Hitler orders 'Terror Raids'

4th September 1940: The Führer declares that heavy bombing is the answer to Britain's "nonsensical behaviour"

Hitler and Goring enjoying the cheers of massed crowds in Berlin in July 1940 after the fall of France. But while Britain obstinately refused to come to terms, their victory remained incomplete.

After the Germans boasted that Berlin was too well protected to be bombed, there was shock when the RAF did hit the German capital for the first time on August 2…