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Very interesting to note that Oxford wasn't extensively bombed in ww2 despite being a manufacturing hub. I wonder what role this incident had in that choice.
by sgt101 2y ago
Very interesting to note that Oxford wasn't extensively bombed in ww2 despite being a manufacturing hub. I wonder what role this incident had in that choice.
- paganel 2y agoTake that with a huge grain of salt, but I've read recently that Hitler was thinking of making Oxford Britain's capital if the German invasion would have successfully happened, so because of that he didn't bomb it. I cannot remember the exact sources for that. On firmer ground when it comes to sources, I'm now reading E. H. Carr's Conditions of Peace [1] (written in 1942, so during WW2) and at some point he was also suggesting moving UK's capital from London further to the North, he was thinking somewhere in Midlands, if I remember right. It turns out that even back then some of the British people were fully aware of London's negative pull caused by its oversize. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditions_of_Peace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditions_of_Peace
- hermitcrab 2y agoKyoto may have been saved from the atom bomb because the US secretary of war had his honeymoon there: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-33755182 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-33755182