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To: GeorgefromGeorgia
who were waging all-out war, a war utterly unlike that of the Germans.”

Absolute horsesh*t.

The firebombing of Dresden took place in February of 1945.

"I ask you: Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?"

-National Socialist propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, in his famous Sportpalast speech, on 18 February, 1943

The 1930s and 40s Germans (the leaders at least, and the people to the degree that they supported those leaders) got precisely what they wanted. They asked for total war, they purposed total war, they supported total war, they planned total war, they implemented total war, and they got total war. They just didn't plan to themselves end up on the hard end of the stick. Sorry, Fritz, but that's the risk you run when you decide to just go out and beat the Scheisse out of and murder millions of other people.

And I'm not saying there weren't plenty of innocent, decent German citizens. But on the whole, the German people of that generation made the mistake of following a brutal, murderous thug - and they paid the almost inevitable price for making that decision.

64 posted on 08/23/2007 2:50:27 PM PDT by Luke Skyfreeper
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To: Luke Skyfreeper
I agree with your post. I didn’t make that horsesh*t statement. The NAZIs were know for their retaliation of partisan attacks on their forces in Yugoslavia, Greece, Netherlands, France and Eastern Europe. Total war was necessary to hasten the end of the war.
74 posted on 08/23/2007 5:00:07 PM PDT by GeorgefromGeorgia
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