I'll throw out that there are two different things Arthur is talking about, and they're getting conflated a bit. One is the issue of vengeance, did the Germans get off "easy" -- debatable. The other is who bore the bigger costs of defeating the Nazis (the USSR, no question)
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If you want to take a peek over at the Pacific Theatre, this is a really big fucking issue in the history of China and Korea and helped pave the way for lots and lots of 20th-century "instability" in Asia
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Ask someone who had relatives in the Rape of Nanking how they feel about the Japanese "economic miracle" in the 1960s, and whether said miracle and the myriad benefits it provided the world through Japanese technological innovation proves the value of forgiveness and compassion
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