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The Allied Bombing of German Cities in World War Two Was Unjustifiable

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Did the Germans Develop an Atomic Bomb?

I believe there are a person in this room who doesn't really believe that had the Germans been able to do any more than they did that they wouldn't have done. Although you would have stopped the area bombing earlier, it wasn't impossible for the Germans to have been on the track of an atomic bomb. A lot of people in authority have said that even after the British crossed the Rhine had the Germans got an atomic device earlier. To what extent were high command aware of or rightly or wrongly that the Germans might be developing a bomb? Next question.

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