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You ever watch "Band of Brothers" in its entirety? In one of the later episodes there's a great juxtaposition of two scenes. In the first scene (early in the episode), Capt. Nixon - having run out of scotch - is rummaging through a German house and is confronted by an up-tight and decidedly holier than thou German Officer's Widow.

In the second one (later in the episode) Nix and the widow again run into each other ... as she's stumbling around being forced to move corpses into burial pits at the local concentration camp.

Hitler and the Nazis were elected, their rise to power was supported by an all-too-willing German population swooning over smartly tailored uniforms, goose-stepping, charismatic oratory, Oompah-Bands playing nationalistic tunes and a fervent hatred of the evil JOOOOOOOOS ... and all too willing to look the other way when it came to rail-cars, smokestacks and somewhat pungent smells arising from just over the next hill.

My grandfather was part of a force that liberated one of those camps. So excuse me if I don't have much sympathy for the women Bomber Command "barbequed". I do have sympathy for the innocent children, but am very much of the opinion that their blood is on the hands of their parents and elders ... not Bomber Harris and his airmen.