The war of "extermination" of the German people

On German TV (ARD-"Titel, Thesen, Temperamente", 17 Nov. 2002, 22:45h) German historian and author, Jörg Friedrich, called the bombing of the German cities during World War II "the slaughter of the Millennium". Mr. Friedrich is the author of "Der Brand - Die Bombardierung der deutschen Städte durch die Alliierten" (The Fire - The bombardment of the German Cities by the Allies). According to Mr. Friedrich more than 1000 German cities were bombarded and a large number of them were completely burned to the ground, people inside the conflagration were turned to ashes.

Naturally it was the German victims who hung one of their highest decorations, "the Karlspreis" around the neck of their butcher. Indeed, Winston Churchill received in 1955 the "Karlspreis" by Germany, rendered for "outstanding services to peace and freedom". 

The Israeli daily newspaper Ha'aretz of 19 July 2001 described Churchill as a "war monger". Quote: "The British press ... enthusiastically supported none other than warmonger Winston Churchill." Jörg Friedrich goes even further, he calls Churchill a "butcher": "As a matter of fact, Mr. Friedrich describes Churchill in his book [Der Brand / The Fire] not as a war-criminal but calls him a butcher." --Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 22 Nov. 2002, p. 44.

The man who was decorated with the "Karlspreis" for "liberating the German people from Hitler" carried out the "liberation" as follows: "The historian Jörg Friedrich claims that the Allies reduced 1000 German cities to rubble in order to kill as many civilians as possible. ... Churchill said: 'We shall turn Germany into a desert. There are means that will vanquish Hitler and that will be through, an absolute devastating war of extermination, using large bombers against the Nazi-Country'." --BILD, 18 Nov. 2002, p. 7.

Jörg Friedrich's book leaves a firebreak in the thick brushwood of historical lies and distortions. However, the Germans are obviously only permitted to be supplied with the truth in small doses. Friedrich claims in all seriousness, that it had been Hitler who started the bombing war. The truth is that Great Britain bombed Wilhelmshaven and Cuxhaven just two days after they had declared war on Germany, on 5 September 1939.

The extensive British aerial bombardments begun in May 1940: "With 99 bombers in action against the 'Ruhrgebiet' on 16/17 May 1940 the strategic carpet-bombings against Germany started. ... Only on 10 July 1940 a German retaliation against southern England followed." (a)

Churchill's desire to kill is officially described as follows: "The moral of the civil population in Germany was the aim of Britain's bombing raids. They aimed especially at the industrial workers." (b)

Hitler's politics of aerial warfare are described this way: "On 24 August 1940 bombs fell unintentionally on London. Until then Hitler had prohibited the bombing of British cities." (c)

a,b,c) The Great Encyclopedia on the Third Reich, Publishers: Christian Zentner and Friedemann Bedürftig, Südwest Verlag, München 1985, page 363-364

The official German service regulations 'aerial war' (LDv. 16) read: 'Attacks on civilian targets for the purpose of terror is to be rejected by all means.' Churchill ordered the bombard-ment of German cities in order to break the moral of the civil population. ... Coventry as a target of German air strikes was within legality according to the international conventions of war, since the city was the centre of British armament factories for aerial warfare. The attack on Coventry cannot be used as a justification for the terror attacks on Cologne, Lübeck, Hamburg and Dresden. ... I want to say: If Churchill had been a German he would have been inevitably convicted before the Nuremberg War-Crimes Tribunal as a war criminal and subsequently executed by hanging. If Curchill had been convicted at Nuremberg there would be no memorial for the 'butcher' Harris either."
--P. Lothar Groppe, SJ, longtime lecturer of German and Austrian Military General Staff. Source: Die Welt, 25 Nov. 2002, p. 9)

Churchill had mused: "Will there be room for [the German refugees, fleeing before the Red army] in what is left of Germany? We have killed six or seven million Germans and probably there will be an other million or so killed before the end of the war." --Churchill (picture) according to James F Byrnes' shorthand note of Plenary Session at Yalta, Feb. 7, 1945 (H S Truman Libr., Independence, Missouri).