Yeah, Hitler always maintained that the German Fatherland would never be hit, but the British quickly disabused him of that fantasy. The Brits bombed the Ruhr Valley industrial area in May of 1940 and then Berlin in August of 1940 just to show him that they could. Apparently, lil' Adolf was so upset that he had to break out his stress ball!
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence