let'em eat amotal

[Dennis Jones]

        I had an idea, and am glad in a way, that citing a person like David 
Irving as a source would provoke a reaction. Truth is I've heard this 
particular Enigma story elsewhere(help) enough times to suspect there might 
be some substance to it, but Irving's was the only name and title I could 
bring to mind.*
        Am I not right in thinking that the V2 was intended (and was by all 
accounts extremely effective) primarily as a morale breaking terror weapon 
designed to strike at the very heart of the cities targetted, by virtue of 
its out-of-the-blue-bang-next-time-you effect, rather than as a strategic 
weapon in the accepted sense of the term at the time? This was quite a 
different matter to the Luftwaffe's earlier selective bombing of docklands 
and other strategic industrial sites. And as a revenge weapon, the rocket  
was of course also seen, as were the Baedecker raids on soft target heritage 
cities like Canterbury, as a reply to the violation of Lubeck and Dresden. 
Given the level of outrage expressed on both sides by such deliberate, 
vandalic breaking of the rules of the game, can we really express disbelief 
at the suggestion that those wielding the poison pens should quietly choose 
to put heritage before humans when the choice was presented to them?
                           d.j.

P.S.  Well remember listening to Irving some years back on BBC radio's 'In 
the Psychiatrist's Chair' trying to sound like a reasonable fellow. Skin 
crawling stuff. Wasn't he accused at one time of distributing 'lists' of 
Jewish businesses or some such? 
 * Does a book with a yellow cover and a title something like 'The Battle of 
the V-weapons' mean anything to anyone?