Destroying Hitler’s Berghof Canadian Military （破坏了希特勒的伯格霍夫别墅加拿大军队）.pdfVIP

Destroying Hitler’s Berghof The Bomber Command Raid of 25 April 1945 Oliver Haller Introduction A large force of Avro Lancaster Abstract: This paper examines the heavy bombers and DeHavilland dolf Hitler celebrated his final Royal Air Force raid on Adolf Hitler’s Mosquito light bombers left England Berghof on the Obersalzberg in Abirthday in a concrete crypt April 1945. Arthur Harris, the head to attack Hitler’s mountain retreat in at the end of April 1945. The reach of Bomber Command, wanted to Obersalzberg near Berchtesgaden. of enemy firepower had forced emphasize air power’s decisive His Berghof represented one of the him underground to escape an role in the defeat of Nazism. most evocative symbols of Nazism approaching firestorm that had been However, Winston Churchill and and of the international community’s Bernard Montgomer y, among fuelled by years of hatred, suffering others, questioned the usefulness failure to grasp opportunities to stop and death. Soviet artillery was well of destroying Berchtesgaden so Hitler prior to German rearmament. within range of the city and the shells late in the war. Unlike traditional Journalists revelled in the payback of over 40,000 guns began further explanations that focus on post- – even if belated – of the Berghof’s reduci