Tippi-Simo wrote (View Post): |
It is funny that killing small group of people is called a massacre while bombing German cities into rubble is just called an operation.
Well, winners write the history period |
kawasaky wrote (View Post): | ||
Malmedy was a massacre, no doubt about it. The Western Allies did the very same things on various occassions, if one decided to dig a bit for some info only one shovel of dirt removed would have been enough, but this...
No it isn't contradictory at all. In Total war, (like WWI and WWII, Vietnam, Korea etc.) the civilians are a legit target (and just for the balance sake you could have mentioned London, Coventry, Warsaw, Belgrade, or at least a dozen of other cities terror bombed by the Germans). By killing, maiming or dehousing them you reduce your enemys power to make a war. Period. The same thing is with the combatants UNTIL they chose to surrender. After the act of surrender they (i) cannot make war anymore and therefore are (ii) protected by international treaties. So, when you kill the enemy who have surrendered it's a murder. If you kill him during the firefight it isn't. Quite easy. Now connect the dots. If Harris continued (by some miracle) to destroy Germany after 9 May 1945, it would have been murder, just as the Malmedy POW killings are. |
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