DEATH OF A CITY

Mike Walsh-McLaughlin

Hidden History

The Book they don’t want you to read

DEATH OF A CITY

First Published Phoenix Publications 1982

Michael McLaughlin-Walsh ISBN 0-86246-002-6 (1982)

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BUT T’WAS A FAMOUS VICTORY

And everybody praised the Duke,

Who this great fight did win,

„But what good came of it at last?‟

Quoth Little Peterkin.

„Why, that I cannot tell,‟ said he,

But „t‟was a famous victory.‟

NO CAREER MORE DISASTROUS

“In terms of personal success, there has been no career more

fortunate than that of Winston Churchill. In terms of human

suffering to millions of people and destruction of the noble edifice

of mankind there has been no career more disastrous.” ~ The

European and English Journal. Source: American Manifest

Destiny and the Holocausts, p. 176.

“One closes these volumes feeling, uneasily, that the true heroes

of the story they tell are neither the contending air marshal‟s, nor

even the 55,888 officers and men of Bomber Command who were

killed in action. They were the inhabitants of the German cities

under attack; the men, women and children who stoically endured

and worked on among the flaming ruins of their homes and

factories, up till the moment when the allied armies overran

them.” ~ London Times reviewer on the British Official History of

the Strategic Air Offensive.

CONTENTS BY CHAPTER

HAMBURG EARLY 20th

CENTURY

CHAPTER ONE A CITY MUST DIE

CHAPTER TWO THE CITY DIGS IN

CHAPTER THREE THE HOLOCAUST BEGINS

CHAPTER FOUR WHEN SATAN RULED, GOD WEPT

CHAPTER FIVE HAMBURG IS NO MORE

CHAPTER SIX WATER, SWEET WATER

CHAPTER SEVEN SATAN RELEASED TO DO HIS WORST

CHAPTER EIGHTDEATH IN THE AIR

CHAPTER NINE THE INCINERATION OF A GREAT CITY

CHAPTER TEN SHAME IS STRUCK FROM THE RECORDS

CHAPTER ELEVEN THE LAST CONVULSIONS

REFERENCES

PHOTOGRAPHS

CHAPTER ONE

A CITY MUST DIE

German children huddle in a Hamburg cellar

Woven into the tapestry of the Second World War was the

destruction of much of Europe by the Allied air armadas. The

purpose of the ceaseless carpet bombing by the RAF and USAF

was not to hamper the war effort. Its purpose was the destruction

and annihilation of Germany and the German peoples. This policy

had never been used since Asia‟s Attila the Hun (406 – 453) and

Mongol Genghis Khan (1162 – 1227) set out to destroy every

living creature and every building in the area of occupation.

"Our primary purpose is destruction of as many Germans as

possible. I expect to destroy every German west of the Rhine and

within that area in which we are attacking." ~ General Dwight D.

Eisenhower. J. Kingsley Smith (INS) Paris. February 24, 1945.

"What we want to do in addition to the horrors of fire is to bring

the masonry crashing down on the Boche, to kill Boche and to

terrify Boche." ~ Bomber Butch' Harris, 1942. The Sunday Times,

January 10 1993.

Whenever the bombing campaign is mentioned the kneejerk

response is „well, they started it‟ and „we only did what they were

doing to us and so deserved it.‟ Both of these views have been

exposed as lies but the victors write the history books. Sir Basil

Liddell-Hart, Britain‟s most highly acclaimed military historian

described Britain‟s policy of targeting civilian populations as

“The most uncivilised method of warfare the world has known

since the Mongol invasions.”

Who initiated the targeting of non-combatant civilian

populations? On May 10, 1940, just one day after his appointment

(not election) Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that

the bombing of Germany‟s civilian population would commence.

J. M. Spaight, Principal Secretary to the Air Ministry: “Hitler

only undertook the bombing of British civilian targets reluctantly

three months after the R.A.F. had commenced bombing German

civilian targets.”1.

He went on to say that: “Hitler would have been

willing at any time to stop the slaughter. Hitler was genuinely

anxious to reach with Britain an agreement confining the action of

aircraft to battle zones.”2

Winston Churchill long before his declaration of war on the

Workers Reich supported the use of aerial gas as a means of

warfare. Such illegal weaponry was used to terrorise the

occupants of village and towns in Iraq by the RAF. Winston

Churchill's enthusiasm for behind the lines destruction of civilian

populations could be traced back to his comment: "The air

opened paths along which death and terror could be carried far

behind the lines of the actual enemy; to women, children, the

aged, the sick, who in earlier struggles would perforce have been

left untouched.” ~ Winston Churchill, The Great War. Volume 3

P1602.

Coventry is often cited as evidence of German fiendishness. Less

well-known is that Winston Churchill and his unelected War

Cabinet were pre-warned of this attack. Their reason for not

warning the population of the targeted city was to use their deaths

to create a greater war psychosis and to appease Bolshevik Joseph

Stalin. The soviet tyrant was desperate for Britain to goad the

Germans from bombing Soviet cities. At the war‟s end on May 8,

1945 Coventry mourned but the destruction of 100 acres and loss

of life of 380 people cannot be compared to the destruction

wrought by the Allies. For every Briton killed by German bombs

no less than nine Germans were killed during Allied bombing

raids.

In the demilitarised and defenceless City of Dresden an estimated

135,000 mostly civilian refugees were incinerated during Allied

bombing raids in just 24 hours. That beautiful city which

contributed little to the German war effort was virtually removed

from the face of the earth. It was a crime of such magnitude that

one of Great Britain‟s most eminent Socialists, R.H.S. Crossman,

described it as: “The long-suppressed story of the worst massacre

in the history of the world.” He went on to say: “The devastation

of Dresden in February 1945 was one of those crimes against

humanity whose authors would have been arraigned at

Nuremberg if that court had not been perverted.”3

Equally horrendous were the RAF and USAF attacks on Hamburg

between July 24 and August 3, 1943. The RAF reduced to rubble

more than 6,000 acres of Hamburg. An estimated 100,000 people

lost their lives. When a thousand-year-old city of 2,000,000 souls

is incinerated in just a few days with the loss of so many lives

what affect does it have on survivors? An official German

document states: “For weeks afterwards eyewitnesses were unable

to report without succumbing to their nerves and weeping

hysterically. They would try to speak, then would break down and

cry: „I can‟t stand seeing it again; I can‟t stand it.”

Many weeks later, a woman who did survive was interviewed.

She had still not recovered from the experience: “I saw people

killed by falling bricks and heard the screams of others dying in

the fire. I dragged my best friend from a burning building and she

died in my arms. I saw others who went stark mad. The shock to

the nerves and the soul, one can never erase.”

The Police President of Hamburg reported: “Its horror is revealed

in the howling and raging of the firestorms, the hellish noise of

exploding bombs and the death cries of martyred human beings as

well as the big silence after the raids. Speech is impotent to

portray the measure of the horror, which shook the people for ten

days and nights and the traces of which were written indelibly on

the face of the city and its inhabitants. No flight of imagination

will ever succeed in measuring and describing the gruesome

scenes of horror in the many buried air raid shelters. Posterity can

only bow its head in honour of the fate of these innocents,

sacrificed by the murderous lust of a sadistic enemy.”

Martin Caidin is one of the world‟s leading authorities on military

science subjects. The high-ranking U.S. Government official was

an expert on bombing effects and author of many related books.

He described the bombing of Hamburg as: “Standing out as the

worst of the disasters visited upon civilisation during the insanity

of the Second World War.”4

As Germany‟s second largest city, Hamburg was a natural target

for allied bombing raids. The shame attached to Operation

Gomorrah was that it far exceeded that which was necessary to

paralyse the city‟s contribution to Germany‟s war effort.

Gomorrah was the code name given to the plan to incinerate

Hamburg in 1943.

Hamburg is a hanseatic city that straddles the River Alster

immortalised by music and in particular the Moonlight on the

Alster waltz. Perhaps the port city‟s most endearing feature was

its medieval half-timbered houses that before the war attracted

tourists from all over the world. Sadly, this medieval feature made

it attractive to the allied war lords. In their cynicism they reasoned

that such a city would burn easier and offer more potential

victims per square mile.

The method devised for the total destruction of Hamburg was

simple and extremely effective. The first waves of bombers would

release thousands of high-explosive bombs on the city. The effect

would be to keep the terrified population and especially the city‟s

fire service huddled in their shelters. The subsequent raids would

rain down the international condemned and illegal use of

magnesium and phosphorous bombs.

It has been estimated that during those ten days, Hamburg was

struck by 1,200 landmines, 30,000 heavy high-explosive bombs,

and 3,000,000 stick incendiary bombs. Also, the phosphorous

filled bomb was assuredly the most demonic weapon devised by

mankind; eighty thousands of these 100-pound phosphorous

bombs were dropped plus 500 phosphorous canisters and 500

phosphorous incendiaries. The affect that this type of weapon had

on civilians is one of the worst nightmares to emerge from the

World War Two as we shall later see. Hamburg, just one German

city during ten cataclysmic days suffered a loss of life comparable

to the combined total of lives lost in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the

two Japanese Christian cities that were delivered of the atomic

bomb.

~ THE FIRST BREACH OF INTERNATIONAL LAW ~ "This

raid on the night of May 11 1940, although in itself trivial, was an

epoch-marking event since it was the first deliberate breach of the

fundamental rule of civilised warfare that hostilities must only be

waged against the enemy combatant forces. Their flight marked

the end of an epoch which had lasted for two and one half

centuries.” ~ F. J. P Veale, Advance to Barbarism, p.172.

Most are aware of the tragedy of Dresden‟s incineration. Fewer

are aware of the comparable loss of life suffered by Hamburg.

Lost in the confusion the fate of the populations of Berlin,

Hamburg, Dortmund, Essen, Dresden, Frankfurt, Nuremberg,

Dusseldorf, Hanover, Bremen, Wuppertal, Vienna, and Duisburg.

Munich, Magdeburg, Leipzig, Mannheim, Stuttgart, Kiel,

Gelsenkirchen, Bochum, Aachen, Wurzburg, Darmstadt, Krefeld,

Munster, Munchen Gladbach, Braunschweig, Ludwigshafen,

Remscheid, Pforzheim, Osnabruck, Mainz, Bielefeld, Gieben,

Duren, Solingen, Wilhelmshaven, Karlsruhe, Oberhausen,

Heilbronn, Augsburg, Hamm, Knittelfeld, Luneburg, Cuxhaven,

Kulmback, Hagen, Saarbrucken, Freiburg, Graz, Koblenz, Ulm,

Bonn, Bremerhaven, Wanne-Eickel, Worms, Lubbock, Kassel,

Schweinfurt, Kleve, Wiener Neustadt, Wiesbaden, Paderborn,

Bocholt, Hanau, Hildesheim, Emden, Siegen, Pirmasons, Hale,

Bayreuth, Kreuznach, Witten, Aschaffenburg, Kaiserlautern,

Gladbeck, Dorsten, Innsbruck, Neumunster, Linz, Klagenfurt,

Reutlingen, Recklinghausen, Reuel, Regensburg, Holmberg,

Elmshorn, Wetzel, Villach, Hamelin, Konigsberg, Moers, Passau,

Solbad Hall I. T, Cobourg, Attnang-Puchheim, Friedrichshafen,

Frankfurt-Oder, Danzig, Bozen, Chemnitz, Rostock, Schwerte,

Plauen, Rome, Bad Kreuznach, Neapel, Genoa, Mailand, Turin.

"Kassel suffered over three hundred air raids, some carrying

waves of 1,000 bombers; British by night, American by day.

When on April, 4, 1945, Kassel surrendered, of a population of

250,000, just 15,000 were left alive." ~ Jack Bell, Chicago Daily

News Foreign Service, Kassel, May 15th 1946.

Posterity will find it difficult to find mass murder on a scale as

that carried out by Britain‟s RAF and the United States Air Force

(USAF) of World War Two.

CHAPTER TWO

THE CITY DIGS IN

The hidden holocaust: This is what a real holocaust looks like

"The primary purpose of these raids was to goad the Germans into

undertaking reprisal raids of a similar character on Britain. Such

raids would arouse intense indignation in Britain against Germany

and so create a war psychosis without which it would be

impossible to carry on a modern war." ~ Dennis Richards, the

Royal Air Force 1939 - 1945. The Fight at Odds. H. M Stationery

Office.

As might be expected of a German city no effort was spared to

make the city as safe as possible from air attack. Hamburg was

perhaps the best protected city in Europe from an air attack point

of view. The Police President of Hamburg wrote: “The fate of our

cities in the Ruhr district and on the Rhine was a warning. None

of the experience gained there was disregarded. The plainly

increasing intensity of the war in the air led to an acceleration of

tempo in the constant development of air protection measures

which finally reached the limit of possibility.”

Throughout the German city there was total mobilisation of all

resources and there was no shortage of volunteers. Men, women,

and even children worked ceaselessly to make their city safe from

potential attacks by Britain‟s RAF and America‟s USAF. Fire-

fighting equipment was kept in tip-top condition and was always

to hand. A massive air raid shelter construction program was

begun. The authorities assisted civilians in building air raid

shelters in homes and factories. The same authorities saw to it that

the city‟s hospitals, government buildings, schools, administrative

and police buildings were likewise catered for. Predicting

conditions in which every drop of water would be more precious

than gold itself a program was begun that would revolutionise the

entire water system in and around the city. All open waters were

requisitioned. At each of the city‟s harbour and canal systems

there were built special ramps, approaches and platforms to

enable easy access. Wherever possible all water storage systems

were built. Streams and rivers were dammed and all lakes and

ponds in the area were cleaned, enlarged and made deeper. Even

sewers were utilised for the piping of water to those areas that

were in need.

A British voice of humanity: "The third and last phase of the

British air offensive against Germany began in March 1942 with

the adoption of the Lindemann Plan by the British War Cabinet,

and continued with undiminished ferocity until the end of the war

in May, 1945.

The bombing during this period was not, as the Germans

complained, indiscriminate. On the contrary; it was concentrated

on working class houses because, as Professor Lindemann

maintained, a higher percentage of bloodshed per ton of

explosives dropped could be expected from bombing houses built

close together, rather than by bombing higher class houses

surrounded by gardens." ~ Advance to Barbarism, F. J. P Veale,

British Author and Jurist.

Nothing was overlooked. Swimming pools, rain water tanks,

industrial cooling tanks, wells, empty oil storage tanks; even the

water tanks in the laboratory of Hamburg‟s Experimental Ship

Construction Institute were used. If necessity is the father of

invention Hamburg‟s preparation was the proof of it.

When all such measures had been taken the mobilised city looked

to other ways and means by which water could be stored. The

cellars of two wrecked buildings were cleaned out and the shells

used as reservoirs. Seven thousand private wells were catalogued

and 52 private wells on industrial premises were linked to the

general system. Firms like oil companies, breweries which used

especially constructed fluid carrying vehicles were also utilised.

Rarely in the history of mankind has an entire population

mobilised to defend itself better than Hamburg‟s did.

No matter how small and seemingly insignificant nothing was

overlooked. All vital targets were camouflaged; smoke-screen

generators were placed where needed. All inflammable material

was removed unless it was absolutely necessary. All attics were

cleared of any material of an inflammable nature by lawful edict

and all homes were liable to spot checks to ensure that defensive

measures were being complied with. By the time that all possible

defensive measures had been completed it was impossible to

improve upon them. Hardly a single person, regardless of age or

sex, was not involved in some aspect of defence. The bombing

expert Martin Caidin wrote that civil defence training and

activities in the city of Hamburg attained an almost unbelievable

level of co-ordination and efficiency.

Typical Hamburg Air Shelter

The people of the city were mobilised as fire-watchers, air raid

wardens, rescue teams and voluntary firemen, labour gangs,

evacuation crews, medical teams and messengers. In addition to

those measures neighbourhood assistance programs were started

as were self-help groups. When the holocaust was to be visited

upon these people it could never be said that their idleness had

contributed to their tragedy.

In his official report the Police President of Hamburg wrote: “A

greater state of readiness in the Air Protection Service was not

possible. On the material side, bearing in mind existing

conditions, the limit had been reached. On the side of personnel

and organisation, not only had the legal regulations been fulfilled

and even surpassed, but among the entire Hamburg population

there was a readiness for defence and a spirit that was bound to

surmount any test. Difficulties of a bureaucratic nature, which in a

modern state, with a mass of necessary authorities as a rule are

unavoidable, practically did not arise in Hamburg. Collaboration

on all sides was so exemplary that at least one prerequisite for

successfully meeting the severest ordeal by fire was assured.”5

Throughout June of 1943 and halfway through July Hitler‟s

Germany withstood ceaseless and relentless waves of British and

American bombers. Throughout each day the skies over Germany

were darkened by U.S Air Force bombers. The night skies were

filled with Britain‟s RAF bombers. Little regard was paid to the

likely victims of bombs dropped indiscriminately. Indeed, the

allies had already decided that civilians including refugees were

not only legitimate targets but in some cases they were preferable

targets.

Typical pre-war German city. Of the four protagonists the only

legitimately elected government ~ one election and one plebiscite

(referendum) was that of the Workers Reich. Winston Churchill,

MP, parachuted into 10 Downing Street, was never in his life

elected to premiership. Soviet tyrant Josef Stalin never stood for

election in his life. Roosevelt afterwards admitted that his lie not

to involve the U.S in a European war narrowly won the election

for his party.

Prime Minister Chamberlain, before his being ousted by

Churchill‟s pro-war clique, had been quite adamant on the matter

of bombing civilians. He had said that such a policy “was

absolutely contrary to international law.” As elected Prime

Minister he had given the assurance that: “The British

Government would never resort to the deliberate attack on women

and children for purposes of mere terrorism.”

Winston Churchill had no such scruples. The unelected despot

was a party to the most appalling acts of mass murder which

included the aerial strafing of women and children refugees as

they fled from their burning cities or before the Red Army‟s

raping Asiatic hordes.6

"I am in full agreement (of terror bombing). I am all for

the bombing of working class areas in German cities. I am

a Cromwellian, I believe in 'slaying in the name of the

Lord!" ~ Sir. Archibald Sinclair, British RAF Secretary

for Air.

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