Up until Churchill’s appointment as PM both Germany and Britain had stuck to a pledge not to attack targets in each other’s cities where civilians were at risk. Overy dismisses the long held belief "firmly rooted in the British public mind," that Hitler initiated the trend for indiscriminate bombings. He says the decision to take the gloves off was Churchill’s, "because of the crisis in the Battle of France, not because of German air raids over Britain." .
What was done to Dresden was fucking evil in so many ways. Intentionally targeting civilians to inflict the most amount of casualties and suffering. People reduced to grease. Fire tornadoes sucking children, elderly, anybody into them.
A good review of a thoughtful book. Chamberlain had always opposed the use of bombing against urban targets,’ writes Overy, ‘but Churchill had no conscientious or legal objections.’ - Churchill was a racist bigot who enjoyed mass murder and suffering
The same churchill that pushed Galipolli? The same churchill that refused release of the Aussies in No. Africa when the Japanese landed on New Guinea and began bombing of Australia?
The same one who caused famine in India who liked the idea of concentration camps against the Boers sent tanks into the streets of Glasgow, and generally despised anyone who was not English.
Ah yes. That one.
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