What a funny thread. Crumpp, Nash, Gripen, and Isengrim.
Well, Isengrim seems to be living in fantasy, so I aim at him yet again. Here is a cookie for you ISENGRIM:
First:
"The Brits were "too strong"? Too strong for what ? Too strong to be bombed at will between July 1940 till May 1941, until the bombers were sent against Russia? Face it, Angus-Bangus, the Brits could simply couldn`t stop it happen. And they were not even recognised as a threat big enough to bother about."
The tables turned from heavy raids on Britain into even heavyer raids on Germany in just above a year. Looks like the Germans did their maths wrong.
Second:
"Face the facts, even if they are unpleasant. The whole bombing of the Reich, wasting 60 000 Englishman in the process, was due to the fact that the UK had absolutely no chance at all to challange the Germans on the continent, and they knew it."
So I presume those nearly MILLION TONS of bombs dropped on the Reich was a proof of Britains lack of compitence?
Third: "Pityful sadism on civillians all that remained for them."
Well, now eat yer hat. The Germans themselves practically invented terror-bombing, and exercized it from the beginning of WW2, starting with undefended polish towns crowded with people. They did Warshaw, Rotterdam, Coventry, London, etc, with the incendiary method, sometimes successful, sometimes not. The method undoubtedly worked though, since they came close to buckling the British backbone in 1940 as you have already pointed out.
However, the Brits kept dropping leaflets for the first months of the war, then reverted to raids on isolated targets, preferrably industrian, then into bigger and bigger raids. in 1940 the German population lost more people in car accidents than in air-raids, and the casualties amongst the raiding british airmen were also higher, - high indeed as you have also pointed out. A rather funny campaign from the English side from a practical point of view, - it would have been so much easier to just dump incentiaries all over the easiest targets, - however there was still some humanism left at the controls. That was to change as history goes, and yet again to remind the ignorant, the British showered the Reich with bombs, the USAF topped that up. Major German cities were destroyed up to 95%, the bodycount was close to a million, the industries were in ruins, there was hunger, disease, lack of shelter, any horror available to the civilian of the reich as their own former method turned against them. No laughing matter, but a very effective way of winning a war.
Then the final:
" In their desperation they tried those senseless terror raids which cost them dearly and made them totally bancrupt for no gain (unless you count they were allowed to sign a piece of paper just like the French). I doubt this really worth loosing practically all their overseas belongings, food rationinig up to the `50s, and being indepted with billions towards the USA."
Yumm, silly Englishmen. They should have surrendered and gone hand in hand with Hitler, right?
Well, for your info, I belive that the world should be grateful for the British staying in their boots. They recognized the "beast" ahead of all others, and they turned out to be correct about it.
They did go bankrupt, already in 1940. They may still be paying to the US and the food rationing was there at least into the 50's all right. Also in my country, which was not a warring nation (Iceland), but alas, I do not know about Hungary.
Anyway, that line of yours is out of bounds, so just stuff it lad
