the legends that some German cities (Heidelberg, Baden-Baden etc ....) were spared from bombing in W

There is absolutely no freaking way for Germany to move everybody out of all their cities above 100,000 to somewhere else to house them, feed them, sanitation etc etc.
You seriously think any given country got tents for that, for instance?
What the hell dude.

And why not? You saying the allied carpet bombed those cities month after month because of the color of the roof tiles or something? lol

All you got going is coming up with an excuse why targeting civilians happened. But by default it's a warcrime and that burden is on the allied.

 

Many cities were emptied after the people left them and those that were bombed were left with no shelter or food or sanatation and again you miss the point the couldn't evacuate them out because they were part of the war effort which made the cities targets. It wasn't the people.

 

Absolute nonsense. You even blame the civilians for not having shelter or food when they got bombed. The cities were targets, because the civilians were the targets. The US even build German civilian housing in Utah to test their firebomb capabilities to get a maximum result. The civilian houses were build in detail, including toys and clothes. Do note, that the US during those days was an apartheid state where it was legally alright to go fanatically racist towards black people. That state of mind they had, resulted in testing houses with toys to see how to burn it all down... so even the German children were targets.

The US did the same thing for Japan.


That's the burden of the allied.

 

Parts of Frankfurt were spared so that the HUGE I.G. Farben building could be used as a US Army headquarters. It was still V Corps Headquarters when I was stationed in Germany in the 1980's. Parts of Mainz were spared to house US personnel. I've stayed in the American Arms ... a military hotel there. Beautiful.

 

So it is. Sadly so.

 

Not sure how any rumors about German cities being "spared" from bombing got started. If you look at photos of Cologne, Hamburg, Munich, and many other German cities after they were bombed, the last thing you think is that any of them were "spared". And what the Allies did to Dresden was nothing short of a deliberate war crime!

 

A war crime?