Like many in my generation, I (sadly) didn't know much about he Allied firebombing of Dresden until Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s classic novel
Slaughter-house Five came out in the late 1960s. It was indeed a massacre from the air and I later studied it thoroughly in writing my books on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Anyway: We are now at the 68th anniversary and
here's an account of a very interesting battle there between a fairly large number of neo-Nazis and a larger gathering of anti-Fascists meeting their protest. The new Nazis want to use the mass killing to show how horrible the Allies were, thus making their guys a little nicer. They also inflate death figures (which are bad enougth) and use the word "holocaust" to balance the oven and death camps (that is, when they are not denying that).
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The large and eloquently vocal anti-fascist movement in Germany is a most important cultural transformation, for those of us who cling to the illusion of progress.
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