practices." Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Harry Elmer Barnes, Ph.D. American historian "In terms <strong>of</strong> personal success, there has been no career more fortunate than that <strong>of</strong> Winston Churchill. In terms <strong>of</strong> human suffering to millions <strong>of</strong> people and destruction <strong>of</strong> the noble edifice <strong>of</strong> mankind there has been no career more disastrous." <strong>The</strong> European and English Journal "One closes these volumes feeling, uneasily, that the true heroes <strong>of</strong> the story they tell are neither the contending air marshals, nor even the 58,888 <strong>of</strong>ficers and men <strong>of</strong> Bomber Command who were killed in action. <strong>The</strong>y were the inhabitants <strong>of</strong> the German cities under attack; the men, women and children who stoically endured and worked on among the flaming ruins <strong>of</strong> their homes and factories, up till the moment when the allied armies overran them." London Times reviewer on the British Official History <strong>of</strong> the Strategic Air Offensive. "<strong>The</strong>re are no final figures on the number <strong>of</strong> civilians killed as a result <strong>of</strong> the mass-bombing, but 2,000,000 would be a very restrained figure (estimate)." Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Harry Elmer Barnes, Ph.D. American historian <strong>The</strong> impression created by apologists and propagandists suggest that London (and other British cities) fared equally badly. It is however a fact that more Londoners died in the 1952 smog (combination <strong>of</strong> fog and pollution) than died during the blitz. (Daily Mail, March 13, 2002. KASSEL "Kassel suffered over 300 air raids, some carrying waves <strong>of</strong> 1,000 bombers; British by night, American by day. When on April, 4th, 1945, Kassel surrendered, <strong>of</strong> a population <strong>of</strong> 250,000, just 15,000 were left alive." Jack Bell, Chicago Daily News Foreign Service, Kassel, May 15th 1946 "Countless smaller towns and villages had been razed to the ground or turned into ghost towns - like Wiener Neustadt in Austria, which emerged from the air raids and the street fighting with only eighteen houses intact and its population reduced from 45,000 to 860." In the Ruins <strong>of</strong> the Reich, Douglas Botting. George, Allen & Unwin. London. 1985 AND THE OTHER CITIES: Berlin, Hamburg, Dortmund, Essen, Dresden, Frankfurt, Nuremberg, Dusseldorf, Hanover, Bremen, Wuppertal, Vienna, Duisburg. Munich, Magdeburg, Leipzig, Mannheim, Stuttgart, Kiel, Gelsdenkirchen, Bochum, Aachen, Wurzburg, Darmstadt, Krefeld, Munster, Munchen Gladbach,, Braunschweig, Ludwishafen, Remscheid, Pforzheim, Osnabruck, Mainz, Bielefeld, Gieben, Duren, Solingen, Wilhelmshafen, Karlsruhe, Oberhausen, Heilbronn, Augsburg, Hamm, Knittelfeld, Luneburg, Cuxhaven, Kulmback, Hagen, Saarbrucken, Freiburg, Graz, Koblenz, Ulm, Bonn, Bremmenhaven, Wanne-Eickel, Woms, Lubeck, Schweinfurt, Kleve, Wiener Neustadt, Wiesbaden, Paderborn, Bocholt, Hanau, Hildesheim, Emden, Siegen, Pirmasons, Hale, Bayreuth, Kreuznach, Witten, Aschaffenburg, Kaiserlautern, Gladbeck, Dorsten, Innsbruck, Neumunster, Linz, Klagenfurt, Reutlingen, Recklinghausen, Reuel, Regensburg, Homberg, Elmshorn, Wetzler, Vilach, Hamelin, Konigsburg, Moers, Passau, Solbad Hall I.T, Coburg, Attnang-Puchheim, Friedsrichhafen, Frankfurt- Oder, Danzig, Bozen, Chemnitz, Rostock, Schwerte, Plauen, Rome, Bad Kreuznach, Neapel, Genoa, 110
Mailand, Turin. Note: Martin Caidin, heavily quoted in 'A <strong>Most</strong> Uncivilised Means <strong>of</strong> Warfare' is one <strong>of</strong> the world's leading authorities on military-science subjects, with a world-wide reputation as an expert in fields that cover military and civilian aviation, rockets and missiles, astronautics, and the effects <strong>of</strong> conventional and nuclear weapons. He is a foremost authority on atomic warfare and his research findings are referred to throughout the world. Positions held include Atomic Warfare Specialist, N.Y. State Civil Defence Commission, Intelligence and Public Information, U.S. 5th Air Force, Consultant to the Commander <strong>of</strong> the U.S. Air Force Missile Test Center. He is the author <strong>of</strong> over 20 books, has worked at Cape Canaveral and Patrick Air Force Base, and is the winner <strong>of</strong> the James J. Strebig Memorial Trophy, awarded by the Aviation Writers Association. CHAPTER.16 THE CONQUERORS BLOODLUST 'Enjoy the war - the peace is going to be terrible.' Graffiti on a Berlin wall, March 1945 As the German nation fought for its survival in a war which to quote Churchill, was necessary to 'obtain German sales markets', a bloodlust seized the conquerors: THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT: "Since the end <strong>of</strong> the war about 3,000,000 people, mostly women and children and over-aged men, have been killed in Eastern Germany and south-eastern Europe; about 15,000,000 people have been deported or had to flee their homesteads and are on the road. About 25% <strong>of</strong> these people, over 3,000,000 have perished. About 4,000,000 men and women have been deported to Eastern Europe as slaves. It seems that the elimination <strong>of</strong> the German population <strong>of</strong> Eastern Europe - at least 15,000,000 people - was planned in accordance with decisions made at Yalta. Churchill had said to Mikolakczyk when the latter protested during the negotiations to Moscow against forcing Poland to incorporate eastern Germany; 'Don't mind the five or more million Germans. Stalin will see to them. You will have no trouble with them; they will cease to exist.'" Senator Homer Capehart; U.S Senate February 5th 1946 THE AMERICANS "When I said that in the end Germany would be driven into the arms <strong>of</strong> Soviet Russia and Bolshevism, the Ambassador replied: "What <strong>of</strong> it? <strong>The</strong>re will not be enough Germans left when the war is over to be worth bolshevising." Karl von Wiegand, April 23rd 1944 Chicago Herald American, November 12th p.18 THE SOVIETS "<strong>The</strong> Germans are not human beings. From now on the word German means to us the most terrible 111
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