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Yup,
We really did well in the Boer War as well, and in the
run-up to the Spanish-American war, the British
unofficially "advising" as part of an informal deal
with the Americans brokered by Theodore Rooseveldt,
the secretary of the navy,
RR.
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> Richard,
>
> "Refined" is a good way to put it, lest we overlook
> the British media's
> considerable achievements in mendacity during the
> Boer War, mentioned by
> Phillip Knightley in "Propaganda Wars."
> (http://mujweb.atlas.cz/www/kutija/phknight.htm)
>
> jy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Roper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 5:20 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: SCHRECKLICHKEIT [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
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>
> Just three comments;-
>
> The British invented, or rather refined Atrocity
> propaganda in Aug. 1914, the Belgium Atrocity
> Stories
> being classics of the genre.
>
> Northcliffe had formed his Political Warfare
> Department ( pyschological warefare) for just such
> at
> task.
> It was crucial in order to get british public
> opinion
> to accept the war. People don't realise Britain very
> nearly remaining neutral and the Liberal Party,
> (Liberal government at time) essentially being
> Isolationist
> Also to get America into the war.
> Incidently Big Bertha was not built until two years
> later, and the story was they burnt down the Louvain
> medieval library.
>
> There are the gravest grounds to suspect the
> American
> bombing of Belgrade in April 1944, to get rid of
> Partisan prisoners held by the Germans and frighten
> the inhabitants. THe American OSS. still clung to
> the
> scheme of putting Mihailovic and his Partisans in
> power, after the British had dumped them. certainly
> it
> was no accident.
>
> Dresden was intended to be the target for the BOMB,
> it
> but wasn't ready in time. It wasn't intended for
> Japan
> at all, but for Germany.
> But conventional Strategic Bombing was meant to show
> the Russians to watch out at the Peace Conference.
>
> RR.
>
> --- Francisco Javier Bernal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
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> >
> >
> >
> > Mass Murder: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Urban Bombing
> >
> > Bob Petrovich
> >
> >
> > War is hell and Hitler started it. He persuaded
> his
> > followers that their
> >
> > "moral superiority"
> > excuse them from being human and having mercy
> > towards their victims.
> > Almost 60 years later, we struggle to answer the
> > question: was it the
> > universal crime or
> > it is crime only because Hitler lost the war?
> >
> > SCHRECKLICHKEIT - Nazi way
> >
> > Schrecklichkeit (frightfulness) - an instrument of
> > the German invasion
> > of
> > Belgium and France,
> > intended to disarm or destroy any civilian
> > resistance.
> >
> > "Since speed was of the essence,
> > no civilian harassment or irregular warfare
> > would be tolerated by the Germans.
> > They used heavy artillery,
> > including the siege gun 'Big Bertha'
> > . . . on the town centre of the city of Louvain;
> > they shot hostages; burnt villages,
> > and when women were raped by German soldiers,
> > their commanders did little about it"
> >
> > Winter and Baggett's The Great War and the Shaping
> > of the 20th Century ,
> > p. 67
> >
> >
> >
> > SCHRECKLICHKEIT , "we'll meet again" way
> >
> > "We'll meet again,
> > Don't know where,
> > Don't know when,
> > But I know
> > We'll meet again
> > Some sunny day."
> > -Vera Lynn, singer, 1942
> >
> > When Winston Churchill became Prime Minister May
> 10
> > 1940, he appointed
> > Frederick Alexander Lindemann as his adviser. Soon
> > Lindemann air
> > doctrine
> > followed, an adaptation of ideas of Italian
> fascist
> > general Giulio
> > Douhet.
> > The crown jewel of Lindemann doctrine is
> > fan-patterned firebombing of
> > Dresden. (Firebombing is newspeak for achieving
> > effects of atomic bomb
> > by
> > conventional explosives.) Dresden had no industry.
> > It was cultural
> > center
> > protected by treaty between Germans and Britons.
> >
> > Air Marshall "Bomber" Harris summed it up:
> >
> > "Whenever the fact that our aircraft
> OCCASIONALLY
> > (emphasis BP)
> > killed women and children is cast in my teeth I
> > always produce this
> > example of the blockade, although there are
> > endless others
> > to be got from the wars of the past. "
> >
> > Up to 2 million German civilians were killed
> > "occasionally" in British
> > area
> > bombing and American "precision bombing" of German
> > cities.
> >
> > "They reaped what they sow" one may rightfully
> say.
> > But what about
> > others?
> >
> > Civilians in occupied Europe were also
> > "occasionally" targeted,
> > especially
> > on Christian religious holidays.
> > They were bombed, although they did not follow
> > Hitler's murderous path,
> > even when fought against Hitler and were
> > recognized as allies.
> > During only one such air raid, USAAF air raid on
> > Belgrade, (Orthodox
> > Easter
> > Sunday, April 16 1944)
> > more than 2000 Serbian civilians were killed.
> Two
> > times more than
> > Luftwaffe killed in Rotterdam,
> > 4 times more than Luftwaffe killed in Coventry.
> > Damage to German
> > occupying
> > forces was insignificant.
> >
> > USAF boasted that U.S. bombers equipped with the
> > "top secret" Norden
> > bomb
> > sight
> > could drop a bomb "into a pickle barrel."
> >
> > What happened? Official USAAF history explains
> that
> > Belgrade residential
> >
> > quarters were bombed
> > by navigational error. But it does not explain why
>
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