Though even the most progressive historians generally regard the Allied tactics in the Second World War as just, fair and necessary, the German man-of-letters Joerg Friedrich argued otherwise in his revisionist historical tome The Inferno - a bestseller in Germany. The book reopens the chapter of WWII that pertains to the Allied air-raid bombings on German metropolises as the European campaign neared closure, and argues that the assaults entailed cruel and purposeless acts of vengeance. This documentary - a loose ...
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Though even the most progressive historians generally regard the Allied tactics in the Second World War as just, fair and necessary, the German man-of-letters Joerg Friedrich argued otherwise in his revisionist historical tome The Inferno - a bestseller in Germany. The book reopens the chapter of WWII that pertains to the Allied air-raid bombings on German metropolises as the European campaign neared closure, and argues that the assaults entailed cruel and purposeless acts of vengeance. This documentary - a loose cinematization of Friedrich's book directed by Spiegel TV correspondent Michael Kloft - essentially makes the same point, by charting the trajectory of the air campaign per se , with footage that intercuts archival film, and interviews with civilian survivors and Allied veterans. The film wraps with an open-ended debate between Friedrich and English history expert Richard Overy. Nathan Southern, Rovi
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