The Blitz

The Blitz (from German meaning "lightning"), sometimes wrongly named "The Battle of Britain", was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom in 1940 and 1941 during the Second World War in response to British bombings of German cities.

See Claimed mass killings of Germans by the WWII Allies and Bombing of Germany during World War II on topics such as the German bombings being on a far smaller scale than the Allied bombings of Germany, and Churchill being the first to bomb cities, so as to cause a German bombing retaliation in order to increase public support for the war.

External links

• How Britain Pioneered City Bombing
• Bombs on Britain

Article archives

• Bombing + Air Raid Defense

Sources

• "The Battle of Britain" by Denis Richards, in Purnell's History of the Second World War, editor-in-chief, Sir Basil Liddell Hart, BPC Publishing Ltd/House of Grolier Ltd., Hatfield, U.K., vol.3, pps:223-244.