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	[[File:B-17 Terror Bombers over Germany.~~jpg~~\|thumb\|450px\|American [https://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Terrorflieger Terror Bombers] over [[Germany]] during [[WWII]]; '''1 million dead''' (ca. 500,000 [[children]]), millions wounded and 20 million homeless.<ref>http://www.revisionist.net/bombing-germany.html</ref>]]		[[File:B-17 Terror Bombers over Germany.png\|thumb\|450px\|American [https://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Terrorflieger Terror Bombers] over [[Germany]] during [[WWII]]; '''1 million dead''' (ca. 500,000 [[children]]), millions wounded and 20 million homeless.<ref>http://www.revisionist.net/bombing-germany.html</ref>]]
	The '''Bombing of Germany during World War II''' almost entirely by the [[Royal Air Force]] (RAF) and the [[United States Army Air Force]] (USAAF) was argued by them to be strategic and considered by some as ''legitimate warfare'' against an enemy. But by the summer of [[1943]], the arbitrary "terror from above" was mostly an inhumane war crime, because the blanket bombings had become militarily unnecessary and had degenerated to a deliberate barbaric massacre of non-combatant civilians and the wanton destruction of Europe's architectural heritage.		The '''Bombing of Germany during World War II''' almost entirely by the [[Royal Air Force]] (RAF) and the [[United States Army Air Force]] (USAAF) was argued by them to be strategic and considered by some as ''legitimate warfare'' against an enemy. But by the summer of [[1943]], the arbitrary "terror from above" was mostly an inhumane war crime, because the blanket bombings had become militarily unnecessary and had degenerated to a deliberate barbaric massacre of non-combatant civilians and the wanton destruction of Europe's architectural heritage.

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	==Timeline of terror==		==Timeline of terror==
	[[File:Dresden bodies.~~jpg~~\|thumb\|350px\|A large stack of corpses is cremated in Dresden, Germany, after the British-American air attack between February 13 and 15, 1945.]]		[[File:Dresden bodies.png\|thumb\|350px\|A large stack of corpses is cremated in Dresden, Germany, after the British-American air attack between February 13 and 15, 1945.]]
	[[James M. Spaight]] (1877-1968), CB, CBE, Principal Secretary to the Air Ministry in his book ''Bombing Vindicated'':		[[James M. Spaight]] (1877-1968), CB, CBE, Principal Secretary to the Air Ministry in his book ''Bombing Vindicated'':

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	==1942==		==1942==
	[[File:German Luftwaffe against Bombers of the USAAF.~~jpg~~\|thumb\|350px\|German [[Luftwaffe]] against bombers of the [[USAAF]]]]		[[File:German Luftwaffe against Bombers of the USAAF.png\|thumb\|350px\|German [[Luftwaffe]] against bombers of the [[USAAF]]]]
	'''10 Jan 1942'''		'''10 Jan 1942'''

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	==1943==		==1943==
	[[File:After the Allied terror bombing a German mother in death stares at her charcoaled twins in a baby carriage.~~jpg~~\|thumb\|350px\|After the Allied terror bombings an incinerated German mother stares at her charcoaled twins in a baby carriage.]]		[[File:After the Allied terror bombing a German mother in death stares at her charcoaled twins in a baby carriage.png\|thumb\|350px\|After the Allied terror bombings an incinerated German mother stares at her charcoaled twins in a baby carriage.]]
	'''16 Jan 1943'''		'''16 Jan 1943'''

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	==1944==		==1944==
	[[File:Flakhelfer der Luftwaffe beim Endkampf um Berlin.~~jpg~~\|thumb\|350px\|Young [[Flakhelfer]] in [[Berlin]] during the last days of [[WWII]].]]		[[File:Flakhelfer der Luftwaffe beim Endkampf um Berlin.png\|thumb\|350px\|Young [[Flakhelfer]] in [[Berlin]] during the last days of [[WWII]].]]
	'''1 Jan 1944'''		'''1 Jan 1944'''

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	'''4 Nov 1944'''		'''4 Nov 1944'''
	[[File:Magdeburg destroyed on 16 January 1945.~~jpg~~\|thumb\|350px\|Magdeburg destroyed on 16 January 1945]]		[[File:Magdeburg destroyed on 16 January 1945.png\|thumb\|350px\|Magdeburg destroyed on 16 January 1945]]
	Bombers of the No. 550 Squadron RAF attacked Bochum, Germany. Airman John Riley Bryne noted in his diary that "the target was a blazing inferno".		Bombers of the No. 550 Squadron RAF attacked Bochum, Germany. Airman John Riley Bryne noted in his diary that "the target was a blazing inferno".

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	==1945==		==1945==
	[[File:A view taken from Dresden's town hall of the destroyed Old Town after the allied bombings between February 13 and 15, 1945..~~jpg~~\|thumb\|350px\|A view taken from the top of Dresden's town hall of the destroyed historical Old Town ({{lang-de\|historische Altstadt}}) after the allied bombings between February 13 and 15, 1945 – the death of this great city is symbolic for 61 German cities during [[World War II]].]]		[[File:A view taken from Dresden's town hall of the destroyed Old Town after the allied bombings between February 13 and 15, 1945..png\|thumb\|350px\|A view taken from the top of Dresden's town hall of the destroyed historical Old Town ({{lang-de\|historische Altstadt}}) after the allied bombings between February 13 and 15, 1945 – the death of this great city is symbolic for 61 German cities during [[World War II]].]]
	'''2 Jan 1945 '''		'''2 Jan 1945 '''

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