DAVID ADAM,
Madam, - Kevin Myers's Irishman's Diary in your issue of December 11th caused interest in Germany where the traditional Allied "politically correct" portrayal of W.C. has recently come under severe criticism and led to angry contradition.
I must however heartily disagree with your correspondent's depiction of Air Marshall Harris as a bully who overrode Churchilll in the matter of the immolation of German cities in the 1939-45 war. The plain fact is that Harris was a capable officer entirely subject to Churchill's decisions. The latter, with the aid of, and on the advice of his friend, the Alsatian "Englishman" Lindemann, conceived and persisted in the inhuman bombing campaign right to the end despite strong opposition from Marshall Harris and his deputy Saunders with regard to the Dresden atrocity.
The truth is that Harris was made a scapegoat by certain circles in England to save Churchill from the stigma of being branded a "war criminal". The craven German press has followed the Allied "politically correct" representation of Churchill until the present outburst of public anger. - Yours, etc.,
DAVID ADAM, Düsseldorf, Germany.