Revenge for the Blitz begins

[cardboard_killer]

[80 Years ago today] "• In retaliation for the blitz, the first "area bombing" raid on a German city is carried out: Mannheim is attacked by 134 RAF bombers during the night. 34 civilians are killed, 81 are injured, and 1,266 homes destroyed or damaged by 100 tons of high explosive bombs and 14,000 incendiary bombs. This was the first deliberate Allied bombing raid against a populated target, as opposed to targets of military or industrial value. "

 

[The LW wasted immense resources between 1941-1945 trying to revenge area bombing on England, a strategy that Hitler believed the German population demanded of him and the LW.]

[CUJO_1970]

Targeting civilian population centers were not an act of revenge, they were an act of policy.