Re: [Marxism] From David McReynolds

["Alan Bickley" <avb34@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

David McReynolds writes that "one of the painfully brutal ironies of history
is that Berlin, which had never been a Nazi stronghold, suffered so badly
from the bombing." It was not so much an irony as the result of a
cold-blooded intention by Sir Arthur Harris, head of Britain's Bomber
Command, to expend his bombs on the working class district of Berlin. It was
"Bomber" Harris' hope and expectation that by making miserable the lives of
those Germans who were, more than most, opposed to the Nazis an uprising or
some other form of resistance would be brought about. Berlin was, to Hitler
and the National Socialist leadership a red city. It was a red city to Sir
Arthur and to his political master, Winston Churchill. They bombed the homes
of Germany's leftmost citizens when they could have been bombing authentic
military targets.


Alan Bickley
Madison, WI



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