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To: AppyPappy
That's moronic. The Germans had war industry in those cities.

The industry was on the outskirts of the cities, while we targeted the Cathedral steeples to center the firestorm. Using a firestorm to destroy industrial capacity is a bit akin to using a bazooka as a flyswatter. Lastly, the bombing campaign had no effect on German industrial production. German war materials production was never higher than in late 1944 right before the actual invasion of Germany proper. The Allied bombing campaign destroyed countless millions of people and a treasury of the human spirit in irrelaceable architecture, art, and craftsmanship.

The Jews weren't exactly making B-24's in the ghettos.

Actually, that is exactly what they were doing. Why do you think the Germans had them locked up in them? To starve to death?

And don't you know that the big concentration camps, like Auschwitz-Birkenau provided the staffing of major war materials industrial works, int he case of Auschwitz, many inmates worked at the adjacent Buna Synthetic Rubber plant.

But you are missing the point. What is the moral difference between the Germans gassing Jewish civilians and the Allies burning up German civilians in firestorms?

46 posted on 05/09/2005 1:22:12 PM PDT by Hermann the Cherusker
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To: Hermann the Cherusker
What is the moral difference between the Germans gassing Jewish civilians and the Allies burning up German civilians in firestorms?

The Jews weren't working for the allies. The Germans were working for the Axis.

48 posted on 05/09/2005 1:27:10 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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To: Hermann the Cherusker
The Jews weren't exactly making B-24's in the ghettos.
Actually, that is exactly what they were doing. Why do you think the Germans had them locked up in them?

The assertion that the Jews were locked up for the crime of producing industrial goods for the Allies is moonbattery on a level that makes DU look like a font of wisdom.

66 posted on 05/10/2005 6:07:14 AM PDT by steve-b (A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
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