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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (82702)3/16/2003 11:21:55 PM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Hi Jacob Snyder; Vonnegut was an American soldier of German extraction, captured and held in Dresden during the fire bombing. Here's a quote:

Vonnegut later commented that it was "a terrible thing for the son of an architect to see" (his father and grandfather were successful architects in Indianapolis). Many critics share the opinion that this event touched Vonnegut's soul and influenced his fiction. In the introduction to "Mother Night" he writes ironically: "... high explosives were dropped on Dresden by American and British planes (...); it was the largest massacre in European history, by the way." His bitterness was caused by the fact that American newspaper carried nothing about Dresden's destruction, which for him was a demonstration of dishonesty and a loss of moral sense.
albert.warka.pl

-- Carl

P.S. I should add that comparing Dresden to the Final Solution is a bit of a stretch. Two wrongs do not make a right.
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