got to be able to bomb them. For two years they haven’t been
bombed. But,” he exclaimed, “the moment the British try to
land in France and establish their second front, I’m not going to
leave a single fighter plane to defend the Reich: That same day
everything that can fly will be sent across [to France].”
“If the British once get a foothold on the Continent,” he
explained, “that would be fatal for us. If they bomb our cities for
those two or three days, that is bad but not fatal.”