Movies about Hitler/WW2
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In mid-February 1945, when W. Churchill ordered the bombardment of Dresden (municipality with 1.2 million, including the war refugees living there), a place with no strategic importance and declared an open-city, more than 500,000 people were killed in one day; a number of 700,000 phosphorus bombed were dropped producing this disaster; it is interesting to know how the international propaganda used this event; a documentary from the 1950’s, about the destruction of Jews during the WW2, showed piles of corpses from this atrocious offensive against Dresden in 13-14 February 1945, as of their own; when this documentary was in Dresden theatres, the inhabitants of this city could recognise themselves on the screen as Dresden residents helping to remove the decomposed cadavers of their neighbours; this catastrophic event (worse than the atomic bombardment of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, considering the number of deaths) was a beginning of the long years of devastation for millions of people suffering, under communism;