(Marrin 209) Thousands of fires blazed at once and joined into one, drawing cool air in creating an air current with the force of a huge hurricane. (Marrin 209) Trees were uprooted and people were hurled to their death. It was the first man-made firestorm. The city of Hamburg became a giant furnace reaching temperatures of 1000 degrees Fahrenheit. 43,000 people were dead and hundreds of thousands were left without shelter. (Marrin 209) Panic swept through the Third Reich. People in large towns began to wonder, "What happened in Hamburg can happen to us tomorrow." (Marrin 210) .
There were no defenses built against the Allied air force, and so they could bomb as they pleased without worry of being shot down. The damage done by the bombing forced the Nazi party to spend time repairing the damage done by the never ending assault. Hitler overlooked the protection from air attacks and it hurt Germany severely. .
Hitler had his own essentials of airborne war machines called the Luftwaffe. They had much success in the war but faults in the model used in the Battle of Britain prevented Hitler from doing as much damage to London as he had hoped. .
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Hitler made the mistake when he used small, light, two engine powered airplanes which carried small bombs used only to quickly clear paths for Panzers. (Marrin 207) If the planes would have been bigger like the American four engine Flying Fortress, B-24 Liberator, British Lancaster or Sterling, built especially for bombing cities, (Marrin 207) the Germans would have been able to drop much larger bombs that could wipe out over one city block. .
The larger more destructive bombs would have enabled Hitler to crush the capital city of Britain using his terror bombing techniques. He would have won the war over a country which played the biggest role against Germany.
Fighting the opposition cost a countless amount of men. The army made up a huge portion of the German people.