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Should Germany claim to be the victims in Poland? [510]
So the top Nazi war criminal, Albert Speer, is
Albert Speer was the nazi official mostly respected by western authorities.They expressed great interest in his opinions and he was considered to be by far one of the most objective and realistic source of what really happened in WW2.He directed the whole german armament production and was responsible for a big part of german defense,so he had the best big picture of the real damage that western air raids caused to Germany,he knew it first hand.He was heavily interrogated by american experts about this exactly,the effects of bombing in german ability to conduct the war and some other issues of economic importance and the results of the interrogation were devastating for the strategic thinking of RAF and USAF before 1944 when they started to change their tactics.American officers tried to hide the results and pressed the interrogators not to give anything to publicity because they could have damaged the career of many important military persons.
and second was the German own strategy used in Warsaw, London, Belgrade. They got theirs at last.
The Germans mostly used their planes to hit military targets like airports,planes on the ground,camps,ammunition stocks,roads,bridges etc.They operated near the front that is why they had short range bombers like the Ju88.This tactic caused great damage to english defense,so the British sent planes to bomb Berlin in order to turn German planes against english cities for revenge.After changing its original tactic,Luftwaffe started to lose.The other attacks of german planes were short and were conducted to spread terror and paralyze the spirit for resistance just before german troops entered.They were by no means supposed to exterminate the civilian population or destroy the whole country infrastructure cuase Germans needed the industries and facilities of the countries they captured.
