Word: rumpf
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...BOMBING OF GERMANY by Hans Rumpf. 256 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
Dresden was only one of 70 German cities that were at least 50% destroyed by the so-called "strategic" bombing raids of the R.A.F. and U.S.A.A.F. These raids were intended to force Germany to surrender by destroying civilian morale. But Hans Rumpf, a brigadier general who headed German civil defense during the war, is the latest of a number of military analysts to conclude that the raids did nothing to shorten the war and unnecessarily took the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, largely women and children. Strategic bombing, British Military Historian Liddell Hart has written, was the "most...
Angry Response. At the beginning of the war, writes Rumpf, bombing was carefully limited. Germany, it is true, stunned the world by bombing Warsaw and Rotterdam; but these raids were arguably part of a military attack. Hitler feared all-out air warfare because he lacked an effective long-range bomber. When Germany launched its great offensive through the Low Countries in 1940, Britain was the first to start bombing industrial targets. Not until five months after the first British raid, writes Rumpf, did Germany retaliate with the blitz of Britain...