not know whom to blame. Earlier in the war the tendency was to excoriate the British and scream for reprisals. But when the bombing accelerated and German bombers and vengeance rockets failed to bring down equal suffering on the English, the Nazi government began to be singled out for censure. By 1945, the party and its supreme leader became the principal targets of public frustration. “We have the Führer to thank for this,” a man from bomb-ravaged Dusseldorf had the guts to say in front of an SS soldier.
