The big difference between Dresden and Hiroshima is that Imperial Japan's worst atrocities were carried out on foreign soil whereas Dachau was right in the heart of Germany, a suburb of Munich
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
Oh yeah the postwar claims of German adult civilians that they had no idea the Holocaust was going on just up the road from them did ring pretty hollow, certainly. Does that justify burning them and their children alive?
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Replying to @AndrewJensen2 @iridienne and
Dresden wasn't a judicial punishment, it was an act of war intended to disrupt the German war machine and break the morale of the populace in order to hasten surrender On those utilitarian grounds, it was justified
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AndrewJensen2 and
Slaughtering Jews, in Hitler's view, was necessary to winning the war. I think that view was wrong for the same reason I think slaughtering German civilians was wrong. Civilians are not legitimate military targets in themselves.
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Replying to @jlippincott_ @arthur_affect and
Buddy, you can debate about the humanity or effectiveness of firebombing industrial centers, you can argue if it's feasible to spare civilians when a nation is in state of total war but, they aimed at neutralizing German ability to continue the war, Hitler wanted extermination.
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Replying to @Dominic11B4 @jlippincott_ and
Yeah unless someone argues that it would be a positive good to render a region Deutschenfrei for its own sake this is an absurd false equivalence, and a deeply odious one Dresden is not the fucking "German Holocaust" and saying it is verges on Holocaust denial
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jlippincott_ and
It is Holocaust denial. St*net*ss made a comic literally doing just this. Mentions Dresden by name.
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Replying to @RiffChick @arthur_affect and
I would also point out that more American airmen died in the skies over Europe than Marines died in the entire island hopping campaign. Not only were these crews ordered to commit war crimes, their deaths meant nothing. No politicians ever answered for it either.
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Replying to @amanofnoaccount @jlippincott_ and
The idea that winning WWII and stopping the Holocaust is "nothing" is exactly what's so offensive
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jlippincott_ and
Also this is nonsense when applied to Dresden, where the Luftwaffe was so outmatched the Allies only lost seven aircraft out of an attacking force of over 2,000, the whole reason people like you call it an atrocity
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If you're saying the *entire* Allied air war over Europe was an atrocity you're an even more shameless Nazi apologist than I thought you were
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