But Professor Burleigh told the Policy Exchange think tank conference: “Germany had no qualms about bombing Warsaw and Rotterdam. It was responsible for terror bombing London and many other British cities. In Clydebank in Scotland only eight out of 12,000 houses survived undamaged.
“The Germans had no scruples about using incendiary bombs or indiscriminate V1 and V2 rockets against Britain.”
Rejecting comparisons to the Holocaust, Professor Burleigh said: “In contrast to men shooting women and children in a ditch or herding them into gas chambers, Bomber Command crews faced terrible risks with a 44.4 per cent fatality rate in a slugging match that went on night after night for years.”
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