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Why was the Blitz controversial?

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  1. green slime

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    Guernica was hardly a "communications centre". It was a cross road.

    Rotterdam even though preceding negotiations resulted in a ceasefire, the bombardment took place nonetheless, in conditions which remain controversial, and destroyed almost the entire historic city centre, killing nearly 900 people and making 85,000 others homeless.

    Seriously, how many military targets were in that city cente? What were the threats the Germans were making?

    "We will destroy Utrecht if you Dutch do not Surrender..."
     
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    Dominic Selwood is a (mostly) fiction writer with as speciality the Middle Ages; what he is writing about WWII is pro nazi revisionism .
     
  3. Leif

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    Weilún had infantry and cavalry divisions in the area.

    The fact is that Churchill began civilian bombing, not Hitler.
     
  4. green slime

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    Wrong.

    As explained to you.
     
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  6. Leif

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    Churchill began civilian bombing in Iraq, Russia and Afghanistan.

    If the Axis had won Churchill and Arthur Harris would certainly have been hanged for inventing civilian bombing.
     
  7. green slime

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    Look up Frampol.


    Thank God the Axis powers lost.

    Hitler suicided, but only after utterly destroying Germany. Goebbels, and Göring also took the cowards' route. Even in death, the Nazis tried to perpetrate a lie.
     
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    Hitler destroyed colonialism forever. I hardly think he lost as he brought freedom to all the countries under European colonial rule.
     
  9. Leif

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    The British had already bombed Wilhelmshaven, Cuxhaven and Heligoland by 13 September 1939.
     
  10. green slime

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    Right..... or not.
     
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    Right. Or not.
     
  12. Leif

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    World War II destroyed the British Empire and turned the UK into an American satellite.
     
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    Right.... or not.
     
  14. Leif

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    Um, Suez?
     
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    Or not.
     
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    Why do people have issues with a blintz?
     
  17. RichTO90

    RichTO90 Well-Known Member

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    I'm surprised it took you all so long to realize you were just feeding a troll. The topic title and first post told me that.
     
  18. CAC

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    Didn't Gotha bombers hit English cities in WW1? this isn't new...
     
  19. Takao

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    Zeppelins too.
     
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    Well I'm happy to see George Bush not getting blamed for everything for once.
     

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