I have an out of context quote, so why do people deny my Nazi propaganda?

"Two drafts of a letter"

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The answer to the question:

No, he did not.

A US Associated Press (AP) despatch stated that Allied Air Chiefs had made the ‘long awaited decision to adopt deliberate terror bombing of German population centres as a ruthless expedient to hastening Hitler’s doom’. This caused something of a stir in the US, where there was a slightly naive belief that the USAAF at least were conducting “precision bombing” against Germany (wryly, the US had no problem with the mass incineration of Japanese cities by Curtis LeMay)

This was raised in Parliament, and Sinclair - the Secretary of State for Air - replied that the UK was ‘not wasting its time on purely terror tactics’.

Churchill, concerned by this, wrote a minute to document a concern that ‘It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing German cities simply for the sake of increasing terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed.’ Presumably this enquiry is what you’re selectively quoting?

Arthur Harris was invited to reply, and he did so promptly. He pointed out in characteristically blunt terms that the suggestion that the Bomber offensive had been conducted for the ‘sake of increasing terror, though under other pretexts’ was an insult both to the Air Ministry policy and to the crews that had carried it out, explaining that ‘Dresden was a mass of munition works, an intact government centre and a key transportation point to the East. It is now none of those things.’

He went on to discuss the policy underlying the Bomber offensive, concluding with the warning that such scruples as the Prime Minister was considering would lengthen the war and increase the task facing the army both in Germany and against Japan.

Portal strongly backed the stance taken by his C-in-C, and Churchill withdrew his minute.

The “debate” tends to happen when someone starts with a preconcieved idea, seizes on out-of-context or incorrect information, and fails to check the actual facts.