Was the Bombing of Dresden Justified

Was the bombing of Dresden justified?

Justified
Not Justified
2. Dresden was a very important rail centre for moving tropos, concentration camp prisoners and materials of war.
4. Many industrial workers lived in the very centre of the city.
5. Dresden contained factories that produced shells, lenses for submarine periscopes, aircraft radios, fuses for anti-aircraft shells and engines for fighter aircraft.
11. In 1934, Germany withdrew from the Geneva Disarmament Conference, refusing to support a British proposal that aereal bombing be banned.
12. The russians were asking for help from Britain and the USA
13. Day bombing of precise targets had been tried and had resulted in huge casualities among air crews.
14. The war factories of Dresden employed around 10,000 people.
15. Dresden was very close to the Russian front line.
16. The Nazis had designated Dresden as a defended street by street if necessary.
23. German bombers had devastated many cities in Europe such as Rotterdam and Warsaw.
24. In November and December 1940 the centre of Conventry and the city of London had very nearly been engulled by firestorms as the Luftwaffe dropped incedaries. Only the small bombs loads prevented this.
1. Dresden’s rail yards were well away from the centre of the city.
3. Most factories were in the outskirts of the city, well away from the historic centre actually bombed.
6. Dresden was a city of great beauty.
7. Dresden held many priceless treasures.
10. The Russians were advancing swiftly into Germany.
17. The number of casualities were a direct result of the Nazi failure to provide air-raid shelters.
18. The British deliberately tried to start a firestorm.
19. So many bodies were left in Dresden that over 7000 has to be cremated on the market square.
20. So many people died in the basements of collapsed houses that the Germans called recovery workers “corpse miners”.
21. The gap between the British raids lured many German rescue services back out into the open.
22. Britain had never sought war.