Maybe the guy doesn’t realize that London was bombed and 40,000 to 43,000 of residents in the city were laid six feet under. As for the Germans....all they had to do was surrender and the bombing raids on Germany would have come to an end.
Is he talking about the fire bombing of Dresden?
That war was fought with different rules.
Andrews would have enemy soldiers convicted in court before you could shoot them....
They killed white people, so what’s his problem?
Indiscriminately bombing civilians was awful. I’m not going to say it was anything but.
That said, it was not defined as a war crime at the time by any of the conventions of war to which the warring powers were signatories.
A second point is that the Axis started it. They bombed Warsaw, Rotterdam, Shanghai, London, Coventry and lots of other places on a large scale before the Allies started returning the favor on Axis cities. Its horrible for the civilians in those cities but their own regimes are to blame for it.
One Dambuster left. One Doolittle Raider left. WW2 is rapidly moving from living history to the history books.
It is OK by him for Nazi atrocities, centuries of religious cleansing by the Muslims and others because the crusades and defense or the free world were mostly by Christians. Kinda shows the mindset of the talking heads.
This will frag the thread nicely.
Dresden, breast-out lactation activists, and a few other subjects here bring out the worst in some of us.
That’s completely sick. Bomber command had some of the most heroic people in World War II, and suffered some of the most horrendous losses as they hammered nazis. RAF Bomber command losses were about 45% dead.
The UK today is a bunch of ingrates Unworthy of their sacrifice
The UK is gone. Take a good. This will be the US in maybe 5 years if it is not stopped.
Oh, there are plenty of Brits who think this way. They hate Bomber Harris. I guess they would have all preferred for Hitler to rule over them, I guess.
And what about the German Luftwaffe?
Dr Kehinde Andrews Professor of Black Studies
School of Social Sciences
Email: Kehinde.andrews@bcu.ac.uk
Kehinde is an [Sociology] academic, activist and author whose books include Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century (2018). His first book was Resisting Racism: Race, Inequality and the Black Supplementary School Movement (2013).
Kehinde led leading the development of the Black Studies degree and is director of the Centre for Critical Social Research; founder of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity; and co-chair of the Black Studies Association.
Tell that to the Holocaust survivors.
Isn’t it amazing how elitist educational parasites,condemn freedoms warriors who saved their right to free speech. To bad their ancestors weren’t in the planes or trenches.
“”They have “Insert Grievance Group” Studies in the UK too.””
Very appropriate.. Every hour on the hour a new one pops up.
Even immediately after the war, the sheeple of formerly great Britain were so divided over the bombing of civilian targets that they never erected a monument to the RAF bomber command until 2012.
Three days ago the monument was vandalized.
I guess they never thought that was fair retribution for the Huns having bombed London in both world wars.
Pathetic revisionist bullsh*t.
I’ve heard these arguments before and I believe Pat Buchanan makes similar sympathetic references in his books on World War II.
If only we could run wars today by WWII standards, but we can’t, because under today’s wars run by JAG lawyers, these things would be considered war crimes.
As horrible as Dresden was, my response is, sucks to be you that you started the damn war, Germany. I have little sympathies for the nations that start a war, and their ancestors decades later bitch about how the war was conducted.
Calling the RAF and USAAF war criminals is the equivalent of being a Holocaust denier/apologist. Piers should be shunned by all polite company.