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  1. Als Feuer vom Himmel fiel
    Der Bombenkrieg gegen die Deutschen

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2003
  2. Der Brand
    Deutschland im Bombenkrieg 1940–1945

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
  3. Brandstätten
    Der Anblick des Bombenkriegs

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
  4. Jörg Friedrich
    Resource Type: Article
    Jörg Friedrich is a Berlin-based author of books on history commonly described as an "independent German Historian". Friedrich is best known for his publication Der Brand (2002) in which he portrays the Allied bombing of civilian targets during World War II as systematic and in many ways pointless mass murder.
  5. Professor Randall Hansen
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  6. Luftangriff auf Kassel am 22 Oktober 1943
    Resource Type: Article
  7. 1945 Dresden bombing’s lesson is the same 75 years on: Might still makes right
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2020
    Dresden is like Auschwitz or Srebrenica, a terrible event elevated to almost mythical status because it is in fact the symbol of a wider phenomenon, in this case the bombing campaign conducted against a large number of German cities including Hamburg and Berlin. Dresden occupies this symbolic status because of the very high number of civilian deaths, most burned to death by incendiary bombs whose function was to set buildings alight, and because the town had little or no military significance.
  8. On the Natural History of Destruction
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    Sebald's subject matter is memory and its uncertain connection to the past. In this non-fiction work he turns his attention to the German homefront experience of the Second World War. He questions the postwar push to look to the future and ignore the past. He critiques the silence of German writers who were incapable of writing realistically about their own experiences or worse, who refurbished their own pasts. In his book he attempts to "cast some light on the way in which individual, collective and cultural memory deals with experiences exceeding what is tolerable".
  9. The Bombing of Civilians in World War II
    Resource Type: Article
    Is the deliberate mass murder of civilians on a huge scale ever justified? This article does not have an answer for this question. However, it is important to note that this was a very specific goal of England and America in World War II as the quotes above show. Germany and Japan also bombed civilians but the scale of what they did was a tiny fraction of their opponents. More people died in the bombing of Hamburg alone that in the entire German bombing campaign against England. Was the Anglo-American bombing necessary or moral? Many serious military experts feel it was a poor choice in terms of military priorities. What follows is documentation from both sides.
  10. Die Zerstörung Kassels im Oktober 1943
    Eine Dokumentation

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983


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