Nazis Believed Bombing Cities Would End Resistance — Production Actually Increased
Автор: WW2 Recode
Загружено: 2026-01-25
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When Hitler ordered the Blitz, the Luftwaffe was convinced that terror and destruction would break Britain's will. Hermann Göring promised that if a single enemy bomb fell on the Ruhr, they could call him Meier. But what actually happened defied every calculation in the German military playbook.
Over eight months of relentless bombing—57 consecutive nights over London, the complete destruction of Coventry, countless factories reduced to rubble—Britain's aircraft manufacturing didn't fail. It thrived. Spitfire production continued from 42 separate dispersed locations. Rolls-Royce Merlin engines were built in Derby, Glasgow, and multiple shadow factories. Workers slept in shelters and worked longer hours. Factory managers rebuilt damaged plants in weeks, not months.
The German strategy was based on a catastrophic misunderstanding: that destroying buildings meant destroying production. They didn't account for dispersal, resilience, or the human determination of a nation fighting for survival.
This is the story of how bombing intended to break resistance instead revealed the principles of industrial warfare that would ultimately defeat Nazi Germany.
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