RAF Bomber crews remembered. Better late than never.

[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.

[bongodriver]

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.

[winny]

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..

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.