RTP-area local music and culture

["5er (martin)" <mdhall005 AT yahoo.com>]

--- Chris Rossi <rossi AT webslingerZ.com> wrote:
> James Hepler wrote:
> > That was a good comeback and all, but Dresden is a
> > city, and there were no concentration camps in
> > Dresden.
> > 
> It was completely razed to the ground, though, in a
> few days time, over 
> the course of 100s of British and American bombing
> runs.  The 
> destruction was far more complete than Nagasaki or
> Hiroshima and was 
> achieved by way of thousands of conventional
> munitions.  There was 
> little military present in Dresden and the city did
> not play any kind of 
> critical military or industrial role for the 3rd
> reich.  It had been up 
> to that time, though, a center of art and culture
> for eastern Europe. 
> In addition to the tremendous loss of civilian life,
> an enormous 
> artistic and architectural patrimony was lost
> forever.
> 
> Oops, sorry!

at least Hep and the boys apologized....


-5er




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