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Originally Posted by JimmyBlonde
I'm sorry, I thought we were talking about Bomber Command and the campaign which practically annihilated all major German civil centers. Could you tell me what role the SS and the London Blitz played in that? (Apart from being the cause of it, naturally)
Since you seem more interested in being "right on the internet" than viewing history in it's proper context and learning something about why people who lose 75% of their infrastructure (In not just one town but every single major town in their nation) aren't nice to shot down bomber crews I'll leave you to it.
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I think you'll find that it was Hitler's fault. All he had to do was surrender and it would have stopped.
With hindsight it's easy to say that bombing civillians was wrong, but at the time the German people had to be shown what war was like. They quite happily shelled and bombed the hell out of many european cities. If you can't take it, don't dish it out.
Having said that, plenty of German bomber crews were killed on the ground by the British. It's the nature of the beast. If you've just watched your town being destroyed you're gonna be pretty pissed off if you're suddenly confronted by one of the people who did it.
Dropping bombs on cities is wrong, killing baled out bomber crews is wrong, murdering surrendered soldiers is wrong, war is wrong. The whole argument about area bombing being 'wrong' is pointless, the whole bloody thing was wrong.
It was however, fought (on the Allied side) for a very 'right' reason.
Hilter (and by proxy the German people) simply could not be allowed to get away with it.
EDIT : You've also got to consider the fact that in '40/'41 London was bombed for 76 consecutive nights - Like I said - If you dish it out you have to expect that it might come back to haunt you - and then some..
11-13-2011, 12:36 PM
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