When the subject turns to the slaughter of the innocents, Germany doesn't have a point that will hold water in my opinion and that includes the firebombing of Dresden,Hamburg and other major cities of the Reich. It seems the Dresden bombing is supposed to in some way cleanse their collective conscience for starting a war that took the lives of nearly 60,000,000 people....not to mention The Holocaust, or the starvation of 2 million Russian POWS. If you read some of the old newspaper and magazine reports written about Germany in the aftermath of WWII you will find that most Germans felt no remorse for the war...only that Germany had lost. This is why I always flinch a little whenever someone berates the Allies for the bombing of civilians in German cities. I believe Bomber Harris referred to this as "reaping the whirlwind" that Germany started. I certainly do not celebrate the killing of civilians of any nationality...not then and not now, but in war the civilians are usually the ones that suffer most on all sides.
Jim