00:00The war in Europe was over, but the reckoning for Alexandre Lure had only begun.
00:07Lure's career showed how a trained officer of the old monarchies moved through the new age of air war.
00:14He learned to think in terms of sectors and sorties, weights of bomb load and radii of action.
00:20He adopted the belief that speed and shock could decide a campaign before the enemy could respond.
00:26He was responsible for the murders of civilians by bombs and fire, and also for wiping out entire communities in
00:34the Balkans.
00:36The Yugoslav authorities put Alexandre Lure on trial for war crimes.
00:41The charges included the bombing of Belgrade in April 1941 and the anti-partisan reprisals carried out under his command,
00:49when also wounded partisan soldiers were shot on the spot by German units and villagers were burned to the ground.
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