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In Dresden, a memorial inscription about the bombing of the city by the American and British Air Forces in February 1945 was removed.
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Honestly? Good. The Nazis tried to spin the bombing of Dresden as a war crime and West Germany always tried to keep it as an example of how "all sides bad." It wasn't good, obviously, but it has been a rallying point for neo-nazis to try and control the narrative around ww2.
It was a war crime though? And it wasn't even effective at shortening the war; the brits were able to field more fighters while the nazis were occupied with London instead of airfields and factories, bombing canals or oil depots in europe could immediately stop deliveries for weeks, while blowing up some factory worker his home doesn't affect production as the factory just hires someone else.
I'd agree if the plaque said "The nazis were just defending themselves from the big bad (((allies)))" instead of something to the effect of "This is blowback"