The Archive · 1940

Indiscriminate Bombing Charged Herr Hitler declared the Royal Air

Force bombed Germany at night because they were unable to fly over the Reich in daylight. The British, he charged, dropped bombs indiscriminately on civilian and residential quarters, farms and villares, For three months he did not reply because he believed they would stop, but Mr. Churchill (British Prime Minister) saw in this a sign of German "weakness," so the Germans were now giving their answer night after night.

"We shall stop the handiwork of these night pirates, The hour will strike when one of us will break, and that will not be National-Socialist Germany. The opponent who still remains, Great Britain, the last island in Europe, will be broken."

Britain, he claimed, hated the Germans "because of our social creed, because all that we plan and carry out seems dangerous to them, Iam convinced that the world and the future belong to this development and that the States which do not join this development will collapse sooner or-later."

Referring to British air raids on Germany. Herr Hitler said: "If the British air force drops two or three or four hundred) thousand kilogrammes of bombs, then we shall now in one night drop 150,000, 180,000. 230000, 300,000 or 400,000 kilogrammes (prolonged cheering), and. if they declare they will intensify their attacks on our tities we shall blot their cities out."—Reuter.

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