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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..
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They were not the same. Dropping bombs on cities in a country you are at war with is nothing like the extermination of members of your own society based on religious belief.
I find the Bomber Command argument a little strange.
The Allies and Axis used artillery on cities, this is much closer to carpet bombing than death camps are. Yet I never hear anything about that being 'murder' or that artillery crews were 'murderers'
Truth is that wartime Germany got what it deserved, no more, no less.
The one person who could have stopped it all was Hitler, sadly he cared a lot less about his people than he did his ego, so he didn't surrender and the bombing continued.
To blame the allies is missing the point. When you look at civillian casualties during WW2 Germany got off lightly.
I have yet to hear a convincing argument as to why the allies shoud not have bombed Germany.