Miniscule ? Well, maybe....

Interesting see what one or two other people have said about the bombing offensive, though.

'..It may well be that the estimated loss of 9 percent of our production capacity was amply balanced by our increased effort.
Our heaviest expense was in fact the elaborate defensive measures. In the Reich and in the western theatres of war the barrels of ten thousand antiaircraft guns pointed toward the sky. The same guns could well have been employed in Russia.. Had it not been for the air front over Germany, our defensive strength against tanks would have been doubled... Moreover, the antiaircraft force tied down hundreds of thousands of young soldiers. A third of the optical industry was busy producing gunsights for the flak batteries. About half of the electronics industry was engaged in producing radar and communications networks for defence against bombing.... the supply of our frontline troops with modern equipment remained far behind that of the Western armies..a serious shortage of army communications equipment developed.. further development of such devices ( as walkie-talkies and sound-ranging artillery apparatus ) had to be neglected in favour of antiaircraft weaponry'

Speer : Inside The Third Reich pp278/279

''...the air situation should be considered one of the most critical phases of the war...'

Goebbels : Diaries May 28 1943

Bombing in the 1940's was undeniably a crude and blunt instrument but one can be entitled to wonder what Germany could have 'achieved' if strategic bombing hadn't happened at all....

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