Nashville (6): The Myth of Dresden and “Revenge Firebombing”
The largest section of Winston Churchill, Myth and Reality examines World War II: the leading source of Churchill myths. Did an actor deliver his broadcasts? Was Coventry bombed to protect his sources of intelligence? Was Churchill against the Second Front in France? Did he exacerbate the Bengal famine, destroy Monte Cassino abbey, refuse to bomb Auschwitz or feed the oppressed in occupied Europe? No. But no World War II canard is more persistent than the story that Churchill firebombed Dresden in hatred and revenge for Germany’s bombing of Coventry.…