'If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.'
Never a good idea ~ he should have waited for the nukes then no one would have found out he burned only a small percentage of those he sought to destroy.
Growing up in Indianapolis I early discovered that there were a good 150,000 people around who had a personal (blood tie) interest in the outcomes in several German cities.
First Cologne ~ Koln ~ Naptown has a Catholic church which is a scale model replica of Den Dom. There's a reason for this.
Secondly, Dresden ~
Thirdly, Dusseldorf ~
Fourth, Frankfurt and its many suburbs.
Strange, eh?
This was the case throughout the American Midwest.
The Germans voted in the Nazis to resolve vexatious economic and monetary problems. They got Hitler. No doubt many Americans think the unknown, inexperienced, untried Democrats led by Obama can fix some of our vexatious economic and monetary problems.
We'll be lucky to have someone 64 years later who gives a damn how Cleveland was burned to the ground or how many millions were turned into dust.
'If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.'
If any of them bothered to read Mein Kampf, they would have known what Hitler had in store. Seems to me that Hitler wasn't properly 'vetted' by the German people.