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DEATH OF A CITY
Mike Walsh-McLaughlin
Hidden History
The Book they don’t want you to read
DEATH OF A CITY
First Published Phoenix Publications 1982
Michael McLaughlin-Walsh ISBN 0-86246-002-6 (1982)
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BUT T’WAS A FAMOUS VICTORY
And everybody praised the Duke,
Who this great fight did win,
„But what good came of it at last?‟
Quoth Little Peterkin.
„Why, that I cannot tell,‟ said he,
But „t‟was a famous victory.‟
NO CAREER MORE DISASTROUS
“In terms of personal success, there has been no career more
fortunate than that of Winston Churchill. In terms of human
suffering to millions of people and destruction of the noble edifice
of mankind there has been no career more disastrous.” ~ The
European and English Journal. Source: American Manifest
Destiny and the Holocausts, p. 176.
“One closes these volumes feeling, uneasily, that the true heroes
of the story they tell are neither the contending air marshal‟s, nor
even the 55,888 officers and men of Bomber Command who were
killed in action. They were the inhabitants of the German cities
under attack; the men, women and children who stoically endured
and worked on among the flaming ruins of their homes and
factories, up till the moment when the allied armies overran
them.” ~ London Times reviewer on the British Official History of
the Strategic Air Offensive.
CONTENTS BY CHAPTER
HAMBURG EARLY 20th
CENTURY
CHAPTER ONE A CITY MUST DIE
CHAPTER TWO THE CITY DIGS IN
CHAPTER THREE THE HOLOCAUST BEGINS
CHAPTER FOUR WHEN SATAN RULED, GOD WEPT
CHAPTER FIVE HAMBURG IS NO MORE
CHAPTER SIX WATER, SWEET WATER
CHAPTER SEVEN SATAN RELEASED TO DO HIS WORST
CHAPTER EIGHTDEATH IN THE AIR
CHAPTER NINE THE INCINERATION OF A GREAT CITY
CHAPTER TEN SHAME IS STRUCK FROM THE RECORDS
CHAPTER ELEVEN THE LAST CONVULSIONS
REFERENCES
PHOTOGRAPHS
CHAPTER ONE
A CITY MUST DIE
German children huddle in a Hamburg cellar
Woven into the tapestry of the Second World War was the
destruction of much of Europe by the Allied air armadas. The
purpose of the ceaseless carpet bombing by the RAF and USAF
was not to hamper the war effort. Its purpose was the destruction
and annihilation of Germany and the German peoples. This policy
had never been used since Asia‟s Attila the Hun (406 – 453) and
Mongol Genghis Khan (1162 – 1227) set out to destroy every
living creature and every building in the area of occupation.
"Our primary purpose is destruction of as many Germans as
possible. I expect to destroy every German west of the Rhine and
within that area in which we are attacking." ~ General Dwight D.
Eisenhower. J. Kingsley Smith (INS) Paris. February 24, 1945.
"What we want to do in addition to the horrors of fire is to bring
the masonry crashing down on the Boche, to kill Boche and to
terrify Boche." ~ Bomber Butch' Harris, 1942. The Sunday Times,
January 10 1993.
Whenever the bombing campaign is mentioned the kneejerk
response is „well, they started it‟ and „we only did what they were
doing to us and so deserved it.‟ Both of these views have been
exposed as lies but the victors write the history books. Sir Basil
Liddell-Hart, Britain‟s most highly acclaimed military historian
described Britain‟s policy of targeting civilian populations as
“The most uncivilised method of warfare the world has known
since the Mongol invasions.”
Who initiated the targeting of non-combatant civilian
populations? On May 10, 1940, just one day after his appointment
(not election) Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that
the bombing of Germany‟s civilian population would commence.
J. M. Spaight, Principal Secretary to the Air Ministry: “Hitler
only undertook the bombing of British civilian targets reluctantly
three months after the R.A.F. had commenced bombing German
civilian targets.”1.
He went on to say that: “Hitler would have been
willing at any time to stop the slaughter. Hitler was genuinely
anxious to reach with Britain an agreement confining the action of
aircraft to battle zones.”2
Winston Churchill long before his declaration of war on the
Workers Reich supported the use of aerial gas as a means of
warfare. Such illegal weaponry was used to terrorise the
occupants of village and towns in Iraq by the RAF. Winston
Churchill's enthusiasm for behind the lines destruction of civilian
populations could be traced back to his comment: "The air
opened paths along which death and terror could be carried far
behind the lines of the actual enemy; to women, children, the
aged, the sick, who in earlier struggles would perforce have been
left untouched.” ~ Winston Churchill, The Great War. Volume 3
P1602.
Coventry is often cited as evidence of German fiendishness. Less
well-known is that Winston Churchill and his unelected War
Cabinet were pre-warned of this attack. Their reason for not
warning the population of the targeted city was to use their deaths
to create a greater war psychosis and to appease Bolshevik Joseph
Stalin. The soviet tyrant was desperate for Britain to goad the
Germans from bombing Soviet cities. At the war‟s end on May 8,
1945 Coventry mourned but the destruction of 100 acres and loss
of life of 380 people cannot be compared to the destruction
wrought by the Allies. For every Briton killed by German bombs
no less than nine Germans were killed during Allied bombing
raids.
In the demilitarised and defenceless City of Dresden an estimated
135,000 mostly civilian refugees were incinerated during Allied
bombing raids in just 24 hours. That beautiful city which
contributed little to the German war effort was virtually removed
from the face of the earth. It was a crime of such magnitude that
one of Great Britain‟s most eminent Socialists, R.H.S. Crossman,
described it as: “The long-suppressed story of the worst massacre
in the history of the world.” He went on to say: “The devastation
of Dresden in February 1945 was one of those crimes against
humanity whose authors would have been arraigned at
Nuremberg if that court had not been perverted.”3
Equally horrendous were the RAF and USAF attacks on Hamburg
between July 24 and August 3, 1943. The RAF reduced to rubble
more than 6,000 acres of Hamburg. An estimated 100,000 people
lost their lives. When a thousand-year-old city of 2,000,000 souls
is incinerated in just a few days with the loss of so many lives
what affect does it have on survivors? An official German
document states: “For weeks afterwards eyewitnesses were unable
to report without succumbing to their nerves and weeping
hysterically. They would try to speak, then would break down and
cry: „I can‟t stand seeing it again; I can‟t stand it.”
Many weeks later, a woman who did survive was interviewed.
She had still not recovered from the experience: “I saw people
killed by falling bricks and heard the screams of others dying in
the fire. I dragged my best friend from a burning building and she
died in my arms. I saw others who went stark mad. The shock to
the nerves and the soul, one can never erase.”
The Police President of Hamburg reported: “Its horror is revealed
in the howling and raging of the firestorms, the hellish noise of
exploding bombs and the death cries of martyred human beings as
well as the big silence after the raids. Speech is impotent to
portray the measure of the horror, which shook the people for ten
days and nights and the traces of which were written indelibly on
the face of the city and its inhabitants. No flight of imagination
will ever succeed in measuring and describing the gruesome
scenes of horror in the many buried air raid shelters. Posterity can
only bow its head in honour of the fate of these innocents,
sacrificed by the murderous lust of a sadistic enemy.”
Martin Caidin is one of the world‟s leading authorities on military
science subjects. The high-ranking U.S. Government official was
an expert on bombing effects and author of many related books.
He described the bombing of Hamburg as: “Standing out as the
worst of the disasters visited upon civilisation during the insanity
of the Second World War.”4
As Germany‟s second largest city, Hamburg was a natural target
for allied bombing raids. The shame attached to Operation
Gomorrah was that it far exceeded that which was necessary to
paralyse the city‟s contribution to Germany‟s war effort.
Gomorrah was the code name given to the plan to incinerate
Hamburg in 1943.
Hamburg is a hanseatic city that straddles the River Alster
immortalised by music and in particular the Moonlight on the
Alster waltz. Perhaps the port city‟s most endearing feature was
its medieval half-timbered houses that before the war attracted
tourists from all over the world. Sadly, this medieval feature made
it attractive to the allied war lords. In their cynicism they reasoned
that such a city would burn easier and offer more potential
victims per square mile.
The method devised for the total destruction of Hamburg was
simple and extremely effective. The first waves of bombers would
release thousands of high-explosive bombs on the city. The effect
would be to keep the terrified population and especially the city‟s
fire service huddled in their shelters. The subsequent raids would
rain down the international condemned and illegal use of
magnesium and phosphorous bombs.
It has been estimated that during those ten days, Hamburg was
struck by 1,200 landmines, 30,000 heavy high-explosive bombs,
and 3,000,000 stick incendiary bombs. Also, the phosphorous
filled bomb was assuredly the most demonic weapon devised by
mankind; eighty thousands of these 100-pound phosphorous
bombs were dropped plus 500 phosphorous canisters and 500
phosphorous incendiaries. The affect that this type of weapon had
on civilians is one of the worst nightmares to emerge from the
World War Two as we shall later see. Hamburg, just one German
city during ten cataclysmic days suffered a loss of life comparable
to the combined total of lives lost in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the
two Japanese Christian cities that were delivered of the atomic
bomb.
~ THE FIRST BREACH OF INTERNATIONAL LAW ~ "This
raid on the night of May 11 1940, although in itself trivial, was an
epoch-marking event since it was the first deliberate breach of the
fundamental rule of civilised warfare that hostilities must only be
waged against the enemy combatant forces. Their flight marked
the end of an epoch which had lasted for two and one half
centuries.” ~ F. J. P Veale, Advance to Barbarism, p.172.
Most are aware of the tragedy of Dresden‟s incineration. Fewer
are aware of the comparable loss of life suffered by Hamburg.
Lost in the confusion the fate of the populations of Berlin,
Hamburg, Dortmund, Essen, Dresden, Frankfurt, Nuremberg,
Dusseldorf, Hanover, Bremen, Wuppertal, Vienna, and Duisburg.
Munich, Magdeburg, Leipzig, Mannheim, Stuttgart, Kiel,
Gelsenkirchen, Bochum, Aachen, Wurzburg, Darmstadt, Krefeld,
Munster, Munchen Gladbach, Braunschweig, Ludwigshafen,
Remscheid, Pforzheim, Osnabruck, Mainz, Bielefeld, Gieben,
Duren, Solingen, Wilhelmshaven, Karlsruhe, Oberhausen,
Heilbronn, Augsburg, Hamm, Knittelfeld, Luneburg, Cuxhaven,
Kulmback, Hagen, Saarbrucken, Freiburg, Graz, Koblenz, Ulm,
Bonn, Bremerhaven, Wanne-Eickel, Worms, Lubbock, Kassel,
Schweinfurt, Kleve, Wiener Neustadt, Wiesbaden, Paderborn,
Bocholt, Hanau, Hildesheim, Emden, Siegen, Pirmasons, Hale,
Bayreuth, Kreuznach, Witten, Aschaffenburg, Kaiserlautern,
Gladbeck, Dorsten, Innsbruck, Neumunster, Linz, Klagenfurt,
Reutlingen, Recklinghausen, Reuel, Regensburg, Holmberg,
Elmshorn, Wetzel, Villach, Hamelin, Konigsberg, Moers, Passau,
Solbad Hall I. T, Cobourg, Attnang-Puchheim, Friedrichshafen,
Frankfurt-Oder, Danzig, Bozen, Chemnitz, Rostock, Schwerte,
Plauen, Rome, Bad Kreuznach, Neapel, Genoa, Mailand, Turin.
"Kassel suffered over three hundred air raids, some carrying
waves of 1,000 bombers; British by night, American by day.
When on April, 4, 1945, Kassel surrendered, of a population of
250,000, just 15,000 were left alive." ~ Jack Bell, Chicago Daily
News Foreign Service, Kassel, May 15th 1946.
Posterity will find it difficult to find mass murder on a scale as
that carried out by Britain‟s RAF and the United States Air Force
(USAF) of World War Two.
CHAPTER TWO
THE CITY DIGS IN
The hidden holocaust: This is what a real holocaust looks like
"The primary purpose of these raids was to goad the Germans into
undertaking reprisal raids of a similar character on Britain. Such
raids would arouse intense indignation in Britain against Germany
and so create a war psychosis without which it would be
impossible to carry on a modern war." ~ Dennis Richards, the
Royal Air Force 1939 - 1945. The Fight at Odds. H. M Stationery
Office.
As might be expected of a German city no effort was spared to
make the city as safe as possible from air attack. Hamburg was
perhaps the best protected city in Europe from an air attack point
of view. The Police President of Hamburg wrote: “The fate of our
cities in the Ruhr district and on the Rhine was a warning. None
of the experience gained there was disregarded. The plainly
increasing intensity of the war in the air led to an acceleration of
tempo in the constant development of air protection measures
which finally reached the limit of possibility.”
Throughout the German city there was total mobilisation of all
resources and there was no shortage of volunteers. Men, women,
and even children worked ceaselessly to make their city safe from
potential attacks by Britain‟s RAF and America‟s USAF. Fire-
fighting equipment was kept in tip-top condition and was always
to hand. A massive air raid shelter construction program was
begun. The authorities assisted civilians in building air raid
shelters in homes and factories. The same authorities saw to it that
the city‟s hospitals, government buildings, schools, administrative
and police buildings were likewise catered for. Predicting
conditions in which every drop of water would be more precious
than gold itself a program was begun that would revolutionise the
entire water system in and around the city. All open waters were
requisitioned. At each of the city‟s harbour and canal systems
there were built special ramps, approaches and platforms to
enable easy access. Wherever possible all water storage systems
were built. Streams and rivers were dammed and all lakes and
ponds in the area were cleaned, enlarged and made deeper. Even
sewers were utilised for the piping of water to those areas that
were in need.
A British voice of humanity: "The third and last phase of the
British air offensive against Germany began in March 1942 with
the adoption of the Lindemann Plan by the British War Cabinet,
and continued with undiminished ferocity until the end of the war
in May, 1945.
The bombing during this period was not, as the Germans
complained, indiscriminate. On the contrary; it was concentrated
on working class houses because, as Professor Lindemann
maintained, a higher percentage of bloodshed per ton of
explosives dropped could be expected from bombing houses built
close together, rather than by bombing higher class houses
surrounded by gardens." ~ Advance to Barbarism, F. J. P Veale,
British Author and Jurist.
Nothing was overlooked. Swimming pools, rain water tanks,
industrial cooling tanks, wells, empty oil storage tanks; even the
water tanks in the laboratory of Hamburg‟s Experimental Ship
Construction Institute were used. If necessity is the father of
invention Hamburg‟s preparation was the proof of it.
When all such measures had been taken the mobilised city looked
to other ways and means by which water could be stored. The
cellars of two wrecked buildings were cleaned out and the shells
used as reservoirs. Seven thousand private wells were catalogued
and 52 private wells on industrial premises were linked to the
general system. Firms like oil companies, breweries which used
especially constructed fluid carrying vehicles were also utilised.
Rarely in the history of mankind has an entire population
mobilised to defend itself better than Hamburg‟s did.
No matter how small and seemingly insignificant nothing was
overlooked. All vital targets were camouflaged; smoke-screen
generators were placed where needed. All inflammable material
was removed unless it was absolutely necessary. All attics were
cleared of any material of an inflammable nature by lawful edict
and all homes were liable to spot checks to ensure that defensive
measures were being complied with. By the time that all possible
defensive measures had been completed it was impossible to
improve upon them. Hardly a single person, regardless of age or
sex, was not involved in some aspect of defence. The bombing
expert Martin Caidin wrote that civil defence training and
activities in the city of Hamburg attained an almost unbelievable
level of co-ordination and efficiency.
Typical Hamburg Air Shelter
The people of the city were mobilised as fire-watchers, air raid
wardens, rescue teams and voluntary firemen, labour gangs,
evacuation crews, medical teams and messengers. In addition to
those measures neighbourhood assistance programs were started
as were self-help groups. When the holocaust was to be visited
upon these people it could never be said that their idleness had
contributed to their tragedy.
In his official report the Police President of Hamburg wrote: “A
greater state of readiness in the Air Protection Service was not
possible. On the material side, bearing in mind existing
conditions, the limit had been reached. On the side of personnel
and organisation, not only had the legal regulations been fulfilled
and even surpassed, but among the entire Hamburg population
there was a readiness for defence and a spirit that was bound to
surmount any test. Difficulties of a bureaucratic nature, which in a
modern state, with a mass of necessary authorities as a rule are
unavoidable, practically did not arise in Hamburg. Collaboration
on all sides was so exemplary that at least one prerequisite for
successfully meeting the severest ordeal by fire was assured.”5
Throughout June of 1943 and halfway through July Hitler‟s
Germany withstood ceaseless and relentless waves of British and
American bombers. Throughout each day the skies over Germany
were darkened by U.S Air Force bombers. The night skies were
filled with Britain‟s RAF bombers. Little regard was paid to the
likely victims of bombs dropped indiscriminately. Indeed, the
allies had already decided that civilians including refugees were
not only legitimate targets but in some cases they were preferable
targets.
Typical pre-war German city. Of the four protagonists the only
legitimately elected government ~ one election and one plebiscite
(referendum) was that of the Workers Reich. Winston Churchill,
MP, parachuted into 10 Downing Street, was never in his life
elected to premiership. Soviet tyrant Josef Stalin never stood for
election in his life. Roosevelt afterwards admitted that his lie not
to involve the U.S in a European war narrowly won the election
for his party.
Prime Minister Chamberlain, before his being ousted by
Churchill‟s pro-war clique, had been quite adamant on the matter
of bombing civilians. He had said that such a policy “was
absolutely contrary to international law.” As elected Prime
Minister he had given the assurance that: “The British
Government would never resort to the deliberate attack on women
and children for purposes of mere terrorism.”
Winston Churchill had no such scruples. The unelected despot
was a party to the most appalling acts of mass murder which
included the aerial strafing of women and children refugees as
they fled from their burning cities or before the Red Army‟s
raping Asiatic hordes.6
"I am in full agreement (of terror bombing). I am all for
the bombing of working class areas in German cities. I am
a Cromwellian, I believe in 'slaying in the name of the
Lord!" ~ Sir. Archibald Sinclair, British RAF Secretary
for Air.
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