Comments by "Ray Purchase" (@raypurchase801) on "The Blitz; Britain's favourite myth" video.

Funny how all the best Labour politicians are from a wealthy and privileged background.
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Simon made a similar error in one of his videos a few years ago. Simon erroneously claims the RAF bombed German cities before the Luftwaffe bombed London. The RAF bombed German Kriegsmarine ports: The docks, shipbuilding yards and so on. This was wholly within the rules of war. It's false to claim the cities themselves were the targets.
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I've been rewatching the TV series, "Minder". The scenes of crowds and roads are quite different between then and now.
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@Vile_Entity_3545 Germany bombed Warsaw before the RAF bombed Germany. A raid on a city's naval port is not the same as bombing a city.
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@MarkJones-ji8fd "Heavy bombers" scarcely existed in '39 or '40. The He 111's bombload was similar to that of the Wellington and the Whitley. Rotterdam was destroyed by the He 111. "Heavy" bombers didn't come about until later. The Luftwaffe's bombers were indeed intended as a tactical air force, rather than a strategic air force.
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@willieckaslike You're claiming Dresden was bombed after Germany's "informal surrender". You are writing first-class A-grade premium-quality bow locks.
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I HUGELY respect Simon, but on this one subject he's mistaken. Bomber Command attacked Kriegsmarine facilities in numerous ports. Simon reads the name of the city and assumes the city was the target. It wasn't.
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@MarkJones-ji8fd You're attempting to justify the bombing of Warsaw. Wow.
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It was the turning point of the BoB. Churchill could have been replaced by Lord Halifax at any time.
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@KyleTheDalek I've read a detailed account of the Rotterdam raid. I don't recall the details, but it's clear Rotterdam was indeed attacked in error. I don't recall the exact details. I think it was something like Rotterdam was planned to be attacked. The attack was called off but the order to cancel didn't get through. If you can find the exact details, please correct me.
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Very true. I HUGELY respect Simon, but on this one subject he's mistaken. Naming the city where the docks were bombed implies the city was the target. The casualties suffered by Bomber Command in September '40 were catastrophic.
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@hafizihilmibinabdulhalim1004 Yep.
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@KyleTheDalek I love the names we give to ourselves on YouTube.
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@KyleTheDalek I don't know why our dear much-respected Simon made this error. Perhaps he read a list of the targets raided by Bomber Command in '39 and '40, and made the wrong assumption. Sometimes Simon replies to comments. This morning, I found one of Simon's replies and rep[lied to him, respectfully pointing out his error. This is a means of contacting Simon directly. I returned two hours later, and Simon had deleted his own comment. Perhaps Simon read my comment, and decided to do a bit of his own research to see if he'd got it wrong. Simon is a very conscientious bloke. I'm certain he'd like to correct his own errors if he can.
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@KyleTheDalek During WW1's Zeppelin raids, British shells did indeed kill more civilians than did German bombs. Zeppelin raids were such a novel event that the public went outside to watch. In the late 30s, the Air Ministry tried to anticipate casualties in a second world war. They compared the puny tonnage of bombs carried by Zeppelins with the number of people killed. They extrapolated the casualties which might be caused by hundreds of bombers and expected possibly millions of deaths. Tens of thousands of cheap coffins were secretly stockpiled in anticipation. Shelters were built in great haste. As it turned out, real life casualties in WW2's blitz were only a fraction of those predicted. Unlike in WW1, everyone took to the shelters. A bit like covid. Basing predictions on flawed assumptions is a bad idea.
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@KyleTheDalek It was never intended to "terror bomb" the German civilians. However, it was realised that the best way to destroy a city's factories was by fire, rather than high explosives.
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@Jester-Riddle Thanks. Simon is a great bloke, but his videos attract a wide range of viewers, some of whom are geeky-nerds about specific subjects. Sometimes we have knowledge that even our much-revered Simon lacks. And, being Simon, I'm certain he'll accept us correcting him.
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@Dude0000 In those days, the term "Britain" included the Empire, but the Empire was sparsely populated and thousands of miles away. Poland, France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Austria and Czechoslovakia had all fallen to the Germans. Italy was allied to Germany and intended to close the Mediterranean. Spain was a non-combatant Nazi ally. Many German divisions were raised from volunteers in the occupied countries. Germany controlled the industrial output of virtually all of Europe and, on paper, should have outproduced the UK with ease. In reality, the German economic model was so stoooopid that the UK's industrial output became greater than the output of the entire German empire.
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