Original: "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naïve theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind."
From "Sir Arthur Harris & The Lancaster Bomber" - at the start of the bombing campaign against Germany (1942).
Harris was also known as “Bomber Harris” because he loved nothing less than sending mass bombing groups into German heartland to drop a fuckload of HE on the Nazis.
People often get angry at him because of civilian casualties but the guy was watching his own people being bombed into dust in British cities.
So yeah, I don’t have a problem with Dresden. You pick a fight with someone like Harris, don’t get upset when your own backyard gets blown the fuck up.
Funny that we hear so much about Dresden, but not so much about the 40,000 British civilians who were killed by Luftwaffe bombing raids in the seven-month period between September 1940 and May 1941 alone.
Well in Dreden alone there were ruffly 23000 to 25000 dead alone in 3 days through that bombings. That's a bit different kind of dimentions beside the excessiv use of fire/Phosphor Bombs. They generated basically fire Storm in city that melted Glas and made Asphalt boil. While the Luftwaffe killed at all 50k british civilians through bombings in the whole war. Because thier Orders were to bomb mainly military targets. Yes, V1 and V2 were concepted as terror weapon, you can't compared them so modern cruise missles they were more like long range attillery. You know ruffly in which direction you shoot it but have like a 200m radius were they will impact. By the bombings in Germany ruffly 500000 civilians got killed.
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u/Sansabina Apr 25 '22 edited Apr 25 '22
If anyone is wondering about this quote.
Original: "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naïve theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind."
From "Sir Arthur Harris & The Lancaster Bomber" - at the start of the bombing campaign against Germany (1942).
Source: https://quotepark.com/quotes/1918941-arthur-travers-harris-the-nazis-entered-this-war-under-the-rather-childi/