Re: RAF bombing of Germany after 1943

"Thomas Schneider" <thomasschneider66@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:4b5f635b$0$6549$9b4e6d93@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
William Black schrieb:
"Thomas Schneider" <thomasschneider66@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:4b5e08fd$0$7624$9b4e6d93@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
William Black schrieb:
In 1941 bombing worked to an extent that worried the British leaders.

That the German bombing raids worried British leaders is not saying it had a substantial effect.


Not only do we know it had a substantial effect, we know that this substantial effect was used as justification for the British attacks on German cities.

I read in the link you provide: "The loss of production in the worst month of the Blitz was about equal to that due to the Easter holidays".
That does not sound like a very substantial effect, but numbers could prove me wrong of course.

The Easter Holidays in the UK are a four day break when the shift-working factories closed.

That's over 1% of available production.

A statistically significant quantity.

I keep posting this and nobody's reading it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehousing_paper

I read it.


Or do you think they were lying?

The issue is not if somebody was lying. It is more about assumptions being wrong, and the facts these assumptions were made. And as I see, the dehousing paper was discussed very controversial. "On reading the dehousing paper, Professor Patrick Blackett the chief scientist to the Royal Navy said that the paper's estimate of what could be achieved was 600% too high." Did the dehousing paper evaluate actions that the Germans could take to reduce the bombing effects for example?

It doesn't matter.

The fact remains that not only did the War Cabinet accept the report, they carried out attacks based on it.

If they were wrong then it was an honest mistake.


--
William Black


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.

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  • Re: RAF bombing of Germany after 1943
    ... That the German bombing raids worried British leaders is not saying it had a substantial effect. ... Not only do we know it had a substantial effect, we know that this substantial effect was used as justification for the British attacks on German cities. ...
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  • Re: RAF bombing of Germany after 1943
    ... That the German bombing raids worried British leaders is not saying it had a substantial effect. ... Not only do we know it had a substantial effect, we know that this substantial effect was used as justification for the British attacks on German cities. ...
    (soc.history.war.world-war-ii)