2 May 2018

The Firebombing of German Cities - Culpability and Futility

From Nights, 9:25 pm on 2 May 2018

The Firebombing of German Cities - Culpability and Futility

Dresden, Teilansicht des zerstörten Stadtzentrums über die Elbe nach der Neustadt. In der Bildmitte der Neumarkt und die Ruine der Frauenkirche.

Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1994-041-07 / Unknown / CC-BY-SA 3.0 [CC BY-SA 3.0 de (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/deed.en)], via Wikimedia Commons

Anglican priest, Raymond Pelly was a young boy in London during the blitz and he joins us to talk about the impact and ethics of the allied bombing campaign against German cities during the second world war.