The Impact Of War On Civilians In Great Britain

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To what extent was the impact of war on civilians in Great Britain equal to its impact on civilians in Germany
The extent of war on civilians is not equal to Great Britain as it is in Germany. The British bombing on the Germans had a lot more of an impact in terms of the civilian aspect, namely the cities of Dresden, which took place on the 13th of February 1940, Hamburg, which took place in July 1943 and Cologne, with the first bombing raid taking place on the 12th of May, and the most notable bombing taking place on the 30th of May. In total, the Germans faced 305,000 to 600,000 casualties as a result of the bombings. The Allied bombing was in direct retaliation to the Blitz (from the German perspective), or the Battle of Britain, in which

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