The Observer | Comment | Hitler was evil. Our bombs were not: "'I am sorry that my bombs killed many and made many homeless,' he concluded, 'but I am not ashamed. If a malignant growth must be cut out, without benefit of anaesthetic, then surrounding tissues are bound to be hurt. Had Nazi Germany won the war, the world would now be in an even worse mess. If the only merit was that the gas chambers were abolished, it is sufficient.' And that is why we most definitely do not need to apologise for Dresden. Not unless we want Goebbels to have the last laugh. ? Tony Rennell is the co-author with John Nichol of Tail-End Charlies - The Last Battles of the Bomber War, to be published next Thursday."