London and Coventry are in no sense comparable to the systematic terror bombing unleashed on German civilian populations. Yeah, they started it. So what.
They virtually reduced Warsaw to nothing but ashes. War is Hell, don't start them.
The only reason Germany didn't burn London and every English city to the ground was the lack of ability not some sense of restraint.
In addition to being morally wrong to start the war, they were tactically idiotic in that they didn't have the strength to win it.
How are they “not comparable”?
Because the Nazis only had enough aircraft to concentrate on those two areas?
Not as if the Nazis wouldn’t have put up a thousand plane raid if they could have. A good analogy is the terrorists on 9/11. If they could have got their hands on a nuclear weapon, they would have used it. To argue otherwise is to support the thought process of “We wanted to kill some people, but only a limited number like 20.000. If we had wanted to kill 50,000, we thought that would have been too many.”
You see, the Nazis already showed us what they would do if they had the opportunity, Rotterdam, Coventry, London. They just didn’t have the resources, thank God for that.
When your enemy puts aside the rules of civility and resorts to unrestricted warfare, you do as well.
I would say that is “so what”. When someone starts a fight, they better finish it. WE finished it, not those pieces of crap who started it. Then, we get people who whine “Ooooohhh...the winners write the history. We were just as bad and evil as the Nazis.”
The Germans showed no mercy, why should they expect any? They can revise history all they want, they sowed the wind and reaped the whirlwind...and a few firestorms.
What an asinine remark. The Nazis started the total war thing. I suppose the Allies should have let the war go on for a few years and maybe the Nazis could have killed a few million more people.
Germany should have made better strategic bombers.
As my daughter says, “It’s a bitch to suck.”
The Nazis could have surrendered anytime they wanted. I am sure we could have worked something out with us. With Uncle Joe? Probably not so much.