German Cities destroyed from the air

  COLOGNE CATHEDRAL STANDS AMONGST THE

BOMBED SCARRED RUINS OF THE CITY 

September 6 1942 " The British have no conception of chivalry in war. It is essential that we should give them as good as we get........ the hanging of half a dozen British generals would shake them. They are realists, devoid of any scruple and cold as ice. It was the British who started air attacks. For four months we held our hand. The German is always restrained by moral scruples "

August 28 1942 " Some German towns must be protected at all costs, Weimar, Nuremberg, Stuttgart. Factories can always be rebuilt but works of art are irreplaceable "

December 12 1942 " It caused bad blood here at the beginning of the war and a few times thereafter, when on the basis of Air Force reports it was announced that there would had been very small damage when actually there had been great damage. It was especially shameless in Cologne. It is easier to bear the most brutal truth than an embellished picture which does not correspond to the truth "

July 25 1943 " Terror can only be broken by terror. That they attack airfields moves me little. But if they smash our cities in the Ruhr..... I can only win the war if I destroy more of the enemy's cities than he does ours, by teaching him the terrors of war "