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What the Data cannot Show about the Allies’ Strategic Bombing

     Even though it is inevitable that wars cause casualties, World War II marks a very different sort of sacrifice since the battlefields no longer only exist on the front; they are everywhere, especially when the weapon is a bomb. That is why there are so many debates regarding the moral aspects of the Allies’ bombing missions, especially in the later years of the war when targets turn into cities and urban areas. The total death results in the bombing are around 600,000 German civilians and around 70,000 are children with around 140,000 Allied casualties (Hopkins 31).

      Although the dataset can show the actual damages, it is difficult to assess the psychological impacts bombings have on the German people. In the final years of the Allied bombing when the aim is to destroy the morale of the people, such as “Operation Thunderclap”: “The basic principle of true morale bombing, was to provoke a state of terror by air attack. [In order to] cause confusion in the evacuation from the east” (The Physical and Cultural 
Destruction of Germany). The word “evacuation” does not refer to the troops, rather the civilians suffer from the bombings that are trying to move to safer places. 
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    However, does the morale bombing really increase the speed of Germany’s surrender, since it causes horror among the people? In a poll conducts in 1944, Office of Public Opinion Research ask the Americans “Is it your impression that the Allied bombing of Germany has increased or decreased the fighting spirit of the German people?” 47% response decrease, while 26% response increase. Surprisingly, German people’s reactions might be different than what the Allies imagine. Since 1940, the Allies are already thinking of ways to decrease Germany’s morale; they hope the destructions on economy and security will prompt the people to push back against the Nazi regime. Although there are indeed some resistances, the people find that they can only rely on the Nazi regime for safety and resources during and after the bombings of the cities, therefore in general, morale bombing does not actually turn the people against the Nazi regime, in a way, it actually strengthens it. The civilians begin to form a tighter bond with each other, and take in friends and family members who lose their homes during the raids (Did the Allied Bombing Increase Germans Fighting Spirit?).