 The Battle of Berlin diverted German military resources from the land war and had an economic effect in physical damage, worker fatalities and injuries, relocation and fortification of industrial buildings and other infrastructure but by 1 April 1944, the campaign had failed to force a German capitulation,

In 2004, Daniel Oakman wrote that,

Harris had predicted the loss of and Oakman wrote "...it would be wrong to say that it was, in a strategic sense, a wasted effort.Bombing brought the war to Germany at a time when it was difficult to apply pressure anywhere else".In 2005, Kevin Wilson wrote that, despite the devastation of Berlin, the British raids failed to achieve their objectives.