Editing Bombing of Dresden (section)

===American===
[[John Kenneth Galbraith]] was among those in the Roosevelt administration who had qualms about the bombing. As one of the directors of the [[United States Strategic Bombing Survey]], formed late in the war by the American [[Office of Strategic Services]] to assess the results of the aerial bombardments of Nazi Germany, he wrote: "The incredible cruelty of the attack on Dresden when the war had already been won—and the death of children, women, and civilians—that was extremely weighty and of no avail".<ref>{{cite book|author=Paul, Clara M.|title=Dresden's Frauenkirche|publisher=[[Sächsische Zeitung]]|location=Dresden, Germany|year=2004|isbn=3910175163|page=21}}</ref> The Survey's majority view on the Allies' bombing of German cities, however, concluded:
{{blockquote|The city area raids have left their mark on the German people as well as on their cities. Far more than any other military action that preceded the actual occupation of Germany itself, these attacks left the German people with a solid lesson in the disadvantages of war. It was a terrible lesson; conceivably that lesson, both in Germany and abroad, could be the most lasting single effect of the air war.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080528051903/http://aupress.au.af.mil/Books/USSBS/USSBS.pdf US Strategic Bombing Surveys (European War, Pacific War),(Air University Press, 1987), pages 3 and 12]</ref>}}