Dresden Bombing: 70th Anniversary

Baroness Sharples Excerpts
Thursday 12th March 2015

(9 years, 11 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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My Lords, looking around the Chamber, I do not believe that there is anyone else who was in their 20s at the time of the bombing of Dresden. I certainly was, and I was serving as a driver in the Air Force. I remember very well that there was a great deal of criticism at the time of the bombing of Dresden, which I understood. However, the majority of us felt very strongly that the war would come to an end sooner—and I think we were proved right. I support the commemoration; it is an extremely good idea.