SKILMATIC said:
Well if it wasnt for those bombs your precious fuhrer would have continued the manslaughter. Peoples actions have consequences especially if they are a leader of a country. His actions affected you and your family directly. However, if we didnt use such actions we would have never been able to break the german defensives. Or maybe you would rather have a whole society wiped off the face of the earth?
I don't know. From the texts I have, they imply that the mass bombings weren't all that effective. They were an annoyance and slowed things down, but they didn't really cut production all that much. I will look up the figures again very soon to provide the per centages they assigned.
Most of the texts I have consulted on this issue state that the effects of massed city bombings had little real impact. IN the short run, it did have a moral bonus for the allies and penality for the axis, but in the long run, that did not defeat the Germans or stop them from producing or working. In some cases, it did, but not all, for there were instances of people deserting their posts and jobs, or taking long, extent holidays. However, these problems can also be attributed to the long hours, little pay, and great stress placed upon works to work fast and hard, according to "Inside Hitler's Germany."
According to my texts, even when the cities were bombed, the factories were quickly rebuilt and refurbished, or they went underground entirely, which did slow down production some, but nothing serious. The true failings of the German Industry were intrinsic to the ideology of Nazism as well as the economic leadershiop. More so than bombs, the total lack of qualified workers (they made a lot of use of wasteful slave labour in place of real, qualified citizens, especially since most of the men went off in the military). For the longest time, they were hesitant to employ women, because it conflicted with the ideology; even during war they didn't make near the use the allies did of women. Further, the Nazi industry tended to make a lot of use of the occupied territories' citizens, which hampered their production.
Out of everything, the things that seemed to have the least real impact were the mass air bombings.