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I believe there was some attempts at stopping the bombings of Germans cities
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I know the Germans, by 1943, were anxious to put a stop to the bombing. But as they were on the receiving end by then, that's only natural. As JM Speight said:
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As it was he [Hitler] chose to set a precedent for the bombing of
centres of population in this war at its very outset and thereby prejudiced his position as
the advocate of the mutual abandonment by the belligerents of the practice of strategic
bombing. In short, it was he who really began the battles of the towns. He is probably
very sorry now that he ever did so.
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But I'm not aware the allies gave any serious consideration to stopping the bombing until the last few months of the war, when it was winding down anyway.
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since most were void of military targets
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The USAAF defined a military target as:
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No towns or cities in Germany will be attacked
as secondary or last resort targets, targets of
opportunity, or otherwise, unless such towns contain
or have immediately adjacent to them, one (1)
or more military objectives. Military objectives
include railway lines; junctions; marshalling yards;
railway or road bridges, or other communications
networks; any industrial plant; and such obvious
military objectives as oil storage tanks, military
camps and barracks, troop concentrations, motor
transport or AFV parks, ordnance or supply
depots, ammunition depots; airfields; etc.
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It has been determined that towns and cities
large enough to produce an identifiable return on
the H2X scope generally contain a large proportion
of the military objectives listed above. These centers,
therefore, may be attacked as secondary or
last resort targets through the overcast bombing
technique
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Richard G Davis, one of the USAF's official historians, notes:
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Almost every city or town in Germany with a population
exceeding 50,000, and a few below that
figure, met the foregoing criteria. This policy made
it open season for bombing Germany’s major cities
in any weather.
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That might sound cynical, but it's largely true. Cities are centres of manufacturing, distribution and communications. By 1943 Germany was switching as much as possible to a war economy. Cities are concentrations tens or hundreds of thousands of people. None of them could simply opt out of the war effort.
Nowhere in Germany was there a city of tens of thousands all comfortably going about pre war business. All were churning out material for the war effort as fast as possible. If a city was too small to have a tank or aircraft factory, it still made sub assemblies that went in to those tanks and aircraft and rifles and guns.