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    Dehousing was a strategy adopted by the British against the Germans during World War II. It sought to maximize the damage to civilian housing. The strategy...
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    response to the concerns raised by the Butt report, Cherwell produced his dehousing paper (first circulated on 30 March 1942), which proposed that by area...
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    bombings of Germany in World War II on per city basis. Arson Dahiya doctrine Dehousing Dignity taking Dispossession, oppression, and depression Ethnic cleansing...
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    averaging 40,000 people per week dehoused in September 1940. In March 1941, two raids on Plymouth and London dehoused 148,000 people. Still, while heavily...
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    be called by its proper name: state terrorism." Collective punishment Dehousing Dignity taking Dispossession, oppression, and depression Domicide Ethnic...
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    (1941) RAF strategic bombing 1942–1945 Area Bombing Directive (1942) Dehousing paper (1942) Casablanca directive (1943) Leaders Arthur "Bomber" Harris...
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    October 2014. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (1995). "Editor's Note: Dehousing". The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 51 (3): 2. doi:10.1080/00963402...
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  • bombing directive on 12 February 1942, Lindemann presented in a paper on "Dehousing" to Churchill on 30 March 1942, which calculated the effects of area bombardment...
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    from the United States). It was the weapon of choice for the British "dehousing" plan. The bomb consisted of a hollow body made from aluminium-magnesium...
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    to resist (by which I mean morale). In the end, thanks in part to the dehousing paper, it was this view which prevailed and Bomber Command would remain...
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    production and reconstruction critical to the automotive industry, but also to dehouse workers. In the area of operations of Luftflotte 2 were two other armament...
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    (1941) RAF strategic bombing 1942–1945 Area Bombing Directive (1942) Dehousing paper (1942) Casablanca directive (1943) Leaders Arthur "Bomber" Harris...
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  • Hampshire in 1959. His papers are kept at the Imperial War Museum, London. Dehousing "No. 13630". The Edinburgh Gazette. 7 September 1920. p. 2003. "No. 33260"...
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    1980s the social problem of dehousing had emerged in which people who were previously housed started to experience dehousing. During 1987, the International...
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    wrote that Hansell "won the war". Big Wing, British fighter doctrine Dehousing, British area bombardment doctrine General Curtis LeMay. the USAAF's counterpart...
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    400 buildings, of which more than 7,700 were completely destroyed, thus dehousing more than 50,000 people. The first major raid on Saarbrücken was undertaken...
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    Bombing of Dresden Bombing of Tokyo Collective punishment Dahiya doctrine Dehousing Domicide Drone warfare Genocide Indiscriminate attack List of engagements...
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    to be maintained. As the air war against Germany increased from 1943, "dehousing" German workers became an objective of the Allied area bombing campaign...
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    emotion. During the war he criticised the assumptions in Lord Cherwell's dehousing paper and sided with Tizard who argued that fewer resources should go...
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  • "dehousing paper" to have worked out a precise formula based on the experience of Coventry and other British cities if Bomber Command could "dehouse"...
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  • dropped. Around this time Frederick Lindemann wrote an infamous report on dehousing, suggesting that the bomber force be directed against German urban areas...
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    or enemy combatants. Strategic bombing may also include the intent to dehouse, demoralize, or inflict civilian casualties, and thus hinders them from...
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    which 1,300 civilians were killed, with thousands more being wounded or dehoused. Other cities subjected to terror bombing by the Italians included Durango...
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  • Air Force bomb Berlin, a raid which kills between 2,500 and 3,000 and dehouses another 120,000. 1945 – World War II: The United States and the Philippine...
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    in a further 450 acres (180 ha). Attacks on the industrial city Kassel dehoused 123,800 people (62 per cent of the population) and killed 6,000 civilians...
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    number of wounded amounted to 20,000, and 120,000 were left homeless or "dehoused". Another raid on 26 February 1945 left another 80,000 people homeless...
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    this period due to the effects of bombing: the killing, injuring and dehousing of the workers as well as the destruction of the transportation network...
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    Aerial bombardment and international law § International law up to 1945 Dehousing paper – British Cabinet paper on the policy AF Bomber Command § Strategic...
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  • Blitz began and (along with Hull Blitz) became the basis for the RAF dehousing bombing policy in 1942.  25 August: First RAF raid on Berlin 7 September:...
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    production and reconstruction critical to the automotive industry, but also to dehouse workers. 503 tons of high explosive and oil bombs were dropped by the 449...
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