Blitz+(+Blitzkreig+)

Blitz ( Blitzkrieg ) By Julia The Blitz, short for Blitzkrieg, means lightning war. They were air raids by the German soldiers and Nazis on the Allied Countries and just plain innocent countries. Some of the attacks did hardly any damage. Yet, some were fatal.

 The two raids that did the most damage and were the most fatal were on Britain and on Poland. Britain being an Allied Country, and Poland being a weak, innocent country that just wanted no part in the war. The Blitz on Britain was awful. About 50,000 people died. 20,000 of those people being soldiers. But, 30,000 of those poor souls were just regular people. It's just so sad. The Blitz in Poland was even more fatal than this. It was about 2:30 in the morning when they came. People ran for their Blitzkrieg shelters but most of them just  weren't fast enough, and, the town was tiny. It only took around ten minutes for it to be in ruins. Around 100,000 people died. 50,000 people were soldiers. The rest of them were regular people.

 The more Blitz's that happened, the more the Allied Countries realized how bad the damage could be. They needed to fight off the Nazis and German soldiers. So they did.

Soon after that though, the Blitz's stopped. They stopped because one Italian commander was expecting an Allied invasion on Normandy. He was right.

So basically, Blitz's were just super fast air raids that could be very fatal. They were terrible, but they in some way made the Allied Countries stronger because they needed to fight back and prevent Blitz's, and that's just what they did.