"All air warfare aimed at terrorizing innocent civilians and damaging civilian property is prohibited. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info" - Washington Treaty, Chapter II, Article XXII.

In a speech to the British House of Commons on February 15, 1940, Neville Chamberlain made a statement: "The British Government will not meanly intimidate women and other innocent civilians by attacking other nations, even if they have committed acts that harm them." ”

As a result, the British government's "humanitarian policy" ended its short mission on 10 May 1940 with the ouster of Chamberlain and the inauguration of the new Prime Minister Winston Churchill: Churchill ordered the RAF to bomb Freiburg, Germany, the day after taking office. Some British historians and military theorists have pointed out that it was Churchill who lit the fuse of war that destroyed and terrorized the Germans like never before.

Beginning in May '40, after eight British air raids, the Germans launched a counter-offensive bombardment of London for several nights in September 1940, and attacked Coventry again on November 4. Hans Langf, the German writer of the book "German Air Warfare", believes that this bombing of the center of the aircraft engine industry is recognized as the beginning of a full-scale air war. At that time, half of the city buildings near the factory were completely destroyed, and several hundred people were killed. After this air raid, the Luftwaffe was suspended for a while, and the British army carried out so-called "high-precision" air raids almost night and night until early 1942.

But the impact of that violent attack on the German economy was not significant, and the production of armaments not only did not fall, but continued to rise!

This was the case until 1942. On February 21 of that year, Arthur Harris became commander-in-chief of the RAF bombing of the Third Reich, and the strategic bombing of Germany took a turn for the better. He advised the British Air Force to stop the destruction of specific targets and demanded ground bombing of German cities: in his opinion, the destruction of cities should first of all destroy their industrial enterprises in order to destroy the morale of the German people.

In the months after the end of World War II, the leaders of the victorious powers had long forgotten the cities destroyed by the war and were scrambling to divide up the defeated countries: for example, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was anxious to get rid of the bombing of Dresden (the carpet bombing of Dresden began on the morning of Valentine's Day on February 13-14, 1945). The bombing of Dresden completely destroyed the entire inner city of Dresden (15 km²) (including 14,000 houses, 72 schools, 22 hospitals, 19 churches, 5 cinemas, 50 banks and insurance companies, 31 department stores, 31 large hotels, 62 administrative buildings and the Ihago Photography Factory). Of the city's 222,000 apartments, 75,000 were completely destroyed, 11,000 were severely damaged, 7,000 were damaged, and 81,000 were mildly damaged. Various estimates of the civilian death toll vary widely due to the influence of political propaganda, ranging from 350,000 to 400,000 in Nazi Germany and 25,000 in evidence from the Stedelijk Museum in Dresden. One thing is worth noting: the Soviet Red Army has approached Dresden from the east, a distance of less than 100 kilometers, and there is no strong line of defense to stop the Red Army, while Dresden has a well-developed optical factory, and the city system is basically intact before, and it is clear that the West does not want it to fall into the hands of the Red Army in its entirety. and dozens of other cities, as if nothing had happened, as if he had not personally ordered the bombing.

Arthur Harris wrote a book called "Strategic Bombing" after the war, in which he specifically pointed out that in the rest of the war, except for the Battle of Essen, the British Royal Air Force bombed a factory at all, and even if it succeeded in destroying an enterprise, it was regarded as an additional achievement. And our criterion for success is the destruction of the city center, because the closer you are to the city center, the denser the houses and the more densely populated the city, the easier it is for the bombs dropped to destroy the whole city.

During the war, the British dropped a total of 950 million bombs weighing 430,000 tons on German cities.

When it comes to Churchill's strategic decision to demoralize the German people, instead of hastening the victory in the war, it delayed its end.

For a long time after the war, both the United States and Britain constantly defended their actions.

For example, in 1964, Ira Ikker, a retired lieutenant general of the U.S. Air Force, said: "For the 13. 50,000 people of Dresden, I am very sorry, but I have not forgotten the perpetrators of the war, and once again I regret the more than 5 million civilians who died in the war of the United States and Britain in the stubborn fight against fascism. ”

And the tone of Field Marshal Robert Sandby of the British Air Force was more softened: "No one will deny that the battle of Dresden was a tragedy, a terrible catastrophe caused by cruel coincidences. The attack in the spring of 1945 was not a vicious battle, although the Allies did not seem to be trying to figure out the destructive power of air strikes. (Despicable and shameless, Britain was another provoked country in World War II!) The best result of the clever plan. ）

This naïve statement of the British field marshal was in fact a defense of his all-out bombing of Germany: "Cities are the origin of human civilization, not the ruins of cities." - John Fuller, British historian.

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This is what Lin Jun knows about "strategic bombing", so there is no need to describe what countless strategic bombings have brought to German civilians, but the destruction of cities such as Hamburg and Cologne is negligible compared to the entire war. Probably no one knows Germany in World War II better than Lin Jun, and he would not be so naïve as to want to destroy the war morale of the German people by strategic bombing.

The strategic decision of Churchill politicians did not suit the essence of the war - that is, to completely bomb all the cities of Germany into ruins, and the Germans would still fight until the last moment, because the German nation is also an incomparably strong nation! Just like what Germany did in the Soviet Union in "history", it only aroused the fighting spirit of the Soviet people to defeat the German fascists!

Strategic bombing was a practical and feasible means of destroying Germany's industrial power, but the cities were the first target - it was not as practical as bombing factories! In addition, the characteristics of the Soviet-German war made it impossible to concentrate on and carry out strategic bombing -- a war with bayonets was the "main theme" of the Eastern Front.

This time to bomb Berlin, Lin Jun just wanted to let the ordinary German people know the cruelty of the war - to whine the fighting spirit of the Germans? Get you back? This is the Eastern Front! He doesn't care, and neither does the USSR!

Each Pi-8 heavy bomber carried about four tons of ammunition, of which 12 were a one-ton heavy explosive bomb plus twelve Class 250 explosive bombs, and the other 46 bombers were a mixture of eight 250 kg high-explosive bombs and 40 50 kg class bombs (note that the bomb is marked with a 250 kg class, not that it weighs 250 kg, but the approximate weight, most of which will be a little lighter). A new type of white phosphorus mixed incendiary bomb!

A full 12 one-ton high-explosive bombs, 512 250-kilogram bombs and 1,840 terrifying white phosphorus mixed incendiary bombs were dropped in the center of Berlin, and a long fire dragon turned the whole of Berlin into a frightened bird!

The new type of white phosphorus incendiary bomb is also said to be a product developed under the suggestion of Lin Jun, an "arson expert" -- this will make it impossible for the Soviet Union to develop a large number of thermite incendiary bombs, and the solidification ****** is not suitable for dealing with the cities built of reinforced concrete and stone that are common in Germany, and the yellow phosphorus incendiary bombs are "generally powerful", Lin Jun thought of white phosphorus last year!

White phosphorus incendiary bombs have very strong adhesion and can burn through very thick concrete! If it is on human skin, it is difficult to remove it in time, and the burning temperature is extremely high, and it can be burned all the way to the bone! At the same time, the smoke produced by the combustion is extremely irritating to the eyes and nose of the human eye, and the place where the bombing is blown up can be described as life is worse than death!

But war is like that, and it is better not to think about humanitarianism - the treaties after World War I explicitly forbade the use of shells and bombs such as yellow phosphorus in war (the Germans used yellow phosphorus shells against the Allied armored pillboxes in World War I, and it worked very well). The result, of course, was that the same thing as water-cooled heavy machine guns, which could pose a threat to the Entente, was banned. But the treaty was torn up, the Germans had already used it to bomb Warsaw, the British had dropped similar bombs on the German mainland, and then the Americans would use white phosphorus bombs with a similar recipe to the Japanese pillboxes against the Japanese pillboxes.

Everyone loves to use weapons with good effects, plus the technical requirements are not high, and those who don't use them are stupid!

After Zhdanov dropped the bomb, the fleet began to turn back - the same route as before, and it would be riskier to fly over Poland. The task of the fleet was completed, but no one felt the slightest light: they could be intercepted by half of the German native air defense forces!

The center of Berlin was in flames, and to the surprise of the crew: not a single anti-aircraft shell was fired at them from the ground until the group left the sky over Berlin! The Berliners were overwhelmed by the sudden and heavy bombardment, and although there were a small number of anti-aircraft artillery positions around the city, the soldiers were not prepared at all, and there were no 88-mm anti-aircraft guns on the route of the group!

Berlin is in chaos and people can't figure out what's going on?! They don't have the concept of air strikes in their heads! In contrast to the panicked and overwhelmed Berliners in other areas, the Germans in the city center are going through hellish suffering!

The bombing area was fixed on the line from the Museum of Natural History to the Church of Saints, which was the political center of Germany, and a large number of Nazi state institutions were working in this area - because of the "Barbarossa" operation, there were still many people working in the middle of the night, and the sudden bombing caused Germany to lose a lot of officials!

The building hit by the bomb collapsed in an instant, and there were burning flames and suffocating pungent smoke everywhere! The wounded were screaming, the crowd was scattered, and they were running around like headless flies! The neighing of fire trucks and military vehicles made the atmosphere even more tense - almost half of the government agencies were in the bombed area, and Berlin was suddenly disorganized: there was no powerful department that could organize an effective rescue operation in a short time. In this way, Zhdanov's group flew away from Berlin safely!

From this moment on, the Berliners knew what the war was all about, and it was no longer just Goebbels' glorious success! The shadow of death hovers around each of them! (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )