Thread:General MGD 109/@comment-92.15.129.47-20141103213046/@comment-1509826-20141105193154

Ah the bombings yes, that was controversal. The sheer carpet bombing of germany was pretty dark. But you have remeber this is warfare. And no ones saying the allies didn't play dirty when they had no other choice.

As for the bombing, well if Churchil was still alive he would probably agree with you there. According the reports I read, when he saw the progress films of there efforts, he had to stop the film to go out to be sick.

He didn't stop them occuring though. Simply cause they needed to destroy the enemy, it was a terrible thing, but it was really nothing more than the desperation needed to end the second world war.

Let me ask you a question, should we give General Curtis LeMay a page? He did delliberately bomb civilians during the war, but he only did it cause he was sick of watching his own men die and believed that it would end the war quicker. Likewise he acknowledged that once war was over if they wanted him to be tried for war crimes he would willingly go along with it, and he was disgusted by the actions of the far more brutal General Thomas Power.

I would say no, cause although it was an evil deed. He was in the circumstances where its truly possible to acess what he did in turns of whether it did more good or evil.

Churchil's much the same, the Allies likewise did play dirty during the war. In Britain alone, the imprisoned all German, Itallian (and pretty much all foreigners) in camps in case they turned to be traitors (not death or work camps you understand, just large prisons, but still) but still had no trouble with them joining the army to fight and probably die for them.

And its important to remember this, but its also important to remember why they did this. Simply cause that's how desperate the situation got, and sometimes you had to do some pretty dirty things.

As Churchill himself put it "if Hitler was to invade hell, I would at least make a favourable reffernce to the devil himself in the house of commons."