Munich bombed

30th October 1942: A rare perspective from a German dissident as the RAF strike at the heart of Nazism

Hitler addressing an early meeting of the National Socialist German Workers' Party in Munich in the 1920s.

The city of Munich had a special place in the Nazi regime. It was the birthplace of the Nazi Party and had witnessed the rise of Hitler. He had staged his attempted coup - the ‘beer-hall putsch’ - in Munich in 1923. When the Nazis came to power in 1…