
Gomorrah 1943 - Part 1
WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
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The Dangers of a Firestorm
Hamburg is his number one target for the first 1000-Bomber rate. It's not, Cologne is chosen instead. And then they're starting to do serious work on German building construction from 1942 onwards. They're even carrying out tests on models of buildings with different types of roofing. I mean, it's absolutely amazing. But we really have to remember that this is also all new knowledge, science fiction. You know, like before you go anywhere near the atom bomb, you've got people figuring out how to induce a firestorm in order to kill lots of civilians.
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