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Posted Sunday, February 15, 2004

SHAEF, General Eisenhower's headquarters moves to prevent word leaking out about deliberate Anglo-American violations of international law

From the Daniel Lerner (Psychological Warfare) papers in the Manuscript Division, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University, California: Box 35: "SHAEF, Other Branches"

 

CONFIDENTIAL

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE
COMBINED FIELD PRESS CENSORSHIP GROUP (REAR)
APO 413, U.S. ARMY

18 February 1945
1300 Hours

Press Censors' Guidance No. 824
(Paris PCG #267 -- 18 February)

 

"TERROR" BOMBING OF GERMAN CITIES

1. An A.P. story to the effect that the Allied Air Command has taken a decision to carry out "Terror" bombing of German cities so as to create a refugee problem and further congestion of communication centers was passed tonight in error.

2. Censors are advised that this story is wholly erroneous and should not have been passed. Allied policy is to bomb military objectives and those only until the war is won; if a refugee problem is caused thereby, this is an incidental difficulty with which the enemy has to deal. Censors will be guided accordingly.

AUTHORITY: Lt Col Merrick

RMH

 

CONFIDENTIAL

 


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Index to this dossier on Allied bombing strategy
The A.P. story was of a communiqué released by British Air Commodore Grierson at SHAEF headquarters; it was true. See David Irving, Apocalypse '45: The Destruction of Dresden (Focal Point, London). The US Eighth Air Force target maps for Dresden have been released and show that the Americans too had been instructed to attack the city center, not the marshalling yards, as conformist USAAF historians claimed for over fifty years.
David Irving: Apocalypse 1945: the Destruction of Dresden (free download)
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