Re: RAF bombing of Germany after 1943

William Black schrieb:
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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.

1% is not significant IMHO, especially as it does not consider possible actions taken to reduce bombing effects on civilian population and production.


[...]
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.

Honesty can be discussed if War Cabinet members could have known better on the facts available to them. And these facts were mentioned in the debate according to the wikipedia link. With hindsight we do know by now that the moral bombing failed.

Thomas

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