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The Dresden Firebombing - Memory and the Politics of Commemorating Destruction (Hardcover)
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The Dresden Firebombing - Memory and the Politics of Commemorating Destruction (Hardcover)
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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 tons
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
victim hood compete with those of guilt and of 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 18th 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
some seventy years later.
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