In 1980 my UCLA professor Albert Hoxie told me a fascinating story of his WWII service working for the USAF Strategic Bombing Survey in postwar Hamburg. He researched the impact of the firebombing of the city in July 1943 by talking to German civilians. He discovered that the bombing actually helped the war effort by increasing worker productivity. All the clubs,cabarets and whorehouses in St Pauli got burnt out. People had nowhere to go but work. The bombing obtained the exact opposite of what it intended. Tell this to your bomb 'em to hell relatives.