"at a party dedicated to colonialism and the untermunchen"
indeed!
tho' perhaps making fun of the colonial attitude of superiority over the subject peoples??
As history shows, terror bombing of civilians (which came to its ultimate logic in WW II against Dresden, etc.) was invented by the British as a way of keeping the very numerous subject peoples in line -- when there was not enough British blood to do it on the ground man-to-man . . .
But I was always taught that the sort of terror bombing you cite was due to (a) night missions versus day missions, and (b) general license assumed after (accidental) German bombing of civilians in GB.
And,
(c) wasn't Dresden an American mission?