Why the need for German planes?

[David603]

Originally Posted by Anton Yudintsev

It doesn't mean that fighting for Axis airforce in any game is 100% unethical.
But on the other hand, fighting for Allies IS 100% ethical.

No. That statement is completely incorrect. If you want to break down the ethical rights and wrongs of fighting for individual countries during WWII in a game into percentages, which is a flawed concept in itself, then you will find that it would be less than 100% ethical to fight for just about any country.

Obviously, some countries have cleaner hands than others, but if I was going to make a list of countries that could be considered as completely ethical to fight for I would have to exclude any country that attacked another without provocation (Germany/USSR/Japan/Italy), as a policy deliberately targeted civilians in a country that they were at war with(Germany/USA/UK/Japan), were responsible for or condoned war crimes (No entirely clean hands here) or carried out crimes against their own people in the interests of maintaining control(Germany/USSR/Vichy France).

So, what are we left with? Off the top of my head I can only think of Finland, which was incidentally an Axis country for most of the war, and Poland. Some of the smaller central European and Asian countries didn't have a say in the matter at all. And that's about it.