Comments by "" (@colby25) on "Deutschland 1945: Sensationell restaurierte Filmaufnahmen von George Stevens" video.
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@fortnitepros8025 You forgot warsaw i notice. Plus german bombers bombed london in error from which then churchill retaliated with a bombing on berlin.
Navigational errors, British counter-measures, and air-crew exhaustion prompted the bombers to overshoot their targets and mistakenly fly on towards blacked-out London in the early morning hours of 25 August. While most of the bombers dropped their explosives around the docks of East Ham and West Ham, justified military targets, there were a scattering of others that mistakenly bracketed central London with their bombs – 16 miles west in Staines, 12 miles south-west in Esher, and 8 miles north in north London.
Additionally, there was one lone Heinkel that just so happened to drop its payload of approximately eight bombs, totalling two tons, directly on the financial heart of London: Fore Street in the Barbican. For the first time since the Zeppelin raids in World War I, in addition to factories and other military targets, the night sky of London glowed red from the flames of hundreds of burning homes.
Interpreting the attack as deliberate rather than accidental, Churchill immediately and forcefully responded to the London bombing with a ‘massive’ retaliatory strike against the Nazi capital. This massive attack resulted in 2 injured and one zoo elephant killed. The result did have the effect of hitler changing their srategy from attacking airfields to
carpet bombing civilians and flattening cities including my own of plymouth.
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