They started it
Sir: The bombing of Dresden, (`Looking back to the horror of the past', 16 July) was indeed a tragedy. It was unfortunate that so much wonderful building was destroyed. But it was not an act of perversity! In that context of war the manoeuvre was strategic.
Apart from its important industry Dres- den was a railway junction of military sig- nificance, with lines to Berlin, Bremen, Leipzig for the Ruhr, Nuremberg for Stuttgart, to Pilsen in Czechoslovakia and Prague and Brno, and Breslau for Silesia.
It was for that reason that General Eisen- hower ordered Arthur Harris to have Dres- den on his list of targets.
Now why did the Luftwaffe bomb so many of Wren's city churches in London? And Buckingham Palace? And Coventry Cathedral? Why did Germany start the war in the first place?
George Caldwell
Clinic 10-04 Gleneagles Medical Centre, 6 Napier Road, Singapore 1025
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