2010-12-30
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“ It’s right and proper that we commemorate the valour and bravery as well as the suffering that went on in Britain in 1940, but it’s unthinkable that Germans would be having a conversation like this about the bombing of their cities, because the scale was colossal compared with what happened here - half a million civilians killed from the bombing… What people remember there is the horror of it all, the nightly terror of the bombing. You can’t look back on that and think how brave the population were, or what courageous Blitz spirit there was. People remember the suffering, and the deaths and the devastation. ”
Ian Kershaw, responding to the question “Do Germans invoke their own Blitz spirit?”, in the BBC News article Did the Blitz really unify Britain?
