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Lot of people in these comments weeping for the fate of Dresden and other cities in Nazi Germany, who can eat shit
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Replying to @arthur_affect
If you don’t want your cities level, don’t become Nazis. Simple.
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Replying to @JGavinSanders
Germany, all things considered, got off *incredibly* easy after World War II and anyone who seriously argues otherwise is sus
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Replying to @arthur_affect @JGavinSanders
Potsdam lead to one of the biggest ethnic cleansings in history. Remember, we're talking about women and children here.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_and_expulsion_of_Germans_(1944–1950) …
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Replying to @jlippincott_ @JGavinSanders
If you don't want your own civilian populations bombed you shouldn't massacre civilians within your own territory and if you don't want to be expelled from a region you shouldn't try to seize it by conquest Play silly games win silly prizes
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Replying to @arthur_affect @JGavinSanders
One war crime doesn't justify another. Not to mention that strategic bombing doesn't even work. It is a phenomenal waste of resources. Ethnic Germans, along with many other minorities, had spent centuries in the East before being removed at gunpoint.
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Replying to @jlippincott_ @JGavinSanders
Because after those centuries, when Hitler started pushing an ethnonationalist line of using minority German populations as a pretext for conquest those populations went right along with it
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I don’t think you’re necessarily wrong but I kinda wonder how much populations in general should be realistically expected to not ‘go along with it’?
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I don't expect much of people under fascist regimes, and they in turn should not expect much of their opponents when they lose the war
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