WWII ; Was Allied bombing of Germany a war crime?
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Mr. Daystar
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No. We're done.
ApolloBalboa
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I feel it falls under the umbrella of "collective punishment".
Little Red Wagon Repairman
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I admit we hit them a couple times after the bell. Tell the judges to take a point away then.
WTF are you talking about the Nazis and the German people were responsible for no less than the Deaths of 6 million concentration camp victims, 20+ million soviet civilians and soldiers. The reach you should have gone for was in Tokyo when Curtis Lemay made the decision to drop napalm all over Tokyo because most structures were made of wood thus killing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. But this again is a huge reach 60+ years later from a war that killed so many innocents.
Mayhem
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Keep in mind that the destruction seen in both theaters of WWII resulted in Japan, Germany and Italy taking their own pro-active steps to insure that they never have to get pummeled like that again.
Since that time, there has been such a push for "clean" war. Don't get me wrong, I don't view the deaths of non-combatants with any satisfaction. But if you don't make your enemy pay and pay dearly for their government getting them into this mess, there was really no point in fighting and winning the war in the first place.
Since that time, there has been such a push for "clean" war. Don't get me wrong, I don't view the deaths of non-combatants with any satisfaction. But if you don't make your enemy pay and pay dearly for their government getting them into this mess, there was really no point in fighting and winning the war in the first place.
Ok, thank you for your comments.
As Mr. xfire said the bombings would not have happend if Germany would not have started the war.
But in general you could say that it is morally wrong to bomb civilian targets and one can only imagine what kind of suffering the air raid is for the eldery and for children who do not have a place of refuge.
As Mr. xfire said the bombings would not have happend if Germany would not have started the war.
But in general you could say that it is morally wrong to bomb civilian targets and one can only imagine what kind of suffering the air raid is for the eldery and for children who do not have a place of refuge.
This statement is just shit. The Nazis hid military targets in the midst of civilian targets, forcing the Allies to bomb there. Look at what was happening, then decide if bombing strategic targets that were in civilian areas (by Nazi design) is a bad idea. It was evil. A necessary evil.
That's true, but it is difficult to deal with different issues at the same time even if these events are related to the bombing of the German.
Well, if the settlement is a military target then that is true.
Will E Worm
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War is hell.
I believe that many pilots would refuse to step on a plane if they would have seen what the bombs cause.
bahodeme
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To be serious for a moment. The "reason" for bombing civilians in Japan was that The Emperor called for all civilians to be trained in fighting and the killing the enemy. Unlike a group of resistance fighters, this was en masse. Once this was done, the U.S. government changed the populace from civilian to combatants. Hence the bombings were "legitimize".As far as Germany is concern, I don't recall anything similar. But in WWI, the germans sank ships that were civilian when the protocol was to attempt to board, take the ship, give sufficient time for the ship to be abandon. This thwarted the advantage of U boats, so during the war there were piods of time this was not done. It started and stopped just enough so the U.S. did not get involved later. Therefore, there was no major resistance in the military not to fire bomb. So were these war crimes. If the Allies lost the war then there would be war crime trials similar to Nuremberg for Churchill and others.
ApolloBalboa
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They're in the army, they're pilots, they're not stupid. They know what bombs cause.
xfire
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Germany got what it asked for. Is there any question that Hitler would have exterminated everyone in his way if he could? There's only one way to deal with a ruthless murdering tyrant that's hell-bent on conquering the world, and that's total war. Hitler tried to bomb London off the map. The only thing stopping Hitler was his ability to conduct the kind of war he wanted because he sure as hell wouldn't have been restrained if he had the means. Hitler picked a fight he thought he could win because he was too fucking arrogant to look at America and the Soviet Union and realize that the manufacturing capacity of Germany could never match the production of his two biggest opponents. If anything, Germany got off easy compared to what they would have done if they had the opportunity.
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