| > though hundreds of thousands died of starvation and exposure in 1946/47 "More than nine million Germans died as a result of Allied
starvation and expulsion policies in the first five years after
the Second World War-a total far in excess of the figures
actually reported." -- "Crimes & Mercies" by James Bacque
The book is controversial, but you should be aware of it.> I'm not sure how that jives with your whole free market thing The free market thing started around 1950. > Germany in the fifties wasn't the libertarian utopia you make it out to be, so that's probably why people died The deaths were before 1950. As for libertarian utopia, I never said that. I said it was the free market that enabled Germany to rise from utter devastation to be the dominant economic power in Europe in just 20 years. As for Dresden, it was a civilian target, not an industrial one. The US usually targeted industry. It also did not participate in the German Miracle, because it was in the Soviet sector. Lastly, the German bombing of England was concentrated on London civilian targets, not industrial targets, and it didn't impact infrastructure and industry much. The Luftwaffe also could only reach a small fraction of England, most of the industry was safely out of range. The British went hungry during the war, but they didn't starve. For reference, the series of Impact books gives a good overview of the effect of the bombing campaigns on Germany and Japan. https://www.amazon.com/Impact-Forces-Confidential-Picture-Hi... More: "Bomber Harris and the Strategic Bombing Offensive" by Charles Messenger "Gruesome Harvest" by Ralph Franklin Keeling "Maximum Effort the B-29s against Japan" by Kevin Herbert "Target Germany" US Army Air Force A bit of caution: these are not nice books. |