The Allied Bombing of German Cities in World War Two Was Unjustifiable
Intelligence Squared
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What Did It Do?
Anthony Beba is the author of such major bestsellers as Stalin, Brad Berlin and The Second World War. He says bombing achieved a great deal but flattened the opposite - it just killed 350,000 people. In terms of economic effects, those were muted even by 1944 when Germany was being subjected to heavier sales that there had been. German morale, of course, never cracked in the sense that people hoped it would. There was never a political overthrow or a political crisis. And I'm not aware of many German civilians like English, British,. civilians, objecting this at the time. It certainly constitutes perfect justification for flying over cities in return for legal attacks on occupied Europe. But revenge
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