Allied bombing

Samuel Crowell, ibid., see also Defending Against the Allied Bombing Campaign Air Raid Shelters and Gas Protection in Germany, 1939-1945 , online ... 

Illustration Group 27 German civilian victims of Allied bombing attacks. Payload dropped 2,767,000 tons. Only a few cases of roughly one million German Holocaust victims. One tends to forget that the fate of the normal Germans, soldiers and civilians, was sometimes even worse than that of the hundreds of thousands of inmates in POW and concentration camps. 

The nine F-T plants contributed another 585,000 metric tons of primary products to the war effort, or 12-15 percent of Germany s total liquid fuel requirements. Their production fell significantly because of Allied bombing, decreasing from 43,000 metric tons in the first four months of 1944 to 27,000 metric tons in June, to 7,000 metric tons in December, and to 4,000 metric tons in March 1945 [33],... 

This prohibition is linked to the idea of directly bombing the civilians, which was a prevalent part of the discussion about the use of airpower prior to World War 11. 2 Although criticism of the Allied bombing of population centers was voiced during that conflict,it was not until 1977 that the movement to legally limit the impact of aerial bombing found success in the creation of the Additional Protocol /provisions on targeting. ... 

The Norsk Hydro hydrogen electrolysis plant at Vemork, Norway, produced heavy water for German uranium research until disabled by Allied bombing. 63. The ferry Hydro on Lake Tinnsjd, Norway, sunk by commandos while carrying the last Norsk Hydro heavy water to Germany. 

Returning then to the narrative, we can certainly assert that the terrible cost in human lives and material goods due to World War II, caused by heavy Allied bombing and the movement of the front in August 1944, affected the University of Florence far more deeply than did World War I. 

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