the inductive powering through the wood floor got my upvote.

"Dresden is best known for it's historic buildings."

I guess they cut the part that goes on, "Which were all burned to the ground along with a million or so civilians when British bombers firebombed the city after the surrender of Germany."

>> ^Drachen_Jager:

"Dresden is best known for it's historic buildings."
I guess they cut the part that goes on, "Which were all burned to the ground along with a million or so civilians when British bombers firebombed the city after the surrender of Germany."


I believe the allies hadn't even crossed the Rhine when the dresden bombing took place.

"The River Rhine was not crossed until 23 March 1945, after the Dresden raid. German V rockets were dropping on London and Antwerp at the time of raid."

just sayin

>> ^Drachen_Jager:

"Dresden is best known for it's historic buildings."
I guess they cut the part that goes on, "Which were all burned to the ground along with a million or so civilians when British bombers firebombed the city after the surrender of Germany."


Accidental upvote. The bombing is true and terrible, but not the dating.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II

Tags for this video have been changed from 'vw, phaeton' to 'volkswagen, phaeton, dresden glass factory' - edited by xxovercastxx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparent_Factory

*promote the people's car.

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Friday, January 14th, 2011 12:31pm PST - promote requested by xxovercastxx.

5:01 - so cool!

As far as I can find, you're wrong, but information on the matter is fairly sketchy.

Dates ranging from February to March (March date only on wikipedia, that oh so solid source for information.... ) - Germany's surrender was in May. and death tolls ranging from 20,000 to 500,000. All depending on who's viewpoint you take - the political responses section is interesting on Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II#German

However, probably the largest hole I can poke in your comment is this recent investigation which was undertaken by '13 prominent German historians' in 2008.

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Historical Investication
For decades historians have accused the Allies of killing up to 500,000 civilians on the night of February 13 1945, when British and American planes destroyed the old city centre.

But a special commission, comprising 13 prominent German historians, has now revealed that the previous figures were exaggerated or derived from dubious sources.

Instead, they concluded that no more than 25,000 people died during the attacks, debunking the claims of many revisionist historians who wished to compare the bombing to the Holocaust.

The commission, assembled in 2004 and headed by one the country's most prominent military historians, Rolf-Dieter Mueller, studied all the available evidence about the event - much of which was examined for the first time.

Mr Mueller said that the final report of the commission, to be published next year, aims to end the "ludicrous speculation" about the Dresden causalities, which was used for propaganda by the Nazis.
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With that in mind, "A million or so civilians" and "After the surrender of Germany" seems a bit much.

Either way, this is a video about a German car factory - and a pretty cool one at that. Upvoted for the auto-bots.

>> ^Drachen_Jager:

"Dresden is best known for it's historic buildings."
I guess they cut the part that goes on, "Which were all burned to the ground along with a million or so civilians when British bombers firebombed the city after the surrender of Germany."