Feuersturm - "Der Bombenkrieg gegen Deutschland" -Teil 1

Were the terrible bombing raids on German cities necessary acts of war with unavoidable civilian casualties, or did British and Americans practice futile retribution, as Jörg Friedrich says? In his book "Der Brand", the Berlin historian asks inconvenient questions, putting him at the top of the bestseller lists. In his documentary, SPIEGEL TV author Michael Kloft tells the story of the air war with partly unpublished film documents and moving interviews with contemporary witnesses. He interviewed former bomber pilots in the US and England and visited survivors of the devastating bomb attack on Braunschweig on October 14, 1944. Last but not least, Jörg Friedrich himself and the British historian Richard Overy have their say.