Arthur Harris Zitate

Sir Arthur Travers Harris, 1. Baronet GCB OBE AFC, genannt Bomber-Harris, war ein hochrangiger Offizier der Royal Air Force, zuletzt im Rang eines Marshal of the Royal Air Force. Während des Zweiten Weltkriegs war er ab Februar 1942 Oberbefehlshaber des RAF Bomber Command und gehört wegen der von ihm angeordneten Flächenbombardements deutscher Städte zu den umstrittensten Personen des Luftkriegs im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. April 1892 – 5. April 1984
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“The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them.”

Statement of 1942, at the start of the bombing campaign against Germany, as quoted in "Sir Arthur Harris & The Lancaster Bomber" at The British Postal Museum and Archive http://postalheritage.org.uk/page/ww2stamps-bomberharris
Kontext: The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.

“They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.”

Statement of 1942, at the start of the bombing campaign against Germany, as quoted in "Sir Arthur Harris & The Lancaster Bomber" at The British Postal Museum and Archive http://postalheritage.org.uk/page/ww2stamps-bomberharris
Kontext: The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.

“In spite of all that happened at Hamburg, bombing proved a relatively humane method.”

Statement on the July 1943 bombings of Hamburg, as quoted in The Valour and the Horror : The Untold Story of Canadians in the Second World War (1991)by Merrily Weisbord and ‎Merilyn Simonds Mohr, p. 107

“We are going to scourge the Third Reich from end to end. We are bombing Germany city by city and ever more terribly in order to make it impossible for her to go on with the war. That is our object; we shall pursue it relentlessly.”

Radio address (28 July 1942), as quoted by Sir Courtauld Thomson, in a House of Lords debate on bombing policy (9 February 1944) http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1944/feb/09/bombing-policy

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