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Originally Posted by Bewolf
I strongly, strongly suggest you read the whole thread before posting and warming up arguments that have been discussed ad infitintum and throwing around insults. So far you did not provide anything that has not been said before.
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It's just too long a thread to read it all, then go back and start again, quoting bits that jump out at you. No doubt this has all been discussed a million times before, and no one here will say anything that hasn't been said before, so if you don't want to read the same thing again, don't read the thread.
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Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II
erm, blaming Nazi Germany for the killing of millions of innocent people is one thing I completely I agree on (as much as I hope you agree the Allies did the same)
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The allies certainly killed millions of innocent people. The differences are in justification. When bombing enemy civilians you may be trying to encourage the enemy to chance their tactics, or weaken their resolve. Or they may be casualties among military targets. None of it is nice, but if you are fighting to ultimately defend your country it can be understandable. There is no such way to defend the holocaust.
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Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II
The danger of writing history is that you need to be careful not to follow at all costs the doctrine of "we won, we're the good ones".
Don't ever forget that if they won the war, they would be the good ones and the Allies would be the baddies..
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This is so wrong I don't know where to start. While over the centuries there has been truth in the saying that the victors write the history, you should not give up on finding the truth. If
they had won the war, they would still have been the baddies (as you put it), we just might not know they were.
The Romans took over Europe, they won - they were not the goodies.
The Brits took over half the world - they were not the goodies.
The Crusaders went on a killing spree under the name of god - they were not the goodies.
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It's not like every German was a Nazi and wanted to conquer the world, that's a somewhat naive view me thinks..
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No of course they weren't. It was your view that the war was not Germany's fault (the country, not every individual) that I am shocked by.