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Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

Well,in theory they're both a deliberate attack on a specific ethnic group with the purpose of annihilating it,although the Nazi agenda was surely on a different scale of horror.

Don't forget that US propaganda worked hard at de-humanising the Japanese during the war,which made the decision on dropping the atomic bombs even easier to digest.

Ah no, very very different, the Allies agenda was 'not' to anhilate the Germans, it was to end the war and Germany had to pay a price.
argueably it's much the same situation in the pacific, even the atom bombs didn't anhilate an entire ethnic group, but they sure as hell ended the war.