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gerald – nobody, not a single person, has questioned the sacrifices made by the aircrew themselves. However, several have commented on the strategy and your inability to distinguish between cause and effect robs your post of any credibility.

The reason the memorial took seventy years to build is not ignorance of the loss of life, but the questionable policy behind it – you overlook that there have been several calls to investigate the wilful bombing of civilian areas in Germany as a war crime.

Everybody has the right to question the dubious architectural form of the memorial without any hint to disrespect to the dead. Indeed, I – and others – believe that a better memorial would have been more respectful.

By the way, Liam O’Connor was the architect, not another critic.