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by Dr. Peter Hammond
The Bombing of Cities in WW II
THE IMPORTANCE OF HISTORY
History tells us what has
worked, and what has not.
We need to develop the
ability to recognise these
lessons in every area of
life.
“The longer you look back, the further you can
look forward.” Winston Churchill.
“If we don’t know
our own history,
we will simply
have to endure all
the same
mistakes,
sacrifices and
absurdities all
over again.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
“Those who cannot remember the past, are
condemned to repeat it.”George Santayana.
“To be
ignorant of
what has
happened
before you
were born is
to remain a
child
forever.”
Cicero
“It is not the remembered, but the forgotten,
past that enslaves us.” C.S. Lewis
“History is, and
must ever
continue to be,
next to God’s
Word, the richest
foundation of
wisdom, and the
surest guide to
all successful
practical activity.”
Philip Schaff
“Histories are a true school for learning
how to order our lives.” John Calvin
“Now these things
occurred as
examples, to keep us
from setting our
hearts on evil
things…”
1 Corinthians 10:6
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by Dr. Peter Hammond
Eminent British War historian, Captain Sir Basil Liddle Hart, described
the strategic bombing campaign by RAF Bomber Command during the
Second World War as: The most uncivilised means of warfare that the
world had known since the Mongol invasions.
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain declared that England’s
policy of bombing cities in Germany:
was absolutely contrary to international law.
Just before being ousted in Winston Churchill’s coup, Prime Minister
Chamberlain announced: His Majesty’s government will never resort to
the deliberate attack on women and children and other civilians,
for the purpose of mere terrorism.
Shortly after replacing Chamberlain as Prime Minister, Winston Churchill
declared: Our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery in
the air… the bombers alone can provide the means to victory.
Marshall of the Royal Air Force, Lord Trenchard, as early as 1921,
declared that: The next war could be won by bombing alone,
by destroying the enemy’s will to resist.
From this perspective, an entire strategic philosophy developed,
which was to dominate British,
and later American, military strategy.
It was the Italian General Gilulo Douhet, who predicted that
in the next war, bombers would inflict millions of civillian casualties
in a matter of days.
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Stanley Baldwin described this new military philosophy in the House of
Commons: The only defence is offence, which means that you have to
kill more women and children, more quickly than the enemy,
if you want to save yourselves.
Although aircraft was only invented in 1903, and first used militarily in
the First World War (1914 – 1918), books and films had developed a
public dread of aerial bombing out of all proportion to its actual threat.
Inspired more by the science fiction novels of H. G. Wells, and Alexander
Korda’s film, Things to Come, Royal Air Force experts declared, as an
article of faith, that: the bomber will always get through !
Strangely, these men failed to anticipate that technical developments in
one area of warfare are soon matched by counter measures in other
areas. Aircraft had advanced rapidly in WWI.
Just as gas warfare was soon countered by gas masks.
anti-aircraft technology would soon catch up.
Night bombers would soon be countered by
night fighters.
Yet many British politicians and military leaders leapt upon
this philosophy of faint hearts.
After the disastrous battles of WWI, with entire
divisions decimated in the battle of the Somme,
Passchendaele and Ypres
the British feared to face the German soldier on the battlefield
and sought for an indirect way of winning a war.
Instead of losing hundreds-of-thousands of soldiers
facing the German Army on the ground,
they would drop millions of tonnes of bombs on German cities
from a safe height of ten thousand feet or more.
British military strategists concluded that what had actually won the
First World War was the British Naval blockade, which had led to
starvation conditions in Germany.
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It became an article of faith amongst the chiefs of staff that the
bombing of German cities would achieve victory in the war without the
need to commit their armies to the kind of ground war that had caused
so many casualties on the Western front in 1914 to 1918.
Underlying this philosophy was the assumption that German civilians
would crack under the pressure of sustained bombing.
Actually, despite enduring the most sustained aerial bombardment
,for over five years, they never did crack.
In fact war production steadily increased.
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When, during the Spanish Civil War, the nationalists bombed
Barcelona, in 1938, reportedly 1,300 inhabitants were killed.
From this British aerial experts concluded that
each tonne of bombs dropped would inflict 72 casualties.
{In fact the casualty rates at Barcelona were barely 3 casualties
to every tonne of bombs dropped.}
But this figure was treated as definitive and
on this basis, the Home Office predicted one million casualties
in London in the first few days of the next war.
But this alarmist nonsense had no basis in fact.
Of the half a million killed in the entire Spanish War, less than 3% were
killed by air raids. However, as those facts did not support Bomber
Commands’ philosophy, they were suppressed at the time.
The fact that the German Luftwaffe had no four engine bombers,
nor any plans to produce any in the future, was also suppressed.
The entire German Luftwaffe was plainly
geared to ground support of the Wehrmacht.
The Heinkel 111 and Stuka Ju-87s
had very small bomb capacities and
were only designed for ground
support of Panzer divisions.
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Plainly Germany had no intention of strategic bombing of cities.
Germany’s heaviest bomber did not even have the capacity to carry 10%
the payload of bombs that a British Lancaster was designed for.
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The earliest British air raids on Germany were
quite disappointing for Bomber Command.
On 4th September 1939, the day after Britain declared
war on Germany,
an RAF attack on a German sea plane base
resulted in 24 out of the 28 British bombers being shot down.
The survivors managed to drop a few bombs, by mistake,
on the Danish town of Esbjerg. This was 190 km from the target!
Air raids on German warships in Wilhelmshaven
were also ineffective.
The few bombs that hit their targets either did not explode,
or bounced off the German armour causing no damage at all.
The early casualties suffered by the British bombers were extreme. Two
air raids on oil installations in the Ruhr, by over 300 British bombers
achieved no hits and no damage to the plants.
Photographic evidence on the RAF bombing raids on the industrial Ruhr
in Germany revealed that less than 10% of British bombers got within
five miles of their target and that the bombs dropped by these aircraft
were dispersed in an area 75 square miles around the intended target.
and that the bombs dropped by these aircraft were dispersed
in an area 75 square miles around the intended target.
During the air raids of 1940 and 1941, more British
air crew died than German victims of the bombings.
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The German battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau
at Brest were attacked by 1,723 sorties.
Almost 2,000 tonnes of bombs were dropped on these ships,
yet the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau survived these air raids,
mostly unscathed.
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RAF Bomber Command received more funding,
labour, strategic materials and equipment than
all other branches of the British military combined.
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The labour of thousands of workers in factories all over Britain
was being scattered across Germany
to no good purpose.
Raw materials that
could have been
better used to build
tanks, ground support
aircraft, fighters, dive
bombers, machine
guns, rifles, medical
supplies, etc. were
being squandered to
fulfill an obsession
with the bomber as
the war-winning
weapon to beat all
weapons.
Yet, far from winning the war, the Bomber almost lost it
by absorbing the resources that could have been used
to equip Britain
with genuine weapons of war.
Instead of recognising that the Strategic Bombing Campaign was a
failure, the chiefs of staff determined to concentrate on the bombing of
cities. A policy of terrorising the German population became a
fundamental component of the Strategic Bombing Campaign of the RAF.
Recognising that navigational aids were deficient and that the
bomb sights used were highly inaccurate, Bomber Command
determined to concentrate entire Air Wings into
Thousand Bomber Raids on German cities.
These night time saturation bombings wouldn’t be able to
miss their targets, because they would concentrate
on the centre of large cities.
Killing Germans, any Germans, became the
policy of Bomber Command.
Between 1940 and 1945, 61 German cities were destroyed
in bombing campaigns by RAF Bomber Command.
At least two million Germans civilians were killed by the
air raids of the RAF and USAAF.
Indiscriminate bombing was internationally outlawed.
The Washington Treaty of 1922 expressly forbade the use of bombing
against civilian populations.
United States
government
propaganda films
condemned the
Japanese Empire for
bombing of cities,
such as Shanghai.
Yet upon America’s entry into the war, US General, H. H. Arnold,
advocated the policy of strategic bombing of cities
as the only way that Germany could be beaten.
Winston Churchill commented: The air opened paths along which death
and terror could be carried far behind the lines of the actual enemy;
to women, children, the aged, the sick, who in earlier struggles
would perforce have been left untouched.
Air Ministry historian, Dennis Richards, in the official History of the Royal
Air Force (1939-1945) wrote: If the Royal Air Force raided the Ruhr,
destroying oil plants with its most accurately placed bombs, and urban
property for those that went astray, the outcry for retaliation against
Britain might prove too strong for the German Generals to resist.
Indeed, Hitler himself would probably lead the clamour. The attack on
the Ruhr was therefore an informal invitation to the Luftwaffe
to bomb London.
The Principal Secretary to the Air Ministry in Britain reported:
We began to bomb objectives on German mainland before the Germans
began to bomb objectives on the British mainland…
…Because we were
doubtful about the
psychological
effect of the truth,
that it was we
who started the
strategic bombing
offensive, we have
shrunk from giving
our great decision
of May 11, 1940,
the publicity it
deserves.
(Bombing
Vindicated by J. M.
Spaight, Principal
Secretary to the Air
Ministry.)
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In an interview with the New York Times, 10 January 1946,
Air Marshall Tedder declared that Germany had lost the war because
she had not followed the principle of Total Warfare.
Dennis Richards in The Royal Air Force, 1939-1945, The Fight at Odds
observed: Retaliation was certain if we carried the war
into Germany…
there was a reasonable possibility that our capital and industrial centres
would not have been attacked if we had continued
to refrain from attacking those of Germany…
the primary purpose of these raids was to goad the Germans into
undertaking reprisal raids of a similar character on Britain.
Such raids would
arouse intense
indignation in Britain
against Germany and
so create a war
psychosis without
which it would be
impossible to carry on
a modern war.
British Jurist, F. J. P. Veale, in Advance to Barbarism, observed: It is one
of the greatest triumphs of modern emotional engineering that, in spite
of the plain facts of the case, which could never be disguised,
or even materially distorted,
the British public, throughout the Blitz period (1940-1941), remained
convinced that the entire responsibility for the sufferings it was
undergoing, rested on the German leaders.
Too high praise cannot, therefore, be lavished on the British emotional
engineers for the infinite skill with which the public mind was
conditioned prior to, and during, a period of unparalleled strain.
The inhabitants of Coventry, for example, continued to imagine that
their sufferings were due to the innate villainy of Adolf Hitler, without a
suspicion that a decision, splendid or otherwise, of the
British War Cabinet, was the decisive factor in this case.
Sir Archibald Sinclair, Secretary for Air, declared: I am in full agreement
of terror bombing. I am all for the bombing of working class areas
in German cities.
On 5 July 1941, the city of Munster in Germany was bombed
by 63 British Wellington Bombers, just after midnight. The city
was unprepared, and without any anti-aircraft protection.
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By the end of the war more than 90% of the old city
of Munster was destroyed.
On the night of 28 March 1942, 234 Wellington and Sterling
Bombers dropped over 400 tonnes of bombs on Lubeck
1,468 buildings were destroyed, 2,180 were seriously
damaged and 9,103 were lightly damaged. 62% of all
buildings in Lubeck were damaged or destroyed.
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On the night of 30 May 1942, Cologne was destroyed
by RAF Bomber Command..
2,000 tonnes of high explosives were delivered
by 1,046 bombers in 90 minutes.
Luftwaffe Commander, Herman Goring, refused to believe the reports:
It’s impossible! That many bombs cannot be dropped in a single night!
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On 25 June 1942, the British launched 1,067 bombers against the
German port city of Bremen. This air raid succeeded in killing 85 people,
destroying 572 houses, for the loss of 53 aircraft.
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Because the Luftwaffe was not equipped with strategic bombers, the
contrast between casualties caused by the Blitz in England and the
saturation bombing of German cities is stark.
Coventry lost 100 acres through bombing. Approximately 300 people in
Coventry lost their lives due to air raids by the Luftwaffe. Yet the RAF
bombing of Hamburg killed over 70,000 civilians.
Between 24 July and 2 August 1943, RAF Bomber Command unleashed
Operation Gomorrah against the coastal town of Hamburg in Germany.
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Lead Bombers dropped parachute flare markers to guide the following
bombers as to where to release their bombs in the dark.
8,000 pound blockbusters and 4,000 pound cookie bombs
knocked out roofs and windows.
Subsequent waves dropped 350,412 incendiary bombs to start fires.
Crews of Halifax Bombers reported a mass of raging fires in Hamburg,
rising to 19,000 feet.
As the waterworks were destroyed first, there was no running water
with which the fire brigade could extinguish the sea of flames, which
soon engulfed the entire city.
The next day, 25 July, US Army Air Force B17 Flying Fortress Bombers
unleashed further destruction upon the stricken city of Hamburg.
The British lost only 12 aircraft during the night raid.
The Americans lost 15 aircraft during their day raid. For 10 days and
nights, the RAF and USAAF kept up a relentless day and night
bombardment of the doomed city. 16,000 residential buildings
in Hamburg were destroyed.
Incredibly, by the end of 1943, the aircraft industry, chemical industry
and submarine building factories were back
to almost pre-bombing capacity. However,
70,000 civilians had died in the 10 day fire bombing of Hamburg.
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Between 13 and 15 February 1945, the city of Dresden was destroyed
by over 2,000 bombers of the RAF and the USAAF. Dresden had been
chosen as a target by the Soviets.
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Joseph Stalin persuaded Churchill and Roosevelt at Yalta to target
Dresden, which was a major receiving area for refugees fleeing the
Soviet advance on the Eastern front.
The city was swollen with civilians fleeing the Red Army’s rapid
and destructive advance.
On the evening of 13 February 1945, 796 Lancaster’s and 9 DeHaviland
Mosquitos dropped 1,478 tonnes of high explosive and 1,182 tonnes of
incendiary bombs between 22:14 and 22:22. Three hours later another
1,800 tonnes of bombs were dropped by a second group of Lancasters.
The first official reports on the air raid on Dresden described it as one of
the most successful of the Thousand Bomber Raids: Our pilots report
that as there was little flack they were able to make careful and straight
runs over the targets without bothering much about their defences; a
terrific concentration of fires were started in the centre of the city.
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The British described the raid as one of the powerful blows promised by
the Allied leaders to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin at Yalta.
Allied Bombers who were involved in the fire bombing of Dresden later
recalled the sense of shame they felt when no anti-aircraft fire,
or night fighters, opposed their bombing of the city.
Numerous historians and jurists have described the bombing of the
cities of Germany as a war crime and a holocaust.
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Yet British
Air Marshal
“Bomber” Arthur
Harris,
the Bomber
Command chief
directly
responsible for
the saturation
bombing of
civilian centres,
was knighted for
his efforts!
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News reports from neutral countries, such as Sweden and Switzerland,
pointed out that Dresden was one large hospital city swollen with
refugees fleeing the advancing Red Army.
They also pointed out that the main railway station on the outskirts of
town was unaffected by the bombing which targeted the residential
section of town. 22 Hospitals had been destroyed in Dresden.
One British commentator asked: Who the devil is going to get anything
out of it? We contribute the bombs and the machines
and the crews who don’t return from these raids,
the Dresdeners themselves don’t get anything out of it, naturally.
The only ones who look like they’re getting anything are the Russians –
they get Dresden at our expense. I don’t see any reason why we should
go and kill people for the benefit of the Russians alone. Do you?
An Associated Press radio despatch put out from Paris was broadcast
throughout the United States describing the: Deliberate Terror
Bombings of German population centres…
carried out by heavy bombers of the Allied Air Forces on residential
sections of Berlin, Dresden… with the unprecedented day and
night assault on the refugee crowded capital, with civilians
fleeing from the Red Tide in the East.
Americans had traditionally viewed with suspicion the RAF Bomber
Command strategy of bombing cities. Now Americans learned that
American Bombers were involved in the same terror raids on civilians.
The report noted that, as all available German air forces were
concentrated on the Eastern Front to combat the Red Army offensive
which threatened to destroy Germany and all of Europe, the targeting of
civilian centres in Germany seemed exceptional cowardice.
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As this AP News Report was widely broadcast by radio throughout the
United States, General Eisenhower and General Henry Arnold
cabled General Spaatz,
to clarify that the USAAF was only targeting military
objectives and not engaging in area bombing of cities.
General Carl Spaatz gave an ambiguous and dishonest assurance that
the USAAF only attacked military objectives. This of course was not true.
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American Historian
Professor Harry Elmur
Barnes, wrote:
It was the indiscriminate
bombing of civilians by
the so-called strategic air
forces during the Second
World War which
culminated in the
destruction of Dresden
(a wholly non-military
objective) in February
1945,
that completely pulverised the code of civilised warfare and returned the
treatment of military opponents and civilians to the level of the
primary warfare that had prevailed among the savages,
the Assyrians and the Medieval Mongols.
On the basis of the most authoritative British sources, Mr Veale
demonstrates clearly that it was the British and not the Germans who
introduced indiscriminate strategic bombing, despite the efforts of Hitler
to avert this reversion to barbaric practices.
The German town of Kassel suffered over 300 air raids, some by
Thousand Bomber Raids, the British by night and the Americans by day.
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When on 4 April 1945, the city surrendered barely 15,000 remained of
an original population of 250,000.
Wiener Nuestadt in Austria emerged from the air raids with only 18
houses intact and its population of 45,000 reduced to just 860.
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The London Times
Review on the British
official History of the
Strategic Air Offensive,
commented: One
closes these volumes
feeling uneasy, that
the true heroes of the
story they tell are
neither the
contending Air
Marshalls, nor even
the 58,888 officers
and men of Bomber
Command who were
killed in action.
The heroes were the inhabitants of the German cities under attack;
the men, women and children who stoically endured and worked on
among the flaming ruins of their homes and factories,
up till the moment when the Allied Armies overran them.
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In the course of watching a British propaganda film showing the
bombing of German cities from the air, British Prime Minister Winston
Churchill suddenly sat bolt upright and asked Lord Casey:
Are we beasts? Are we taking this too far?
Throughout the world there were shockwaves of
revulsion against the bombing of Dresden.
This compelled the propaganda ministries to seek to generate as much
counter accusations of atrocities against the enemy to justify the
targeting of whole cities for destruction.
Soon, pictures of starving inmates of labour camps were being
published widely.
The fact that the starvation was caused by the Naval Blockade and
Arial Bombardment of Germany was,
of course, not pointed out.
As virtually every harbour, railway junction and bridge in Germany
had been bombed, all basic services had broken down
in the final months of the war, starvation was widespread
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and epidemics of typhus had erupted.
Even pictures of German civilians laid out in the centre of bombed out
towns were published with the caption that these were
victims of German death camps.
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American soldiers in Dachau had German civilians drag victims of typhus
into the showers,
which the Americans then claimed had been gas chambers.
Later all parties agreed that there never had been a gas chamber at
Dachau and the Americans were ordered to dismantle the structure
they had built after the war to show tourists.
By then virtually all the prison wardens at Dachau had been massacred
by the American forces for the crime
which they now admitted had not taken place there.
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The American judge at the Nuremberg Trials, Nicholas Biddle, later
acknowledged that: Germany waged a much cleaner war than we did.
Winston Churchill acknowledged that had Germany won the war
he could have been tried as a war criminal
for having authorised the bombing of cities.
Marshall of the RAF, Lord
Trenchard, once declared:
I can’t write what I mean,
I can’t say what I mean,
but I expect you
to know
what I mean.
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The official historian of the Strategic Air Offensive, Sir Charles Webster,
noted that half of the bomber sorties made over Germany
were a complete waste of time.
The weapon with which most British bombers were armed, the general
purpose bomb, was so unreliable and ineffective as to constitute a
waste of strategic resources: Between 1939 and 1945, Bomber
Command dropped over half a million 500 pound general purpose
bombs and nearly 150,000 250 pound general purpose bombs.
Not only were these bombs unsuited to the task for which they were
used, because of their general characteristics, which consisted of an
unhappy compromise between strength of casing and weight of
explosive, but they also relatively inefficient,
and all too often defective, weapons.
It is estimated that nearly 40% of all bombs dropped by the British in
1940, failed to detonate. Even the 4,000 pound bombs frequently broke
up on impact, without exploding.
It was observed that Bomber Command wasted thousands of air crew
who lost their lives carrying defective bombs to Germany.
This was described as bad as sending men into battle with their rifles
loaded with blanks.
It is now clear that General Douhet and Trenchard were wrong.
Bombers did not win the war.
In fact, one can safely say
that not only did the
bombing of cities not
shorten the duration of
the war, but the Strategic
Bombing Campaign
actually prolonged the
war and exponentially
increased the death toll
of that war.
Unwilling to face the German soldier on the battlefield,
these strategists were prepared to drop bombs on his family
from a safe height of over 10,000 feet.
This indirect way of winning a war proved to be an illusion. Over two
million people were killed and millions more injured and crippled as a
result. The strategic bombing of cities proved to be not only unethical,
but counterproductive.
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This astonishing statistic is
the result of decades of
research, by political
science Professor R.J.
Rummel of the University of
Hawaii. Prof. Rummel’s
shocking research is
presented in the 500 page
book: Death By
Government (2006,
Transaction Publishers,
New Branswick, NJ).
Yet, very few books have
dealt with the overall
human cost of “death by
government” (The Black
Book of Communism
being one exception).
REFORMATION SOCIETY
PO Box 74
Newlands, 7725
Cape Town
South Africa
E-mail: info@ReformationSA.org
Web: www.ReformationSA.org

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The Bombing of Cities in WW II

  • 1. by Dr. Peter Hammond
  • 3. THE IMPORTANCE OF HISTORY History tells us what has worked, and what has not. We need to develop the ability to recognise these lessons in every area of life.
  • 4. “The longer you look back, the further you can look forward.” Winston Churchill.
  • 5. “If we don’t know our own history, we will simply have to endure all the same mistakes, sacrifices and absurdities all over again.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
  • 6. “Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.”George Santayana.
  • 7. “To be ignorant of what has happened before you were born is to remain a child forever.” Cicero
  • 8. “It is not the remembered, but the forgotten, past that enslaves us.” C.S. Lewis
  • 9. “History is, and must ever continue to be, next to God’s Word, the richest foundation of wisdom, and the surest guide to all successful practical activity.” Philip Schaff
  • 10. “Histories are a true school for learning how to order our lives.” John Calvin
  • 11. “Now these things occurred as examples, to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things…” 1 Corinthians 10:6
  • 13. by Dr. Peter Hammond
  • 14. Eminent British War historian, Captain Sir Basil Liddle Hart, described the strategic bombing campaign by RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War as: The most uncivilised means of warfare that the world had known since the Mongol invasions.
  • 15. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain declared that England’s policy of bombing cities in Germany: was absolutely contrary to international law.
  • 16. Just before being ousted in Winston Churchill’s coup, Prime Minister Chamberlain announced: His Majesty’s government will never resort to the deliberate attack on women and children and other civilians, for the purpose of mere terrorism.
  • 17. Shortly after replacing Chamberlain as Prime Minister, Winston Churchill declared: Our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery in the air… the bombers alone can provide the means to victory.
  • 18. Marshall of the Royal Air Force, Lord Trenchard, as early as 1921, declared that: The next war could be won by bombing alone, by destroying the enemy’s will to resist.
  • 19. From this perspective, an entire strategic philosophy developed, which was to dominate British, and later American, military strategy.
  • 20. It was the Italian General Gilulo Douhet, who predicted that in the next war, bombers would inflict millions of civillian casualties in a matter of days.
  • 22. Stanley Baldwin described this new military philosophy in the House of Commons: The only defence is offence, which means that you have to kill more women and children, more quickly than the enemy, if you want to save yourselves.
  • 23. Although aircraft was only invented in 1903, and first used militarily in the First World War (1914 – 1918), books and films had developed a public dread of aerial bombing out of all proportion to its actual threat.
  • 24. Inspired more by the science fiction novels of H. G. Wells, and Alexander Korda’s film, Things to Come, Royal Air Force experts declared, as an article of faith, that: the bomber will always get through !
  • 25. Strangely, these men failed to anticipate that technical developments in one area of warfare are soon matched by counter measures in other areas. Aircraft had advanced rapidly in WWI.
  • 26. Just as gas warfare was soon countered by gas masks.
  • 28. Night bombers would soon be countered by night fighters.
  • 29. Yet many British politicians and military leaders leapt upon this philosophy of faint hearts.
  • 30. After the disastrous battles of WWI, with entire divisions decimated in the battle of the Somme, Passchendaele and Ypres
  • 31. the British feared to face the German soldier on the battlefield and sought for an indirect way of winning a war.
  • 32. Instead of losing hundreds-of-thousands of soldiers facing the German Army on the ground,
  • 33. they would drop millions of tonnes of bombs on German cities from a safe height of ten thousand feet or more.
  • 34. British military strategists concluded that what had actually won the First World War was the British Naval blockade, which had led to starvation conditions in Germany.
  • 36. It became an article of faith amongst the chiefs of staff that the bombing of German cities would achieve victory in the war without the need to commit their armies to the kind of ground war that had caused so many casualties on the Western front in 1914 to 1918.
  • 37. Underlying this philosophy was the assumption that German civilians would crack under the pressure of sustained bombing. Actually, despite enduring the most sustained aerial bombardment ,for over five years, they never did crack.
  • 38. In fact war production steadily increased.
  • 41. When, during the Spanish Civil War, the nationalists bombed Barcelona, in 1938, reportedly 1,300 inhabitants were killed.
  • 42. From this British aerial experts concluded that each tonne of bombs dropped would inflict 72 casualties.
  • 43. {In fact the casualty rates at Barcelona were barely 3 casualties to every tonne of bombs dropped.} But this figure was treated as definitive and
  • 44. on this basis, the Home Office predicted one million casualties in London in the first few days of the next war. But this alarmist nonsense had no basis in fact.
  • 45. Of the half a million killed in the entire Spanish War, less than 3% were killed by air raids. However, as those facts did not support Bomber Commands’ philosophy, they were suppressed at the time.
  • 46. The fact that the German Luftwaffe had no four engine bombers, nor any plans to produce any in the future, was also suppressed. The entire German Luftwaffe was plainly geared to ground support of the Wehrmacht.
  • 47. The Heinkel 111 and Stuka Ju-87s had very small bomb capacities and were only designed for ground support of Panzer divisions.
  • 49. Plainly Germany had no intention of strategic bombing of cities.
  • 50. Germany’s heaviest bomber did not even have the capacity to carry 10% the payload of bombs that a British Lancaster was designed for.
  • 55. The earliest British air raids on Germany were quite disappointing for Bomber Command.
  • 56. On 4th September 1939, the day after Britain declared war on Germany,
  • 57. an RAF attack on a German sea plane base
  • 58. resulted in 24 out of the 28 British bombers being shot down.
  • 59. The survivors managed to drop a few bombs, by mistake, on the Danish town of Esbjerg. This was 190 km from the target!
  • 60. Air raids on German warships in Wilhelmshaven were also ineffective.
  • 61. The few bombs that hit their targets either did not explode, or bounced off the German armour causing no damage at all.
  • 62. The early casualties suffered by the British bombers were extreme. Two air raids on oil installations in the Ruhr, by over 300 British bombers achieved no hits and no damage to the plants.
  • 63. Photographic evidence on the RAF bombing raids on the industrial Ruhr in Germany revealed that less than 10% of British bombers got within five miles of their target and that the bombs dropped by these aircraft were dispersed in an area 75 square miles around the intended target.
  • 64. and that the bombs dropped by these aircraft were dispersed in an area 75 square miles around the intended target.
  • 65. During the air raids of 1940 and 1941, more British air crew died than German victims of the bombings.
  • 67. The German battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau at Brest were attacked by 1,723 sorties.
  • 68. Almost 2,000 tonnes of bombs were dropped on these ships,
  • 69. yet the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau survived these air raids, mostly unscathed.
  • 71. RAF Bomber Command received more funding, labour, strategic materials and equipment than all other branches of the British military combined.
  • 73. The labour of thousands of workers in factories all over Britain
  • 74. was being scattered across Germany to no good purpose.
  • 75. Raw materials that could have been better used to build tanks, ground support aircraft, fighters, dive bombers, machine guns, rifles, medical supplies, etc. were being squandered to fulfill an obsession with the bomber as the war-winning weapon to beat all weapons.
  • 76. Yet, far from winning the war, the Bomber almost lost it by absorbing the resources that could have been used to equip Britain with genuine weapons of war.
  • 77. Instead of recognising that the Strategic Bombing Campaign was a failure, the chiefs of staff determined to concentrate on the bombing of cities. A policy of terrorising the German population became a fundamental component of the Strategic Bombing Campaign of the RAF.
  • 78. Recognising that navigational aids were deficient and that the bomb sights used were highly inaccurate, Bomber Command determined to concentrate entire Air Wings into Thousand Bomber Raids on German cities.
  • 79. These night time saturation bombings wouldn’t be able to miss their targets, because they would concentrate on the centre of large cities.
  • 80. Killing Germans, any Germans, became the policy of Bomber Command.
  • 81. Between 1940 and 1945, 61 German cities were destroyed in bombing campaigns by RAF Bomber Command.
  • 82. At least two million Germans civilians were killed by the air raids of the RAF and USAAF.
  • 83. Indiscriminate bombing was internationally outlawed. The Washington Treaty of 1922 expressly forbade the use of bombing against civilian populations.
  • 84. United States government propaganda films condemned the Japanese Empire for bombing of cities, such as Shanghai.
  • 85. Yet upon America’s entry into the war, US General, H. H. Arnold, advocated the policy of strategic bombing of cities as the only way that Germany could be beaten.
  • 86. Winston Churchill commented: The air opened paths along which death and terror could be carried far behind the lines of the actual enemy; to women, children, the aged, the sick, who in earlier struggles would perforce have been left untouched.
  • 87. Air Ministry historian, Dennis Richards, in the official History of the Royal Air Force (1939-1945) wrote: If the Royal Air Force raided the Ruhr, destroying oil plants with its most accurately placed bombs, and urban property for those that went astray, the outcry for retaliation against Britain might prove too strong for the German Generals to resist.
  • 88. Indeed, Hitler himself would probably lead the clamour. The attack on the Ruhr was therefore an informal invitation to the Luftwaffe to bomb London.
  • 89. The Principal Secretary to the Air Ministry in Britain reported: We began to bomb objectives on German mainland before the Germans began to bomb objectives on the British mainland…
  • 90. …Because we were doubtful about the psychological effect of the truth, that it was we who started the strategic bombing offensive, we have shrunk from giving our great decision of May 11, 1940, the publicity it deserves. (Bombing Vindicated by J. M. Spaight, Principal Secretary to the Air Ministry.)
  • 93. In an interview with the New York Times, 10 January 1946, Air Marshall Tedder declared that Germany had lost the war because she had not followed the principle of Total Warfare.
  • 94. Dennis Richards in The Royal Air Force, 1939-1945, The Fight at Odds observed: Retaliation was certain if we carried the war into Germany…
  • 95. there was a reasonable possibility that our capital and industrial centres would not have been attacked if we had continued to refrain from attacking those of Germany…
  • 96. the primary purpose of these raids was to goad the Germans into undertaking reprisal raids of a similar character on Britain.
  • 97. Such raids would arouse intense indignation in Britain against Germany and so create a war psychosis without which it would be impossible to carry on a modern war.
  • 98. British Jurist, F. J. P. Veale, in Advance to Barbarism, observed: It is one of the greatest triumphs of modern emotional engineering that, in spite of the plain facts of the case, which could never be disguised, or even materially distorted,
  • 99. the British public, throughout the Blitz period (1940-1941), remained convinced that the entire responsibility for the sufferings it was undergoing, rested on the German leaders.
  • 100. Too high praise cannot, therefore, be lavished on the British emotional engineers for the infinite skill with which the public mind was conditioned prior to, and during, a period of unparalleled strain.
  • 101. The inhabitants of Coventry, for example, continued to imagine that their sufferings were due to the innate villainy of Adolf Hitler, without a suspicion that a decision, splendid or otherwise, of the British War Cabinet, was the decisive factor in this case.
  • 102. Sir Archibald Sinclair, Secretary for Air, declared: I am in full agreement of terror bombing. I am all for the bombing of working class areas in German cities.
  • 103. On 5 July 1941, the city of Munster in Germany was bombed by 63 British Wellington Bombers, just after midnight. The city was unprepared, and without any anti-aircraft protection.
  • 105. By the end of the war more than 90% of the old city of Munster was destroyed.
  • 106. On the night of 28 March 1942, 234 Wellington and Sterling Bombers dropped over 400 tonnes of bombs on Lubeck
  • 107. 1,468 buildings were destroyed, 2,180 were seriously damaged and 9,103 were lightly damaged. 62% of all buildings in Lubeck were damaged or destroyed.
  • 110. On the night of 30 May 1942, Cologne was destroyed by RAF Bomber Command..
  • 111. 2,000 tonnes of high explosives were delivered by 1,046 bombers in 90 minutes.
  • 112. Luftwaffe Commander, Herman Goring, refused to believe the reports: It’s impossible! That many bombs cannot be dropped in a single night!
  • 116. On 25 June 1942, the British launched 1,067 bombers against the German port city of Bremen. This air raid succeeded in killing 85 people, destroying 572 houses, for the loss of 53 aircraft.
  • 121. Because the Luftwaffe was not equipped with strategic bombers, the contrast between casualties caused by the Blitz in England and the saturation bombing of German cities is stark.
  • 122. Coventry lost 100 acres through bombing. Approximately 300 people in Coventry lost their lives due to air raids by the Luftwaffe. Yet the RAF bombing of Hamburg killed over 70,000 civilians.
  • 123. Between 24 July and 2 August 1943, RAF Bomber Command unleashed Operation Gomorrah against the coastal town of Hamburg in Germany.
  • 125. Lead Bombers dropped parachute flare markers to guide the following bombers as to where to release their bombs in the dark.
  • 126. 8,000 pound blockbusters and 4,000 pound cookie bombs knocked out roofs and windows.
  • 127. Subsequent waves dropped 350,412 incendiary bombs to start fires. Crews of Halifax Bombers reported a mass of raging fires in Hamburg, rising to 19,000 feet.
  • 128. As the waterworks were destroyed first, there was no running water with which the fire brigade could extinguish the sea of flames, which soon engulfed the entire city.
  • 129. The next day, 25 July, US Army Air Force B17 Flying Fortress Bombers unleashed further destruction upon the stricken city of Hamburg. The British lost only 12 aircraft during the night raid.
  • 130. The Americans lost 15 aircraft during their day raid. For 10 days and nights, the RAF and USAAF kept up a relentless day and night bombardment of the doomed city. 16,000 residential buildings in Hamburg were destroyed.
  • 131. Incredibly, by the end of 1943, the aircraft industry, chemical industry and submarine building factories were back to almost pre-bombing capacity. However, 70,000 civilians had died in the 10 day fire bombing of Hamburg.
  • 147. Between 13 and 15 February 1945, the city of Dresden was destroyed by over 2,000 bombers of the RAF and the USAAF. Dresden had been chosen as a target by the Soviets.
  • 149. Joseph Stalin persuaded Churchill and Roosevelt at Yalta to target Dresden, which was a major receiving area for refugees fleeing the Soviet advance on the Eastern front.
  • 150. The city was swollen with civilians fleeing the Red Army’s rapid and destructive advance.
  • 151. On the evening of 13 February 1945, 796 Lancaster’s and 9 DeHaviland Mosquitos dropped 1,478 tonnes of high explosive and 1,182 tonnes of incendiary bombs between 22:14 and 22:22. Three hours later another 1,800 tonnes of bombs were dropped by a second group of Lancasters.
  • 152. The first official reports on the air raid on Dresden described it as one of the most successful of the Thousand Bomber Raids: Our pilots report that as there was little flack they were able to make careful and straight runs over the targets without bothering much about their defences; a terrific concentration of fires were started in the centre of the city.
  • 154. The British described the raid as one of the powerful blows promised by the Allied leaders to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin at Yalta.
  • 155. Allied Bombers who were involved in the fire bombing of Dresden later recalled the sense of shame they felt when no anti-aircraft fire, or night fighters, opposed their bombing of the city.
  • 156. Numerous historians and jurists have described the bombing of the cities of Germany as a war crime and a holocaust.
  • 158. Yet British Air Marshal “Bomber” Arthur Harris, the Bomber Command chief directly responsible for the saturation bombing of civilian centres, was knighted for his efforts!
  • 161. News reports from neutral countries, such as Sweden and Switzerland, pointed out that Dresden was one large hospital city swollen with refugees fleeing the advancing Red Army.
  • 162. They also pointed out that the main railway station on the outskirts of town was unaffected by the bombing which targeted the residential section of town. 22 Hospitals had been destroyed in Dresden.
  • 163. One British commentator asked: Who the devil is going to get anything out of it? We contribute the bombs and the machines and the crews who don’t return from these raids, the Dresdeners themselves don’t get anything out of it, naturally.
  • 164. The only ones who look like they’re getting anything are the Russians – they get Dresden at our expense. I don’t see any reason why we should go and kill people for the benefit of the Russians alone. Do you?
  • 165. An Associated Press radio despatch put out from Paris was broadcast throughout the United States describing the: Deliberate Terror Bombings of German population centres…
  • 166. carried out by heavy bombers of the Allied Air Forces on residential sections of Berlin, Dresden… with the unprecedented day and night assault on the refugee crowded capital, with civilians fleeing from the Red Tide in the East.
  • 167. Americans had traditionally viewed with suspicion the RAF Bomber Command strategy of bombing cities. Now Americans learned that American Bombers were involved in the same terror raids on civilians.
  • 168. The report noted that, as all available German air forces were concentrated on the Eastern Front to combat the Red Army offensive which threatened to destroy Germany and all of Europe, the targeting of civilian centres in Germany seemed exceptional cowardice.
  • 173. As this AP News Report was widely broadcast by radio throughout the United States, General Eisenhower and General Henry Arnold cabled General Spaatz,
  • 174. to clarify that the USAAF was only targeting military objectives and not engaging in area bombing of cities.
  • 175. General Carl Spaatz gave an ambiguous and dishonest assurance that the USAAF only attacked military objectives. This of course was not true.
  • 179. American Historian Professor Harry Elmur Barnes, wrote: It was the indiscriminate bombing of civilians by the so-called strategic air forces during the Second World War which culminated in the destruction of Dresden (a wholly non-military objective) in February 1945,
  • 180. that completely pulverised the code of civilised warfare and returned the treatment of military opponents and civilians to the level of the primary warfare that had prevailed among the savages, the Assyrians and the Medieval Mongols.
  • 181. On the basis of the most authoritative British sources, Mr Veale demonstrates clearly that it was the British and not the Germans who introduced indiscriminate strategic bombing, despite the efforts of Hitler to avert this reversion to barbaric practices.
  • 182. The German town of Kassel suffered over 300 air raids, some by Thousand Bomber Raids, the British by night and the Americans by day.
  • 184. When on 4 April 1945, the city surrendered barely 15,000 remained of an original population of 250,000.
  • 185. Wiener Nuestadt in Austria emerged from the air raids with only 18 houses intact and its population of 45,000 reduced to just 860.
  • 187. The London Times Review on the British official History of the Strategic Air Offensive, commented: One closes these volumes feeling uneasy, that the true heroes of the story they tell are neither the contending Air Marshalls, nor even the 58,888 officers and men of Bomber Command who were killed in action.
  • 188. The heroes were the inhabitants of the German cities under attack; the men, women and children who stoically endured and worked on among the flaming ruins of their homes and factories, up till the moment when the Allied Armies overran them.
  • 190. In the course of watching a British propaganda film showing the bombing of German cities from the air, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill suddenly sat bolt upright and asked Lord Casey:
  • 191. Are we beasts? Are we taking this too far?
  • 192. Throughout the world there were shockwaves of revulsion against the bombing of Dresden.
  • 193. This compelled the propaganda ministries to seek to generate as much counter accusations of atrocities against the enemy to justify the targeting of whole cities for destruction.
  • 194. Soon, pictures of starving inmates of labour camps were being published widely.
  • 195. The fact that the starvation was caused by the Naval Blockade and Arial Bombardment of Germany was, of course, not pointed out.
  • 196. As virtually every harbour, railway junction and bridge in Germany had been bombed, all basic services had broken down in the final months of the war, starvation was widespread
  • 201. and epidemics of typhus had erupted.
  • 202. Even pictures of German civilians laid out in the centre of bombed out towns were published with the caption that these were victims of German death camps.
  • 205. American soldiers in Dachau had German civilians drag victims of typhus into the showers, which the Americans then claimed had been gas chambers.
  • 206. Later all parties agreed that there never had been a gas chamber at Dachau and the Americans were ordered to dismantle the structure they had built after the war to show tourists.
  • 207. By then virtually all the prison wardens at Dachau had been massacred by the American forces for the crime which they now admitted had not taken place there.
  • 210. The American judge at the Nuremberg Trials, Nicholas Biddle, later acknowledged that: Germany waged a much cleaner war than we did.
  • 211. Winston Churchill acknowledged that had Germany won the war he could have been tried as a war criminal for having authorised the bombing of cities.
  • 212. Marshall of the RAF, Lord Trenchard, once declared: I can’t write what I mean, I can’t say what I mean, but I expect you to know what I mean.
  • 215. The official historian of the Strategic Air Offensive, Sir Charles Webster, noted that half of the bomber sorties made over Germany were a complete waste of time.
  • 216. The weapon with which most British bombers were armed, the general purpose bomb, was so unreliable and ineffective as to constitute a waste of strategic resources: Between 1939 and 1945, Bomber Command dropped over half a million 500 pound general purpose bombs and nearly 150,000 250 pound general purpose bombs.
  • 217. Not only were these bombs unsuited to the task for which they were used, because of their general characteristics, which consisted of an unhappy compromise between strength of casing and weight of explosive, but they also relatively inefficient, and all too often defective, weapons.
  • 218. It is estimated that nearly 40% of all bombs dropped by the British in 1940, failed to detonate. Even the 4,000 pound bombs frequently broke up on impact, without exploding.
  • 219. It was observed that Bomber Command wasted thousands of air crew who lost their lives carrying defective bombs to Germany. This was described as bad as sending men into battle with their rifles loaded with blanks.
  • 220. It is now clear that General Douhet and Trenchard were wrong. Bombers did not win the war.
  • 221. In fact, one can safely say that not only did the bombing of cities not shorten the duration of the war, but the Strategic Bombing Campaign actually prolonged the war and exponentially increased the death toll of that war.
  • 222. Unwilling to face the German soldier on the battlefield, these strategists were prepared to drop bombs on his family from a safe height of over 10,000 feet.
  • 223. This indirect way of winning a war proved to be an illusion. Over two million people were killed and millions more injured and crippled as a result. The strategic bombing of cities proved to be not only unethical, but counterproductive.
  • 260. This astonishing statistic is the result of decades of research, by political science Professor R.J. Rummel of the University of Hawaii. Prof. Rummel’s shocking research is presented in the 500 page book: Death By Government (2006, Transaction Publishers, New Branswick, NJ).
  • 261. Yet, very few books have dealt with the overall human cost of “death by government” (The Black Book of Communism being one exception).
  • 262. REFORMATION SOCIETY PO Box 74 Newlands, 7725 Cape Town South Africa E-mail: info@ReformationSA.org Web: www.ReformationSA.org

Notas del editor

  1. Barcelona bombingSavoia-Marchetti SM.81
  2. Scharnhorst
  3. Bombers on the assembly line
  4. Lancaster S for Sugar being made ready for a raid
  5. Bomber Command Operations 39-41
  6. Principal targets attacked by bomber command 1942 - 43
  7. Munster, Germany buildings reduced to rubble
  8. Lubeck
  9. the RAF launches a heavy incendiary attack (234 bombers) against Lübeck on the Baltic that devastates 265 acres of the old city
  10. Cologne – allied bombings WW2
  11. Bombing of Cologne
  12. Cologne
  13. Newspaper Headlines Los Angeles Examiner
  14. Bombing of Bremen
  15. News of raid on Bremen
  16. Hamburg oil refinery destroyed
  17. A bomb blast blew this locomotive into a crater. Allied attacks against rail traffic were given greater emphasis in the latter half of 1944.
  18. Berlin busters
  19. Bomb attack on Linz 1945
  20. Hamburg, 1946
  21. Duren 1946
  22. Darmstad
  23. Dresden
  24. Dresden
  25. Bombed Buildings of Dresden
  26. One of the Dresden bomber squads
  27. Dresden
  28. Dresden
  29. Article
  30. February 13 1945 Saturation bombing
  31. Factory bombed at Kassel
  32. The remains of German town of Wesel after intensive allied area bombing in 1945 (destruction rate 97% of all buildings)
  33. Marshaling yards in Germany continued to be daily targets for Allied fighter-bombers.
  34. Allied bombers destroyed this railroad bridge at Dillengen, Germany.
  35. Rhine river bridge collapsed
  36. Dachau
  37. Birkenau
  38. The photograph shows the bodies of six of the guards at the base of Tower B
  39. Lord Trenchard inspection September, 1930,
  40. Lord Trenchard
  41. B17-Flying-Fortress
  42. Tribute to pilots Franz Stigler and Charlie Brown