Commemoration of Dresden: Why an apology from Britain to Germany is due
Having had no need to be seduced into a war with Germany in the first place in September 1939, the British government then moved through three stages of selfinflicted and aggressive injustice under the bellicose Prime Minister Churchill: 1. in MayAugust 1940 for, instead of pursuing peace offers from Germany, Churchill set out to incite total war, goading Germany into a wider air war by dropping the first bombs on German civilian areas; and 2. from March 1942, by adopting the Lindemann Plan s deliberate targeting of German workers homes the socalled dehousing policy rather than supposed industrial targets; and
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