Why was hitler so easily baited by Churchill?

>>1654889
Superior Anglo Banter

If Hitler was capable of evaluating world events and making smart decisions, he wouldn't have been Hitler.

>>1654889
>but if he didn't bomb towns & cities in retaliation, world war 2 could've been avoided,

What? It had already been going on for months.

> or at least have had a different outcome.

Extraordinarily unlikely.

>What is he really gaining from bombing civilians other than British hatred for Germany?

Battle of Britain was still, at least on paper, to support a sealion. In addition to reducing the RAF, Hitler needed to disrupt lines of communication, to keep troop formations from rushing to wherever he was landing and overwhelming the beachhead, and destroying any industry is nice.

>The peace movement in Britian stopped after he started to bomb London.

The Peace movement was nowhere near to unseating Churchill in any way.

>Surely targeting just military targets would've been more beneficial and economical to the German war effort anyways?

It also would have been insufficient. Britain was building planes faster than Germany was, and pilots were the real bottleneck. Bombing airfields stung the RAF, but not nearly enough to pull them out of action, and if the heat got too bad, there was nothing preventing them from pulling up stakes and basing somewhere in the Midlands, sacrificing coverage time over southern England to protect the airfields. What do you do then?

Not to mention the bombing of civilians being directly attributable to British strat-bombing is ridiculous. Seelowe demanded destruction of railroads before the invasion, and sooner or later you're going to have to bomb civvies to do that.

>>1655071
Chruchill was American though.

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>>1654889
Hitler was incompetent, this is well-established.

>>1655206
All fascists are incompetent militarily, it's a trait.

>>1655209
>20 million dead Russians

>>1655217
>killing civilians
>military competence

>>1655239
so americans were largely incompetent during vietnam?

>>1655246
that's a fucking no-brainer

>>1655217
>>1655246
There's plenty of incompetence to go around.

>>1655246
You don't say?

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>>1655269
DELET

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>>1654889
He got power hungry an since Hitler was mentally ill he took advantage of that an pretty much 100/100 Barter his way through letting it be "okay" to do the bombings.

>>1655127

Retard. If things had kept going, Britain would have surrendered. It was only U.S. assistance that kept them going.

>>1655127

I meant to say, they could've reached a peace deal. English weren't as ready to go to war until the bombings

>>1654889
>world war 2 could've been avoided,

Is this the intelligence of the average wehraboo?

>world war II could have been avoided if hitler had bombed different targets during world war II

>>1655217

>still lost the war

Checks out.

>>1656917
>English weren't as ready to go to war until the bombings

They had been officially at war since 1939. Remember, anon, you have to be 18 to use this site.

>>1655192
His mother was an american

>>1654889

He was generally dumb. Also, austrian. Which is the most continental-clay-dumb-centered of all german nationalities. And that is saying a lot.

>>1654889

Hitler was a young hothead in comparison to Churchill who was a hothead back in his youth