World Battlefronts: MEN AT WAR: Close to Bloodshed

A group of British parachutists, taken prisoner by the Germans, lost no time getting into a brisk argument with their captors—not about the ideology of the war, or about peace aims, but about who started the bombing of cities. Was it the Luftwaffe, by bombing Coventry and London, or the R.A.F., by bombing German cities?

A 22-year-old Briton escaped and reported: "We all got pretty worked up about it and there would've been a general fist fight if some German officers hadn't come along and ordered us taken away."

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