Creating Hitlers Germany THe Birth Of Extremism – Tim Heath (1)

I replied, ‘Well, that’s your opinion, Heinz, and you are entitled to it, but I disagree.’ I carefully grasped his hand, shook it and then I left him at the cemetery. That was the last contact I ever had with him. Heinz Mollenbrock died peacefully at his home near Kiel, Germany, in December 2007. All that is left now are the group of letters and pieces of correspondence that he sent me over the few years we were in contact.

With Hitler’s insistence that the Luftwaffe attack London, the tactical advantage was unwittingly lost. It would prove to be a major error of judgement. Without securing air superiority of the skies over southern Britain, the proposed German seaborne invasion could not go ahead. Operation Sea Lion was cancelled indefinitely. It was, in a sense, Germany’s first defeat of the Second World War. As the Battle of Britain reached its conclusion, a new battle would begin; one that would take terror to new levels.

It would be indiscriminate and everyone, men, women and children, would be in the front line. On 7 September 1940 the Luftwaffe’s bombing campaign against British cities began. Joyce Smith recalled that fateful day: That day the Germans changed tack, didn’t they? They stopped hitting the RAF and turned to bombing our cities.

I had a relative who had been at Biggin Hill, the RAF airfield. He said they’d had a terrible time of it and had been hit really bad. So in a way, I knew even as a child what to expect. The first attack on London came on 7 September. From that point on my family of my brother, mother and father had a well-rehearsed routine every time the air raid siren went off.

We just went into our kitchen and got under the large, heavy kitchen table. That table was solid as anything and had belonged to my grandmother. We had an Anderson Shelter in the garden, but it was bloody cold in those things and the damp made your clothes wet and they were just uncomfortable, so we stayed in the house under the table. The raid of the 7 September didn’t affect us at all, though it was pretty noisy with all those German bombers overhead and the ‘ack, ack’ guns firing away at them.

The shrapnel from the exploding ‘ack, ack’ shells would fall from the sky and you could hear them hit the tin roof out the back; it used to make a hell of a racket.

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At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them. OceanofPDF.com C Introduction reating Hitler’s Germany was not written with the intention of producing a chronological analysis of Germany throughout its most troubled, if not darkest, period in its history but to try and understand what social and political factors influenced its aggression through the earlier part of the twentieth century.

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