Known
throughout Europe for his revisionist activities, the Frenchman Vincent
Reynouard (33), is a teacher of physics and mathematics living in exile
in Belgium following his exclusion from the state school system and harsh
convictions in the French courts for his writings. He illustrated the
conference theme, providing numerous figures and passages drawn from
documents concerning the strategy of massive aerial bombardment as conceived
by the Anglo-Americans and practised by the latter against the populations
of large cities. Indeed, well
before the start of the second world war, and well before their designated
foe, Germany, possessed a single bomber, the English-speaking democrats
considered the widespread use of bombing, until then intended for military
targets, as a means not only of striking at an enemy’s armament capacity,
but also of annihilating the economy of an entire nation. Moreover, during
the 1939-1945 conflict they ended up opting for a method of unprecedented,
horrific barbarity: the massive and systematic bombardment of the most
densely populated neighbourhoods of the German cities. And they still claim
today that it was all justified, since any means were good to put an end to
"Nazi barbarism".
