RAF Bomber crews remembered. Better late than never.

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Originally Posted by bongodriver

I think the main point Stern was trying to emphasise is the British campaign was immoral and murderous, the RAF wasn't going after strategic targets but more after women and children and babies and family pets.

Come now Bongodriver. That's not how Stern has worded it and I don't quite think thats what he is saying either. However, you can make a case for that view. We have all the war cabinet discussions available. From early 1942 our campaign was aimed at German civilians. It is still a difficult truth. That's why Churchill, ever a man with his eye on history was so keen to distance himself from it in '45.

Originally Posted by Bewolf

Something to chew over:
Not a single german military branch was solely created to kill civilians on a massive scale.
Those organisations and units geared for mass extermination were of Nazi origin. From a german perspective, that gives you an idea of what kind of connections Bomber command evokes here.

In the back of each Wermacht pay book were some fine words on the duties and responsibilities of German soldiers written during the Kaisers time. These were universally ignored in every country the German army invaded. The Wermacht, it's soldiers and commanders were complicit in war crimes everywhere they went. There is no getting away from from this, another uncomfortable truth.