Bombing the Abbey at Monte Cassino: Justified?
In this video Dr. Magnus Pahl from the MHM Dresden and I talk bombing of the abbey at Monte Cassino. Was it intentional? Did the Germans have position in the abbey? How did the Germans react? What did Hitler and Goebbels think?
Disclaimer: I was invited by Militärhistorische Museum der Bundeswehr Dresden in 2021. http://www.mhmbw.de/
Cover design by vonKickass.
Cover idea by Military Aviation History.
Cover Images:
Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-2005-0004 / Wittke / CC-BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/deed.en Link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2005-0004,_Italien,_Monte_Cassino.jpg
Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-17049 / Georg Pahl / CC-BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/deed.en Link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-17049,_Joseph_Goebbels_spricht.jpg
U.S. Air Force, Public Domain,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boeing_B-17Fs_in_flight_(050615-F-1234P-006).jpg
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Pahl, Magnus: Monte Cassino 1944: Der Kampf um Rom und seine Inszenierung. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh: Paderborn, Germany, 2021.
Pahl, Magnus; Wagner, Armin: Hitlers Elitetruppe? Mythos Fallschirmjäger. be.bra Verlag GmbH: Berlin, Germany, 2021.
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