SIR - In reply to the views of Karl Dallas (T&A, January 9) with regard to the Nazi war criminals and those responsible for the destruction of Dresden and other German and Japanese cities, I feel he either has a very selective memory or a sparse knowledge of the Second World War.

May I remind him of the bombings of Warsaw and Rotterdam (without declaring war).

Does he not know about the London Blitz when the city was bombed on 76 consecutive nights?

Then there was the bombing of Portsmouth, Plymouth, Coventry, Liverpool, Hull, Sheffield and many more.

May I remind him that after one raid on Sheffield men were searching the ruins for body parts and putting them into sacks, and more than 400 bodies of men, women and children who could not be identified because of their horrific injuries were bulldozed into a mass grave.

Has he never heard of the Baedecker raids where our most beautiful cities such as Exeter, Bath and many more were attacked although they were of no particular military importance.

In my opinion you cannot compare the situation in Iraq with the Nazi era.

Geoffrey Rhodes, Amblers Mews, Baildon