Berlin bombed

25th August 1940: Five million residents are stunned to learn that they are vulnerable - whilst Goring is humiliated and Hitler is incensed

The first damage from an air raid on Berlin was trivial compared with what came later but it shook the confidence of the Nazi regime.

After Luftwaffe planes had bombed London on the 24th August, probably by mistake or simply because they were unloading their bombs randomly in order to escape fighters, Churchill ordered the first deliberate bombing of the…