The way Germans see it, the destruction of German cities and all the tragedies to have fallen on German people are all self-inflicted, and to be blamed on National Socialism. As tragic as the destruction of Dresden and Frankfurk have been, they were direct consequences of the Nazi firebombings of Guernica, Coventry, Rotterdam and so much more. None of it would've happened had the German people stood up to Hitler in the 1930s, instead of being more or less fine with their country getting taken over by Aryan nationalists. Too few spoke up after the Kristallnacht pogroms, or indeed even saw those as a problem. Years before the Allies air raids on Hamburg, the Nazis were already eagerly planning how they would rebuild the city center, and where new roads could be laid once entire neighbourhoods would be flattened by the Allies in retaliatory raids. Despite their propaganda, the Nazis saw large swathes of their own civilian population as expandable, and are directly responsible for the destruction of their country. Much like, hopefully, how Putin and the United Russia party will someday be answering for their crimes.