The decision by the German high command to embark on a strategy of independent bombing from September onwards rested on an act of faith that bombing might – as so many had predicted between the wars – force an enemy to surrender without a the need for a conventional ground invasion. It is not clear that Hitler had much confidence in the outcome and he insisted in September that the air force should not engage in terror attacks for their own sake. Most of the air force commanders accepted the view that bombing people achieved very little, except dead people, while focused attacks against ports, shipping, stocks and communications might actually disrupt the British war effort sufficiently to produce the secondary effect of demoralization.
Nevertheless, there were politicians and commanders…
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