Heine: "Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen."


As for the Baker book "Human Smoke" I find it remarkable that he thinks he's proving the war unnecessary and titling the book with the unique image of the product of that war that broke new ground in horror and inhumanity, thus justifying it in terms I have heard not only in the United States, not only in Great Britain, but also in Germany.

Three weekends ago a CBC writer's forum discussed the book, and I'm going to have a go at it. One must read disagreeable things sometimes.

As for the tedious "who bombed who" back and forth, with all the Anglos on this site and in this forum, can't believe you're leaving out the obvious:

14 November 1940: Coventry