Hmmmm, what two countries indicrimatly bombed Polish and Chinese cities? Tough for them when we paid them back.
As always, payback is given to those who didn´t order the attack on Poland or China. And don´t come me with "they voted for war". Nobody imagined in 1933 that Hitler would start a war against its neighbours.
So, bombs on civilians was surely wrong. Was it a war crime? From our viewpoint today, probably - from the ex ante view, probably not. Should those who bombed feel shame? Maybe. Should they regret that innocents died? Definitely. Should they be punished, or do they deserve contempt? He** no! They´re not to blame. They simply didn´t know better. Times were different, we´ve have developed new measures of war, and that´s good.
Michael from Hamburg,
Germany
And French and Dutch and English and Norwegian cities.....