How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though any havoc of the German bombs could possibly equal the things we have done ourselves!
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Quoted by George Orwell in Tribune, December 31, 1943.
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Referring to the Baedeker Blitz: a series of German air raids on English cities of historic and architectural interest.Osbert Sitwell
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