INTERNATIONAL: Horror for Horror?
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Yet in the U.S. there was no visible enthusiasm for reprisals on German civilians. The destruction of Cologne was not a reprisal. Cologne was a military objective. The New Republic spoke for many when it said: "Certainly we should carefully balance the arguments on both sides, before embarking on a course that would in any way stain our record in the war or drag us down toward the Nazi level."
In the midst of the debate, goatish little Paul Joseph Goebbels, who is completely sold on the psychological value of reprisals, tried a new threat: he said that if the Allies did not stop their mass bombings of German cities, he would exterminate Germany's Jews.
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