Original WW2 British Air Drop Propaganda Leaflet. - Code G.20 [1942].

[Title]: ENGLAND 1940 / LÜBECK.

[Political Warfare Executive, 1942]. Original aerial propaganda leaflet printed in red and black, illustrated. 2 pages. 214 x 268 mm. Text in German.

Code G.20 [1942]. - Kirchner 4, 42. - The Royal Air Force disseminated this leaflet between May and June 1942.

“In all, the Coventry raid killed 568 civilians and seriously wounded another 865. Of the 509 bombers ultimately dispatched by Göring to attack the city, some were deterred by anti-aircraft fire, others turned back for other reasons: 449 actually made it. Over eleven hours, Luftwaffe crews dropped 500 tons of high explosives and 29,000 incendiaries. The raid destroyed 2,294 buildings and damaged 45,704 more, such thorough devastation that it gave rise to a new word, “coventration,” to describe the effect of massed air raids. The RAF made Coventry the standard by which to estimate the total deaths likely to occur during its own raids on German towns, with the results rated as “1 Coventry”, “2 Coventries,” and so on.” (Larson, E. The Splendid and the Vile, p. 298).

Folded in the middle, some light rubbing and creasing. - Authenticated by Klaus Kirchner, with his hand stamp to verso.

Please note: the leaflet will be mailed folded in half along the existing fold lines. 

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