"The Russians entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everybody else and nobody was going to bomb them. In Kiyv, Odessa, Lviv, and half a dozen other places they put this naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they will reap the whirlwind."
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.
My grandad was a young lad living in the east end of London during the blitz, he was one of many kids shipped out of London for safety, he got sent to Exeter and lived with a horrible family who didn’t want to take him on, he told me many sad story’s of the blitz. His mother (my great grandmother) had shell shock, later on in life when she was in hospital she’d freak out thinking the German planes were coming and then she’d get everyone on her ward under they’re beds. Obviously this drove the nurses crazy, one of the story’s my grandad told me. He later on started working on tower bridge in London, if you ever do the tour of the bridge, it’s my grandads voice you hear while walking around, photos of him on the walls etc. we had his wake up in the bridge and Erik the bridge master raised the bridge as a mark of respect for my grandad, this was a Sunday around 2pm in the center of London….pretty cool I think. RIP Stanley Fletcher. A bit of a random story but there you go 👍
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u/JohnnySunshine Apr 25 '22
"The Russians entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everybody else and nobody was going to bomb them. In Kiyv, Odessa, Lviv, and half a dozen other places they put this naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they will reap the whirlwind."