Wir haben unsere Bomben gerade dortin geschmissen wo wir sie haben wollten. ("We dropped our bombs just where we intended to.") Thus Captain Schumann of the Luftwaffe described for German radio listeners the daytime air attack on London last week. Perhaps Captain Schumann did not know when he made his boast that 42 children (aged six to 16) and six teachers had been killed by a bomb which crashed through the roof of a four-story schoolhouse.
The raid, small in comparison with day & night attacks on England in 1940 and 1941, was...
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