every civilian was doing something to support the army, kill enough of them, and the army can't function.
Also it worked against japan didn't it.
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every civilian was doing something to support the army, kill enough of them, and the army can't function.
Also it worked against japan didn't it.
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And it did mean nothing for a large part of Europe who ended the war swapping one dictator for another and living under a comunist empire (so to speak) instead of a facist empire for around 45 years after Germany lost.
Correction there where trails for war crimes of those on the losing side, except those who where benifical for the wining side to offer amnesty too.
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That would be too inefficent, you have to target the useful population, key workers those you find in industry and that is the tactic that was largely used.
what was it 96% of the GPD was going straight to the war effort. yes it does take the entire country.
As for the prosecutions. Nothing more than muscle flexing and a way to get rid of some people.
If you cant take out the well defended factories, kill the workers, or if you can take out the factories, they can be rebuilt, workers take years to replace.
As for the kids, no one knew how long the war would last, during the five years a large number of people will have grown to the age they could join the army, kill the children, means less troops to fight in later years.
Also it servers to demoralize the country and hopefully force it to surrender, as with the Japanese
"Soon enough" isn't quick enough, and the problem with hitting military targets is they are usually defended, so it couldn't be risked losing a bomb over enemy territory where it could be reverse engineered.
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Like I said a few times, rules and laws applied where it suited the politics. I never mentioned taking sides in anything just debating the rights and wrongs, both sides did right and wrong. One German general even took his command into a town in Poland to take back the Jews that had been taken from his service and were going to be sent for liquidation. He did not aggree with it and so threatened a weaker force of his own side and took back the Jews so they could not be liquidated (executed). Like I say both sides did right and wrong.
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A country dose not consist soley of an economy.
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I doubt they were gotten rid of for show, they needed executing and imprisonment.
Who do you think makes that economy? hedgehogs?
Just like saddam hussein? His excution was nothing more than a show. If they wanted to do it legit it would have been tried at the court of war crimes.
yes, because telling the people you are about to bomb that you are going to drop a bomb from a large slow airplane, from a small, fairly poorly guarded air base is always a genius and fool proof plan.
after all it's not like they would pull their air force back/attack that base and set up large anti air batteries is it?
So what about unit 177(?) that killed an tortured far more people than any general?
They where just accepted in with open arms.
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That could have happened wherever they dropped the bomb so is a mute point, unless of course they dropped it in Tokyo bay or some other sea location.
The Japanese did not know what the bomb wa or if the allies could repeat it. Hence why they only surrendered after the 2nd.
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No and thats partly whats wrong with this country, youth has no sense of history, culture or respect for their elders.
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And where did I say they got all the criminals?, nobody will ever know how many got away with things, on any side in the war. for all I know my grandad could have been one of them (he fought for the German army). In the end they probably got less people than it took to staff one small concentration camp and the rest melted away with the displaced and refugees.
no they, slowly over a few weeks sent out bombers over cities, which did not have anti air defenses unlike military bases, or where well guarded by fighters like Tokyo, for a few weeks the bombers did nothing just flew over nice and slow, till everyone got used to them as just recon planes, then without word, nor warning the next time they flew over a little black dot fell from them.
They seem pretty cool to me, plenty of people collect guns, medals etc. from WWII, Hitler is a historic figure, he was a historic failure and paid the ultimate price for his uber right wing policies.
I don't really see a problem
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I don't really see a problem
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They would have gotten the point, Tokyo bay it would have been seen.
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What, so you know what war crimes are, but basically you're saying "all's fair in war" so you don't think they should exist as punishable offenses?
- so they're only sensible in civil war?
The idea of war crimes is to stop people committing them, and punish them for committing atrocities such as mass killing, torture, rape etc. I'm not sure what is so stupid about that. Care to explain?