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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/80774322-8df0-4d77-98fc-3d8343d36040/A5129FF6-E716-4FD9-A05E-B7FF3C5ED514/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II&oldid=215056159" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II&oldid=215056159" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II&oldid=215056159"><P>The <B>bombing of Dresden</B> by the British <A title="Royal Air Force" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Force">Royal Air Force</A> (RAF) and <A title="United States Army Air Force" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Air_Force">United States Army Air Force</A> (USAAF) between <A title="February 13" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_13">February 13</A> and <A title="February 15" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_15">February 15</A>, <A title="1945" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945">1945</A>, 12 weeks before the <A title="German Instrument of Surrender" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Instrument_of_Surrender">surrender</A> of the Armed Forces (<I><A title="Wehrmacht" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wehrmacht">Wehrmacht</A></I>) of <A title="Nazi Germany" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany">Nazi Germany</A>, remains one of the most controversial Allied actions of the <A title="World War II" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II">Second World War</A>. The raids saw 1,300 heavy bombers drop over 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices in four raids, destroying 13 square miles (34 km²) of the city, the <A title="Baroque" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque">baroque</A> capital of the German state of <A title="Saxony" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxony">Saxony</A>, and causing a <A title="Firestorm" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestorm">firestorm</A> that consumed the city centre.<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-1"><A title="" href="#cite_note-1">[2]</A></SUP> Estimates of civilian casualties vary greatly, but recent publications place the figure between 24,000 and 40,000.<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-2"><A title="" href="#cite_note-2">[3]</A></SUP></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II&oldid=215056159"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/en.wikipedia.org/img/5F73222E-AF12-44B8-B5B7-D17E183DCCBE" alt="Air Chief Marshal Arthur Harris, head of RAF Bomber Command, strongly objected to Churchill's comparison of the raid to an "act of terror," a comment Churchill withdrew in the face of Harris's protest." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II&oldid=215056159"><DIV class="thumbcaption">
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Air Chief Marshal <A title="Arthur Harris" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Harris">Arthur Harris</A>, head of <A title="RAF Bomber Command" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Bomber_Command">RAF Bomber Command</A>, strongly objected to Churchill's comparison of the raid to an "act of terror," a comment Churchill withdrew in the face of Harris's protest.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A5129FF6-E716-4FD9-A05E-B7FF3C5ED514/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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