Someone started a "Dresden Bombing" thread on another forum I frequent and, peacetime Bomber Command ground crew veteran that I am, I leapt to Bomber Harris's defence. The thread starter was man enough to admit that he had not been aware of the facts that I included - especially the involvement of "Ultra" intelligence on the fortification of the city against Marshal Koniev's advance - and acknowledged that he had been wrong to describe the attack as unjustified.
Those who condemn the bomber offensive as a war crime miss the point that WW2 was an all out war that had to be ended as quickly as possible by totally destroying the enemy's ability to wage war. The same applies to the atomic attack on Hiroshima, hundreds of thousands died so that tens of millions might live.