Allied Bombing in World War II and the Politics of Memory in Post-War Germany

Download or read book Allied Bombing in World War II and the Politics of Memory in Post-War Germany written by Elfie Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the final phase of World War II, Germany suffered destruction by bombing of an unprecedented scale. Beginning in 1942 and continuing to the last months of the war, the Allies carried out extensive bombing of German cities with its main target on industrial sites. The attacks virtually destroyed a number of cities including Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne, Essen, Freiburg, and Dortmund and left large parts of Berlin and Munich in ruins. The number of civilians killed in these bombings is estimated at anywhere between 420,000 and 570,000. For a long time, Germans avoided public discussions of these events. Recently, however, things have started to change.