Germans Intentions When Bombing Britian's Major Cities From 1940-1949

Germans Intentions When Bombing Britian's Major Cities From 1940-1949

The Second World War began at 11am on the 3rd September 1939, to many

the outbreak of war was unsurprising as it had been apparent that a

war was on its way since the previous year in September 1938, due to

the fact that war had almost broke out during the Munich crisis and as

Hitler became more and more demanding.

There are many causes of the war, however the main and the most

apparent cause was the treaty of Versailles, as many people believed

that the Treaty of Versailles had been extremely unfair and overly

harsh on the Germans. Hitler was one such person; he believed that the

Germans had been unfairly treated and that he must right the

wrongdoing of the treaty of Versailles. For example Hitler, had begun

to break the treaty, such as putting his soldiers in the Rhineland,

rebuilding his army and not paying the reparations that were crippling

Germany’s economy. Although these things were done secretly at first,

when France and Britain discovered that Germany had in fact been

breaking the treaty they agreed that the treaty had been overly harsh

on Germany, and decided to follow their policy of appeasement in the

hope of avoiding another war. However this was a failure of the League

of Nations, as in an attempt to avoid future wars they ended up

provoking one, as this meant that Germany was allowed to keep breaking

the treaty unimpeded, and the policy of appeasement had failed as the

logic behind it was incorrect, as they believed that if they let

Germany break the treaty and undo the particularly harsh points of the

treaty, they would be satisfied. Howeve...

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... on London, Britain was caught

completely off-guard, this allowed Hitler to carefully choose his

targets, so he could destroy major points of industry or even to

destroy transport, so he got a free chance to attack the London Docks,

the Woolwich Arsenal and armament factories in Silver town. The result

of this first attack was 430 Londoners dead and 1600 people were

injured. This was devastating and brought great fear and upheaval n

the country.

So the main cities of Britain were bombed originally to destroy the

RAF and weaken the British air force substantially, however after

Operation Sea Lion was scrapped the bombings became an attempt to

achieve three main goals, to destroy British transport, destroy

British industry and to break the morale of the British people by

performing night time terror bombings.