Battlefield: Air War Over Germany
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Artist: Artist Not ProvidedDVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-11
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Cromwell Productions
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DVD Review: Good documentary but not perfect.
Summary: 3 Stars
This video is a decent overview of the topic of the RAF & USAAF offensive against Germany during WWII.
The video does not put enough emphasis on the prewar ideology of the strategic bombing cult and the influence of untried theories espoused by men such as Douhet postulating that bombing from the air could win wars without the need to engage in the kind of ground war of WWI that horrified so many in the West. Faith in strategic bombing, like any ideology, caused its adherents to continue the same policies despite overwhelming evidence they were counterproductive.
RAF Bomber Command simply decided to murder (there's no way to sugar-coat it) as many German civilians as possible in an attempt to destroy "morale" of the German people. They continued to do so long after their own intelligence had proven that the Germans were producing more weapons and munitions even as bombing became more severe.
The RAF deliberately chose target cities that were older, hence had more wood buildings, so the civilian death toll would be higher. Attacks continued even after Germany was clearly collapsing and no longer had any capacity to fight back. Dresden was a city that had absolutely no military value, yet was subject of several days of bombing that killed 135,000 civilians in the last few weeks of the war.
The USAAF's own ideology that self-defending, heavily-armed, heavy bombers could enter enemy airspace, deliver pinpoint bombing attacks and return with low losses was shattered by not one, but two disasterous raids on Schweinfurt. Then, they realized that the long-range escort fighters they disparaged as "unnecessary" during the interwar years were indeed necessary.
The video itself claims that strategic bombing was an important weapon in the defeat of Germany in WWII. Considering the 115,000 KIA's incurred (not including the POW's and WIA's invalided out) by Bomber Command, the 8th and 15th Air Forces, the massive amount of resources used to build and supply the massive fleets of heavy bombers, and the manpower (the cream of the crop of the pool) required to crew, maintain, and supply them, any intelligent observer must question this.
The video does a lot of things fairly well such as the tactics used by Bomber Command, the USAAF and the Luftwaffe, technology used in attack and defense, the weapons used by the opposing forces. It spends entirely too much time on bios of the commanders - including Churchill, Roosevelt and Hitler - that were simply irrelevant to the subject of the video.
Another reviewer has stated that this video is "political" and "revisionist". I would remind said reviewer that the most-bombed country in history is Vietnam. That bombing campaign contributed nothing to the successful accomplishment of the war aims of the U.S. in that conflict.
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