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tranie 22.09.19 - 01:09pm

@ 9362 - 22.09.19 - 07:36am
Not just Churchill though. Arthur Harris also gets vilified. Inspirational leader of bomber command during the war. Now people attack him for the bombing of Dresden. Never said Churchill was a nice guy but the question I asked was who would his attackers here prefer to have been in charge

The bombing of dresden, could be considered a war crime. It was carried out in retrobution for the bombing of coventry. Even churchill said that dresden was a serious query against the conduct of Allied bombing. 25,000 non combatants, ie old ppl, woman and children lost thier lives, that day. * +

kimjongl 22.09.19 - 01:12pm
By today's standards much of the way WW2 was fought would be considered as war crimes. Hiroshima and Nagasaki especially. * +

kimjongl 22.09.19 - 01:14pm
Not that it matters much, Vietnam and Iraq still happened anyway as will future war crimes. * +

ogdenz 22.09.19 - 01:15pm

@ kimjongl - 22.09.19 - 01:12pm
By today's standards much of the way WW2 was fought would be considered as war crimes. Hiroshima and Nagasaki especially.

Spot on. * +

eyesore 22.09.19 - 01:51pm

@ tranie - 22.09.19 - 01:09pm
The bombing of dresden, could be considered a war crime. It was carried out in retrobution for the bombing of coventry. Even churchill said that dresden was a serious query against the conduct of Allied bombing. 25,000 non combatants, ie old ppl, woman and children lost thier lives, that day.

It was a legitimate militarily target. All German cities were and so were their citizens It was a was of attrition and it was successful. Same as Hiroshima and Nagasaki. * +

dodgey 22.09.19 - 02:21pm

@ eyesore - 22.09.19 - 01:51pm
It was a legitimate militarily target. All German cities were and so were their citizens It was a was of attrition and it was successful. Same as Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Civilians aren't a target, it's against the Geneva convention to attack non combatants, lots of crimes committed by both sides in that war., still crimes, Dresden was bombed purposely and we knew it was full of old buildings and a lot of them made with wood and it would devastate the place. * +

eyesore 22.09.19 - 03:07pm
It was a legitimate strategic target. Strategic bombing was relatively new then. Apart from the Spanish civil war it had never been done before. The idea was to destroy civilian morale and an enemy's means to wage war. This wasn't some mindless slaughter * +

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