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Arthur Harris insisted right up to the end of the war that his bombers
bomb city centers as the most effective method of bringing the war to
the Germans and shorten it, if not cause them to surrender.

The really sad part was he had the example of the London Blitz right in
front of him. Bombing London did nothing to shake civilian resolve, and
probably had the opposite result.

for a week or two. A lot of people lost their jobs and their homes
because what got destroyed was center city businesses and residences,

The British called this 'Baedeker Bombing,' i.e., targeting city centers
where all the tourist attractions were located.

but they were for the most part not producing war materials. The
survivors now turned to the factories which were barely touched, and

I talked to survivors of the war in Berlin who told me the homeless would
pick the longest subway route (between Spandau and Gruenau) and ride all
night for a few pennies.

The British bomber pilots and crew suffered enormously for their
effort. Too bad the concept was so flawed.

The blame for those deaths should include the blunder of sending out the
bombers with no fighter protection. Had the allies invested a little
more in creating long-range fighters, this would have been quite different.

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In article ,
wrote:

Arthur Harris insisted right up to the end of the war that his bombers
bomb city centers as the most effective method of bringing the war to
the Germans and shorten it, if not cause them to surrender.

The really sad part was he had the example of the London Blitz right in
front of him. Bombing London did nothing to shake civilian resolve, and
probably had the opposite result.

for a week or two. A lot of people lost their jobs and their homes
because what got destroyed was center city businesses and residences,

The British called this 'Baedeker Bombing,' i.e., targeting city centers
where all the tourist attractions were located.

This was the German tactic:
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionar...edeker%20Blitz
http://modena.intergate.ca/business/boport/cbctv/

Quote:
By 1941 cities throughout Europe had been bombed by the Luftwaffe,

and helpless refugees had been machine-gunned from the air. These missions

were flown with the sole objective of terrorising the civilian population,
and

breaking any will to resist. In 1940-42 the Luftwaffe devastated London,

Coventry, Southampton, Bristol, Plymouth, Sheffield, Liverpool,Cardiff,

Glasgow and many other British cities. From April 1942 its raids on Britain

were specifically redirected against cities distinguished by three stars in
the

Baedeker guidebook as being "of outstanding historic or artistic interest."



The "three stars" thing is a quote from Nazi propagandist Baron Gustav

Braun von Sturm who said: "We shall go out and bomb every building in

Britain marked with three stars in the Baedeker Guide."



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1892714.stm



Paul