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So German politicians have called on Britain to abandon plans to build a memorial to RAF bomber crews.
Why are the British always being asked to apologise?
We lost 55,573 RAF bomber crew personal, in WW2, so it is deserving that a memorial is created in our capital, to remember these brave airmen who set out each night to fly the skies of Europe..
Yes 45,000 innocent German civilians lost their lives in Hamburg alone, and another 25,000 - 35,000 in Dresden during WW2, but 20,083 Londoners, plus 23,602 in other parts of Britain were killed in the Blitz itself.
This was war, and after all the Germans started bombing civilians..
So German politicians have called on Britain to abandon plans to build a memorial to RAF bomber crews.
Why are the British always being asked to apologise?
We lost 55,573 RAF bomber crew personal, in WW2, so it is deserving that a memorial is created in our capital, to remember these brave airmen who set out each night to fly the skies of Europe..
Yes 45,000 innocent German civilians lost their lives in Hamburg alone, and another 25,000 - 35,000 in Dresden during WW2, but 20,083 Londoners, plus 23,602 in other parts of Britain were killed in the Blitz itself.
This was war, and after all the Germans started bombing civilians..
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You have gone too far this time, you absolutely disgust me, and I am very surprised that no one else has took you to task for such a disgusting comparison.
To compare your own brave countrymen, who each night donned their flying suits and boots, to fly over Europe, many never to return, so that such as you can enjoy the freedom you now enjoy, to those sadistic homicidal killers of the SS.is beyond comprehension.
Perhaps given the choice you would most likely put on that dreaded black uniform, instead of air force blue.
You have gone too far this time, you absolutely disgust me, and I am very surprised that no one else has took you to task for such a disgusting comparison.
To compare your own brave countrymen, who each night donned their flying suits and boots, to fly over Europe, many never to return, so that such as you can enjoy the freedom you now enjoy, to those sadistic homicidal killers of the SS.is beyond comprehension.
Perhaps given the choice you would most likely put on that dreaded black uniform, instead of air force blue.
jno as to who started the "Terror Bombing" I suggest you as the people of the Spanish town of Guernica, on 26th April 1937 the Luftewaffe, masquarading as the Kondor Legion carpet bombed the town and killed a reported 1,654 people (though modern research put the true figure in the region of 3-400). Even then the German Armed Forces were practicing for a war against whoever got in their way and they weren't to bothered about the methods they used
yes, fair point, paddywak; the Germans certainly had some practice. All the same, it seems - and I'm open to correction here - that they decided not to pursue this strategy in WW2 until prompted to by Allied action.
The point was also made in the paper yesterday that Barcelona learnt from Guernica and built deep-level bomb shelters. London authorities did not, and merely dished out Andersen shelters.
The point was also made in the paper yesterday that Barcelona learnt from Guernica and built deep-level bomb shelters. London authorities did not, and merely dished out Andersen shelters.
To those who had to live through the war years it was terrible, I remember the warning sirens when the planes were coming over, and the then all-clear siren to tell us we could go back to bed. Those men and women of all the forces are remembered on Armistice Day in November, that to my mind includes the Bomber Command. They were all heroes no one less than the other.
Hey thanks for pointing out that the British were the baddies in the war jno, I wouldn't have known that. Not only did they drop bombs in a nastier way than the other people dropped bombs, but they also forced their own people to hide in flimsy metal boxes. Those Brits eh?
Which side was your country on in the war?
Which side was your country on in the war?
jno
They did not merely dish out Anderson shelters, as you so simply informed us.
They also provided indoor shelters (Morrison shelters), built Brick and concrete public shelters, Brick Reinforced the walls of peoples cellars, complete with escape hatches and steps leading out of the cellar grates, apart from providing free of charge gas masks.
None of these measures would be any protection against a direct hit, but they were protection in case the houses collapsed around the occupants, and the brick public shelters and Anderson shelters were protection against blast and flying debris.
Although at first the authorities dissuaded Londoners from using the Tube stations, due later to public pressure, they finally gave in.
They did not merely dish out Anderson shelters, as you so simply informed us.
They also provided indoor shelters (Morrison shelters), built Brick and concrete public shelters, Brick Reinforced the walls of peoples cellars, complete with escape hatches and steps leading out of the cellar grates, apart from providing free of charge gas masks.
None of these measures would be any protection against a direct hit, but they were protection in case the houses collapsed around the occupants, and the brick public shelters and Anderson shelters were protection against blast and flying debris.
Although at first the authorities dissuaded Londoners from using the Tube stations, due later to public pressure, they finally gave in.
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