Second World War Could Have Ended in 1943 Had Allied Bombing Focused on Military-related Targets
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By Shane Quinn
Global Research
Britain’s air commander Arthur Harris was convinced that efforts to “scourge the Third Reich” by “bombing Germany city by city”, as he put it in July 1942, would bring the war to a swift end. The outcome behind these increasingly destructive air raids proved very different to how it was foreseen.
British, and from 1943 American attacks, against densely populated areas – often avoiding armament hotspots – served to lengthen the Second World War by as much as two years.
In Europe, Allied air raids performed a central role in allowing the German war machine to roll on largely undamaged, before it came shuddering to a halt in the east.
Amid the thick of the action was Albert Speer, since his personal appointment as Nazi war minister by Hitler ...