Warfare by Firestorm, Germany
Author Jörg Friedrich writes, “The firestorm is the apotheosis of fireraising. Until September 1944, it could not be deliberately produced. It could only be triggered when human destructive rage coupled perfectly with natural phenomena.” 1439 Britain and France declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939. On that day, Britain bombed German warships in several harbors, killing eight Kriegsmarine men at Wilhelmshaven, the war’s first casualties. Germany’s first bombing strikes against the British did not occur until October 16-17. As winter began, bombing ceased while both sides engaged in a propaganda war, dropping leaflets on the populations below.
The RAF and Imperial Chemical Industries developed the flame-jet bombs in 1936 and after successfully testing them, ordered 4.5 million of them in October. By the time war erupted, they had five million in stock. They manufactured them with magnesium-thermite, which produced a terrific weapon for a horrific fire war. By 1944, instead of dropping single bombs, Britain would figure out a way to cluster them together in such a way that when they hit their target they instantaneously burst apart to generate a firestorm. These bombs devoured Darmstadt, Heilbronn, Pforzheim, and Würzburg. The bomb’s flammable contents, gasoline, rubber, synthetic resins, oil, liquid asphalt, gels, metal soaps, acids, and phosphorus was the most deadly power next to nuclear weapons. 1440
After the Altmark Incident, on February 16, 1940, the Luftwaffe initiated a strike against the British navy yard at Scapa Flow on March 16, leading to the first British civilian death. The British then attacked the German airbase at Hörnum, hitting a hospital, but there were no casualties. The Germans retaliated with a naval raid. On May 10, Germany invaded Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, planning to push through the Ardennes into France, intending to strike quickly and effectively in the hopes of ending the war, an attack that started the Battle of France. Germany began bombing several cities in France on the evening May 9-10, killing at least forty civilians by May 11.
On May 12, the British began their initial attacks on transport targets in the German industrial Ruhr Valley, including Cologne. The British targeted troop columns and bridges, and limited bombing raids of roads and railways west of the River Rhine. The first British bombs fell on Monchengladbach on the evening of May 11-12, allegedly while Bomber Command was trying to hit roads and railroads near the Dutch-German border. The Germans threatened to bomb Rotterdam in order to persuade the Dutch to surrender. The Germans issued a second ultimatum which failed. Therefore, on May 14, officials ordered the Luftwaffe to bomb Rotterdam to force the capitulation of the besieged city.
When Winston Churchill became Prime Minister (5/10/1940), he immediately used nefarious night raids against German citizens, farms and villages, because the British could not penetrate German airspace during the day, especially from the North Sea. Wherever the British pilots saw a light, they would drop a bomb. Hitler did not respond to this bombing for three months because he thought that they would soon stop this brutal bombing. On September 4, Hitler stated that the British viewed this as weakness on the part of the Germans. Germany then began sending planes and bombs to Britain, “at an increasing rate,” night after night. He said, “We will put these nighttime pirates out of business, God help us!” 1441
In the first British air raid on Cologne, named Operation Millennium, on May 30-31, 1942, the Allies used 1,000 airplanes with 1,455 tons of bombs, mostly incendiaries that generated over 2,500 fires. In addition to that assault, they bombed the city in at least 262 separate air raids. The death rate was considerably lower than expected, fewer than 500, the majority of them civilians. These air raids left at least 45,000 people homeless. They bombed Frankfurt into a mass of rubble. They firebombed the port city of Hamburg, with a population of 1,150,000. Thousands of civilians were “roasted alive” in temperatures of 1,000 degrees. Germany was formerly the most highly industrialized nation in Europe. 1442
America and Britain referred to their attacks on Hamburg as Operation Gomorrah (July 24-August 3, 1943). Churchill and Air Chief Marshall Arthur Harris devised the strategy using coordinated strikes with the RAF and the U.S. Army Air Force. They dropped almost 8,000 tons of regular and incendiary bombs. On the night of July 27, 1943, the fires created a huge fiery current, with air temperatures of 1800° degrees and 155-mile-per-hour winds that burned everything in its path, cars, asphalt pavement, trees, everything fueled the fire, including people. This firestorm incinerated 50,000 people. Sources that are more conservative report only 40,000. Either way, it was genocide. Later, in his honor, the RAF erected a bronze statue of Harris at St. Clement Danes church in London. 1443
In 1940, the British had invented a 30-pound incendiary bomb and then produced three million of them by 1944. Then they looked unsuccessfully for a city that had not been bombed to test them on and had to settle for Brunswick, which had less damage than most. On the evening of April 22, 1944, the RAF dropped 32,000 bombs on the city. They then chose other cities—Kiel (July 24), Stuttgart (July 24-29), Stettin (August 17), and Königsberg (August 30). The RAF dropped the incendiaries on Kaiserslautern (September 27) and destroyed thirty-six percent of the buildings. In that town, the stick-type incendiaries were very effective, burning alive at least 144 people, mostly women and children. The RAF stopped using the flame-jet bomb, another type of incendiary, towards the end of the war as they had left very little left to burn in Germany. They had already dropped eighty million bombs of this type and were quite pleased with the results, especially in Dresden, where they used 650,000 of them. 1444
Hamburg was still an anglophile city and many residents did not expect that Britain would bomb it. Hamburg citizens had viewed the British as friends and allies for 150 years, when the city was part of the Hanseatic League and a trading partner since 1600. Nevertheless, the British bombed Hamburg for the first time on May 18, 1940. On May 27, 1943, Sir Arthur Harris presented his plans to destroy the city. 1445 Initially, the Allies used high explosives devised to create a huge fire in the center of Hamburg to draw the city’s fire fighters. Then they bombed in concentric circles around the city to entrap and incinerate the fire fighters. They followed this up with the use of napalm and white-phosphorus incendiaries. This unique bombing pattern created a fiery vortex and combined with the warm summer weather produced a 1,500-foot-high tornado of fire.
Bomber Command executed an incendiary attack against Hamburg, which started so many fires that a firestorm developed. Survivors described it as a giant “hurricane of flame” that incinerated 40,000 people and everything else in its way. The men of Bomber Command envisioned a firestorm for Berlin which would have given them a “militarily meaningful victory” and would have “fulfilled the dreams of the men who created Bomber Command.” 1446 Freeman Dyson wrote, “We killed altogether about 400,000 Germans, one third of them in the two fire storms in Hamburg and Dresden.” Of course, that does not count those who might have perished from exposure and starvation because of their attacks. 1447
People in Hamburg actually caught fire, just as quickly and easily as paper does. Individuals who were close to the phosphorus bombs had melting phosphorus fall on their eyes and skin, which burnt incessantly and bored its way into bone and internal organs. Operation Gomorrah, in addition to the 50,000 dead civilians, rendered more than a million German citizens homeless. About 3,000 planes dropped 9,000 tons of bombs destroying over 250,000 homes. One would assume that the Allies would be finished bombing Hamburg but the city suffered sixty-nine additional air raids before and following the week-long attack, beginning July 24, 1943, most of which targeted Germany’s oil industry. In this respect, the atomic bomb and the Hamburg phosphorus bomb both fit into the same paradigm.
In the first days after the Hamburg firestorm, workers collected at least 10,000 corpses, a veritable macabre mountain, and then buried them, a job typically managed by the Air Protection Police. First, workers sprinkled them with chlorinated lime to elimina
te the stench and for sanitary measures which made whole neighborhoods smell like lime. Recovery crews, outfitted with gas masks, worked in cellars and had the most nauseating and challenging task. They collected intact bodies and placed them on a truck. Workers then searched through the rubble for body parts. Sometimes, because of the hellish, enveloping fire, there was nothing left except a piece of gold jewelry. They buried thousands of bodies in four huge mass graves, with about 10,000 in each one, on the outskirts of Hamburg, at the Ohlsdorf Cemetery, as they did not pose a health risk. If that had been the case, they would have burned them. 1448
A coal depot by Hamburg’s Hagenbeck Zoo blazed long after the bombing. A bomb hit a floor polish factory and hot polish flowed freely down the road. Residents had to walk through the hot liquid just to get water from a hydrant across the road. The bombing destroyed thousands of homes in addition to the widespread destruction of all infrastructure—gas, electricity and water, even outside of the bombed areas, made life extremely difficult. People, if they were fortunate enough to still have a home, could not cook and had to walk for miles just to get water. 1449
The British bombed the Hagenbeck Zoo and killed four zookeepers and five other employees who were attempting to put out the dozens of fires. The zebra house suffered a direct hit. About 120 large animals were killed immediately and untold numbers of smaller animals were severely wounded, dying or were killed outright when the bombs hit. An 8,000-pound bomb hit near the facility that held the large cats and several were able to escape the fiery blaze—workers had to shoot two jaguars and a Siberian tiger to end their misery. The big cats, unquestionably panic-stricken, which were unable to escape, burned to death. Workers rounded up many of the surviving animals, put them on a train, and attempted to send them to safety in Bavaria. However, while the train was en route just east of the city, the allies bombed it and killed all of the animals that survived the initial bombing. 1450
A zoo official compiled a report in which he told of the devastation caused by the incendiaries. All the main buildings, both restaurants, the cow sheds, the deer and goat houses, the aviary, the zebra stalls, the baboon enclosure, the monkey bath, the Rhesus monkey enclosure, the aquarium and other buildings burned. 1451 German zoo officials were the first to use open enclosures surrounded by moats, instead of cages. This was more humane and resembled the animal’s natural habitats. The bombing destroyed the zoo; Germany would rebuild it following the war.
Dresden
The following bit of background might help to explain why the Allies bombed Dresden. Many countries had banished the Jews. According to one author, Andrew C. Hitchcock, officials of several countries had banished Jews at least forty-seven times, just in a period covering 1,000 years. 1452 On November 21, 1879, Professor Jesse H. Holmes, in The American Hebrew, a weekly journal first published in New York city, wrote, “It can hardly be an accident that antagonism directed against the Jews is to be found pretty much everywhere in the world where Jews and non-Jews are associated. And as the Jews are the common element of the situation it would seem probable, on the face of it, that the cause will be found in them rather than in the widely varying groups which feel this antagonism.” 1453
By the late 1870s, the Germans claimed that Jews and their “parasitism” posed a threat to all Christian nations. Many Germans said that Christianity saved the Europeans from moral bankruptcy and established Europe’s civilization and culture on a firm religious, moral, and social foundation. The Germans of the day said that Christianity was a powerful response against Jewish world domination and a protest against the Jewish elevation over other peoples. Therefore, they felt, that Jewry can only achieve its supposed superiority and world dominance if it succeeds in overpowering and destroying Christianity, and Christian nations, the initial target of its vicious attacks. 1454
During a “movement of self-protection,” many Germans wanted to revoke Jewish emancipation. In conjunction with these efforts, officials convened the First Anti-Jewish Congress in Dresden on September 11-12, 1882. The delegates, from all over Europe, agreed that prior government policies “in defense of the Christian state” had proved entirely ineffective. They devised the Manifesto to the Governments and Peoples of the Christian Nations Threatened by Judaism, a document that described the international “Jewish conspiracy,” with abundant evidence substantiating the Jew’s “lust for world domination.” 1455
During that historic meeting in Dresden, they discussed their many concerns regarding the Jews, including the masonic-based French Revolution that eliminated the protective policies that Christian people had constructed to defend themselves against the Jews’ predatory practices such as usury, their trade monopoly, their control of credit, their control over publishing and other very influential areas of society, all permitted and encouraged by Jewish religious dogma, which maintains that God had chosen them as his “privileged people.” During that Congress, the delegates also discussed the Jewish Talmud which states that the rest of humanity are little more than animals created to serve the Jews who could cheat, steal, lie, ruin and essentially kill non-Jews. They acknowledged how the Jews dominate the financial markets through which they seek to dominate the world. They control the stock exchanges, through which they regulate the price of money, commodities, and industrial goods. 1456
The participants agreed that the Jews control capitalism (Rothschild’s European Plan) which includes agriculture, business and labor. The Jews govern the banks and monopolize all financial institutions and decide who receives credit. Therefore, farmers, landowners, artisans, industrialists, and merchants depend on the Jews for their material wants and necessities, their very livelihood, putting everyone into servitude. Further, they agreed that Jews logistically position and bankroll influential men at their banks, railways, insurance companies, and newspapers. These Jewish vassals then and now become the most enthusiastic supporters of Jewish influence in the parliaments and governments. 1457 Benjamin Disraeli, revealed this pervasive influence in his 1852 novel, Coningsby, wherein the character Sidonia says, “So you see, my dear Coningsby, that the world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.” 1458
The delegates referred to the Rothschilds and the other bankers who, then and now, continue to exploit impoverished nations who, urged by those bankers, wage war in order to remain financially viable. Yet, warfare adds billions to the Jew’s burgeoning vaults and functions to concentrate more assets into the hands of the Jews, while manipulating their national calamities. They recognized how the Jews, through the burden of national debt, sap every nation’s marrow, how their governments evolve into Jewish institutions and collection agencies. The delegates understood what compelled government officials to often abandon the necessities and desires of their own populations in favor of Jewry. 1459
They noted how the Jews control the majority of the periodicals and newspapers and fabricate public opinion, and suppress all criticism of their behavior, and until recently, no newspaper in Central Europe would reveal the truth about them. The Jews repress any mention of their dominance and, in their media, praise or rebuke individuals according to their servitude of the Jewish agenda. Public servants curry favor with the Jewish press and the tribe in order to advance their career which generates intellectual slavery and moral cowardice, mere minions of Jewish power. These “public servants” become traitors to their own country and people. The participants pointed out that in many nations, the Jews have contaminated freemasonry and turned the lodges into instruments of Jewish power. Through the press, Jewry undermines Christianity, which is “a racially specific religion of the Aryan European peoples.” 1460 The delegates clearly elaborated on numerous Jewish propensities but perhaps did not sufficiently cover the Jewish trait of revenge.
In 1543, Martin Luther said, “Oh, how fond they (the Jews) are of the book of Esther, which is so beautifully attuned to their bloodthirsty, vengeful, murderous ye
arning and hope. The sun has never shone on a more bloodthirsty and vengeful people than they are who imagine that they are God’s people who have been commissioned and commanded to murder and to slay the Gentiles.” 1461 Even though the bombing of Dresden occurred about two weeks before Purim (Deliverance of the Jews) in 1945, which fell on February 27 that year, it is still significant as there is no definitive timetable that they seem to apply that vengeance from generation to generation. Frederick Lindemann, a Jew, directed Britain’s deadly strategic bombing campaign against Germany. He had detailed maps of all of the cities, showing population densities. Is it just coincidental that Britain and her bombing ally targeted Dresden, the site of that historic meeting, September 11-12, 1882?
The bombing of Dresden
By early February 1943, refugees, particularly women and children, from bombed-out cities had fled to Dresden for safety from other locations. Dresden’s normal population of 640,000 had increased to as many as a million inhabitants. The bombings occurred on the night of February 13-14, 1945, on Ash Wednesday, in a city filled with Catholics from Silesia who had fled from the Red Army. When a Catholic priest applies the ashes to the foreheads of his parishioners, he says, “Remember, O man, that thou are dust and unto dust thou shalt return.” According to Jörg Friedrich, the Allied bombing killed about 40,000 people, 1462 while others state that the number of deaths was as high as 500,000 or more.
During the previous year, authorities transformed many of the Dresden’s schools into hospital wards, as there were so many wounded people. The regular hospitals, nineteen of them, were overcrowded. During the assault, the Allies severely damaged sixteen of the nineteen regular hospitals while completely demolishing three hospitals, including the maternity clinic. Brave nurses managed to get thousands of wounded survivors to the banks of the River Elbe where they would be safe until daylight. However, 211 American planes began an attack at 11:30 a.m. when dozens of low-flying Mustang fighters specifically targeted the wounded survivors gathered by the river and the adjacent expanse of the Grosse Garten. Meanwhile, other Mustang pilots, apparently driven by some sadistic mentality, dive-bombed the crowds of panicked survivors attempting to escape the burning city. 1463
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