Overview: This looks to be a form of documentary found on Youtube in what sounds to be in German, but has an English translation in text on the under the video. It explains how the Port of London was the main target by the Germans. Using a total of 497 bombers and 515 fighters the first day, the Germans killed 436 civilians in London and injured about 1,666 civilians. This documentary also talks about how weak the London defense was against Germany air raids. London only had 92 fighter planes to start off to defend themselves until about a week later they were able to double their fighters. Their anti-aircraft guns were not much use due to only a few of them having fire-control, and the searchlights were only able to reach 12,000 feet which was not high enough to spot a lot of the aircrafts. The defense rooms used by government people of London were called Cabinet War Rooms, they were underground bunkers which were not safe if directly hit by air bombs. Most of the bombers on the German side were ofcourse Germans, but some were Italian that flew aircraft from Belgium. This documentary also notes that the Germans had less than a one percent combat loss.
Arguement: This documentary clearly shows a favor of the German side by expressing how many deaths there were in London, and did not mention anything about the deaths from the German side. It also says how the defense of London was not strong enough, and how the Germans only had a small lost; those few things prove the author is on the side of the Germans.
Source: The source was found on Youtube and looks to be a documentary. As stated in the Arguement, the source clearly favors the Germans.
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