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His bio of Kim Philby is pretty great too. Don't miss it, if you haven't
read it already.
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Sorry to keep coming back.
My only disagreement with the article is that British
reporters didn't actually invent the Boer war atrocity
stories of their own accord - they were carefully cued
by the Colonial Office. Lord Milner, the instigator of
the war and connected to the Liberal Party, knew quite
well the opposition to the whole thing in the Liberal
Party back home.
It's an incredible article for June 1999, which i had
missed,
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
>
>
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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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