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Bombing of Dresden in World War II

There is a straw poll in progress at Talk:Bombing of Dresden in World War II#Avoid weasel terms. Please read what has been written and vote in it if you think it is of interest. It is a clear cut dispute about what should go into the top section of the article Bombing of Dresden in World War II. The issue is covered in detail in a sub-section Bombing of Dresden in World War II#Was the Dresden bombing justified? and that section although it influences the introduction is not involved in this straw poll. Philip Baird Shearer 21:50, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Well, the article is not exactly starting out very well with the sentence "Some have suggested that the bombing of Dresden may have been a war crime and that those allied commanders who ordered the action and the airmen who carried it out should be tried as war criminals." That's a weasel word. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:26, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

The poll was closed at 12:00 December 20, 2004, with a 10 votes to the next lagest vote of 3 to change the text in the opening paragraph to "The controversy is centred around the legal and moral justifications for the raids.".

The "Some have..." was addressed "22:53, 11 Jan 2005 Mozzerati (Was the Dresden bombing justified? - attribute war crime accusation to Joerg Friedrich)". It Now reads: The German Historian Joerg Friedrich has controversially suggested that the bombing of Dresden may have been a war crime... and it is sourced from the BBC web site. Unfortunatly to date, there is no information on who Joerg Friedrich is (other than he has published a book on the bombing of Dresden) and so there is no information to his prominance as a historian. Philip Baird Shearer 14:06, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)