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RE: Today in History: First large German city falls in World War 2
Very interesting! I don't have a big fancy comment for this one. It was just a well written and very informative post. Thanks for sharing :)
I'm a big fan of World War 2 history so when that is the topic of the day I normally end up learning something as well. This one took me quite a while to write because most of it was news to me also. I think this battle kind of gets glanced over because it wasn't very well-executed and was momentous only because it was the first city taken.
It makes sense because it also gave them a conduit to run troops and supplies into the interior of Germany. I can see how it would be a pretty significant win.
of for sure. That much is evident. I guess they were disappointed that it took 17 days longer than they had hoped and 5,000 casualties. You know, war is awful and what not and we talk about how awful the Nazis were but they participated in evacuating the populous because they knew a major assault was about to happen.
I don't think people bother with stuff like that these days, especially whoever is defending, so they can blame the attacker for killing civilians.
Yeah, for sure. I think it is probably important to point out that they evacuated German citizens. I am sure if there would have been other nationalities living there they wouldn't have taken such care to make sure they were safe. It is sad to see the amount of collateral damage these days and how nations use its citizens as a shield or for political gain.
I agree. And it was a historic day for sure