,000
tonnes of explosives on Dresden's civilian centre. Since the end of
World War II, both the death toll and the motivation for the attack
have become fierce historical battlegrounds, as German feelings of
victimhood complete with those of guilt and loss. The Dresden
bombing was used by East Germany as a propaganda tool, and has been
re-appropriated by the neo-Nazi far right. Meanwhile the rebuilding
of the Frauenkirche- the city's sumptuous eighteenth-century church
destroyed in the raid-became central to German identity, while in
London, a statue of the Commander-in-Chief of RAF Bomber Command,
Sir Arthur Harris, has attracted protests. In this book, Tony Joel
focuses on the historical battle to re-appropriate Dresden, and on
how World War II continues to shape British and German identity
today.
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