“The losses inflicted by the American and British air fleets,” Speer said, “constituted for Germany the greatest lost battle of the war,” and it was the Americans, he emphasized, who delivered the most telling blows. There is good reason to question Speer’s testimony to American Air Force interrogators. Knowing he would soon be tried as a war criminal, he was surely tempted to tell them what they wanted to hear—that American economic bombing was more effective than British area bombing. But Speer told British interrogators exactly the same thing. “The American attacks, which followed a
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