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NNadir

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3. Kurt Vonnegut, in an interview I watched on line recently, said that there was only one person who benefitted...

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue Feb 13, 2024, 08:07 AM

Feb 2024

...from the bombing of Dresden. He said it was him, since Slaughterhouse Five made him famous and rich.

The rest of humanity lost.

War is always atrocity ratcheting, and it that which makes war always be a crime against humanity.

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On this day, February 13, 1945, the Allies begin firebombing Dresden. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2024 OP

About 78,000 people died in hiroshima. Omnipresent Feb 2024 #1

They didn't have an atom bomb to drop on Dresden or any other city with "White People." NNadir Feb 2024 #2

Kurt Vonnegut, in an interview I watched on line recently, said that there was only one person who benefitted... NNadir Feb 2024 #3

And if Hitler had the same chance ... Charging Triceratops Feb 2024 #4