FOR 12 DAYS IN 1942 THE LUFTWAFFE HIT BRITISH TOWNS THAT APPEARED IN THE BAEDEKER TRAVEL GUIDE. CHRIS GOSS ASSESSES THESE REPRISAL RAIDS
“The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.”