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Originally Posted by White Flight
Who pursued bombing civilian targets in Europe?
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it should be noted that the first bombing of a German town during WW2 in which civilians were killed was on the 10 May 1940. When a number of
Luftwaffe aircraft bombed the German town of Freiburg by mistake, killing 57 people. In overcast weather the crews thought they were over the French town of Dijon. The fragments of the bombs found later, confirmed the bombs as German, but German propaganda claimed the raid to be a terror attack by the French Air Force, justifying subsequent bombing of French towns.