"We have built up a defense force superior to any other in the world. . . . The German people . . . can go about their business with perfect tranquility. Their frontiers are guarded by the best Army in the history of Germany, the air above is protected by the most powerful Air Fleet, and their coasts are rendered unassailable by any enemy power."
Last week sardonic Berliners wryly remembered these Hitlerian promises, as waves of British bombers roared in from the west, shuttled across the capital. This was no skimpy hit-&-run attack. For nearly five...
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