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Originally Posted by Kurfürst
Uhm, it was Britain who did declare war on Germany, refused German peace offers during the war (several times in fact), and it was Britain who started bombing German cities.
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Peacemongers Germany, who knew!
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To put it like the poor British were 'forced' to fight back against an agression is pure BS.
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Right. Because there was no aggression to be fought in Europe at that time.
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They had a choice in the matter. It was the Brits who choose war, and it was the Brits to choose to wage that war by targetting the enemy cities and civillian population itself.
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I thought war started with Germany`s aggresion to Poland earlier
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Don't blame it anyone else. Britain was not 'attacked' and Britain was not fighting 'back'. Britain wanted to fight and it wanted to fight in this rather dirty way. At least be a man about it.
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Right. They should have stayed out until they`re all alone.
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It set nothing - an army besieged a city and took it. There's hardly anything special about it. Bombarment of a besieged city is permitted under the rules of war, within some reasonable limits - some sort of military advantage from the bombardment, some sort of restraint from pointless destruction IS required, however.
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Also straffing thousands of civilians leaving the city. They did set a tone for leading a war - a total war once again.
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It set the tone for war propaganda perhaps, but certainly not for the conduct military operations. The French and British militaries were well aware of that fact, but of course their propaganda sold a different picture to their public.
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Because Hitler never conducted anything other than a military operation