[redgolum]

Goring asked that “Bomber” Harris and LeMay be tried with him. He said that they committed war crimes against French and German civilians in the bombing campaigns.

In many ways, he was right. The tactic was called “Terror Bombing”, and was a spectacular failure in it's stated goal #2. Moral increased, because the towns really started to hate the Allied air forces.

[lbryce]

Goring also said that the use of the atoms bombs dropped on Japan was motivated by racism,that the US would not have used it against Germany had there been an opportunity to use in Europe. Do you agree with Goring on that point as well?

[af_vet_rr]

Goring asked that “Bomber” Harris and LeMay be tried with him. He said that they committed war crimes against French and German civilians in the bombing campaigns.

In many ways, he was right. The tactic was called “Terror Bombing”, and was a spectacular failure in it's stated goal #2. Moral increased, because the towns really started to hate the Allied air forces.

It met another goal that was in some ways just as important as the first two: It shattered the myth of German supremacy that Hitler had built up prior to the war, and it cast doubt on the Germans' ability to win, and that did start wearing down morale. It may have pissed off some at the Allied air forces, but it destroyed a lot of the efforts Hitler and his staff had put into their propaganda. Every single raid told the German people, consciously or subconsciously, that they did not have air superiority, and with the numbers of planes and numbers of raids increasing, it made it all too clear that the war was not going to be won, and it was just a matter of time.