[bongodriver]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

I knew you completely missed the point. Nobody here is saying one should protest against the memorial per se, but it's of vital importance to convey the right message about it, not to turn it into a way of exorcising the dark memory of the mass murder of civilians for no purpose whatsoever.

It really shocks me that there's still people nowadays like Winny who think it was good to bomb the Germans "because they deserved it", this "eye for an eye" attitude doesn't make the act of bombing civilians less of a crime.

I didn't miss any points, the allies targeting of civillian infrastructure was less about the actuall killing of civillians and innocents and more about taking the war back to Germany by the only means available, I'm sure if the allies had boots on the ground at that time there wouldn't have been any systematic exterminations of the civil populace, given the level of horror the Nazis (who were Germans) were committing I find Winny's attitude more understandable than Bewolf's bizarre claim Bomber command was formed solely to kill civillians.