Wow the account of firebombings sounds brutal. It is hard to tell who between the American leadership and the Japanese leadership had more disdain for the Japanese people.
They were horrific. The firebombings were responsible for more casualties and destruction than the atomic bombs. And neither made much difference to the course of the war. Given that these sorts of bombing campaigns serve very little military purpose i think it’s clear that they should be classified as war crimes.
Every time you look in history at this sort of thing you see the exact same thing: massive civilian toll for little to no military benefit. The Nazi Luftwaffe’s raids on London, Allied bombing raids on Germany, the firebombing of Japan, US bombing campaigns in Korea and Vietnam, now the Zionist bombing of Gaza…none of these broke the resolve or significantly degraded the military capabilities of the adversary. They are simply punitive campaigns against the civilian population.
Wouldn’t bombing the factory and dock workers actively manning Nazi production plants be a valid reason for targeting?
They weren’t some neutral pacifist city caught off guard by a violent attack. The firestorm occurred in neighborhoods predominantly committed to housing longshoremen building U-Boats at the docks, working civilian jobs at the port such as resupplying U-Boats, and working at the synthetic oil refineries near the docks.
Displacing those workers essentially throttled U-Boat construction in Hamburg, which otherwise would have been impossible to do since the U-Boat pens were in all effect impervious, and the workers had repeatedly and quickly repaired damage done to the refineries.
For all the evil of the anglos, I will not shed any tears over Nazi military industrial workers and their families dying. Each U-Boat those longshoremen built would kill hundreds of British, American, and Soviet sailors, and each drop of oil and petrol those refineries produced would fuel Nazi tanks and planes on their missions.
Wow the account of firebombings sounds brutal. It is hard to tell who between the American leadership and the Japanese leadership had more disdain for the Japanese people.
They were horrific. The firebombings were responsible for more casualties and destruction than the atomic bombs. And neither made much difference to the course of the war. Given that these sorts of bombing campaigns serve very little military purpose i think it’s clear that they should be classified as war crimes.
Every time you look in history at this sort of thing you see the exact same thing: massive civilian toll for little to no military benefit. The Nazi Luftwaffe’s raids on London, Allied bombing raids on Germany, the firebombing of Japan, US bombing campaigns in Korea and Vietnam, now the Zionist bombing of Gaza…none of these broke the resolve or significantly degraded the military capabilities of the adversary. They are simply punitive campaigns against the civilian population.
If you want additional horror, read about the fire bombing of Hamburg. Living quarters of workers were the targets.
Anglos love to kill civilians.
Wouldn’t bombing the factory and dock workers actively manning Nazi production plants be a valid reason for targeting?
They weren’t some neutral pacifist city caught off guard by a violent attack. The firestorm occurred in neighborhoods predominantly committed to housing longshoremen building U-Boats at the docks, working civilian jobs at the port such as resupplying U-Boats, and working at the synthetic oil refineries near the docks.
Displacing those workers essentially throttled U-Boat construction in Hamburg, which otherwise would have been impossible to do since the U-Boat pens were in all effect impervious, and the workers had repeatedly and quickly repaired damage done to the refineries.
For all the evil of the anglos, I will not shed any tears over Nazi military industrial workers and their families dying. Each U-Boat those longshoremen built would kill hundreds of British, American, and Soviet sailors, and each drop of oil and petrol those refineries produced would fuel Nazi tanks and planes on their missions.