[Central_Floridian]

For those who think that terrorism against the Nazis was effective, I would like to point out that in Poland, whenever a Nazi was killed by the partisans, 50-100 Poles were killed in retaliation, and 20-30 Jews in the KZs as well. Acts of sabotage like damaging bridges or trains were similiarly punished.
When the Nazi SS commander of Czecholslavokia, Reynhard Heydrich (sp?) was killed by a car bomb, the Nazis simply increased their executions of Jews and subversives and slaughtered the town of Lidice(sp?), killing around 350 people.
Violence simply breeds more violence. Fighting something bad with violence is like fighting a house fire with dynamite; even when such extreme methods work, they destroy much as well.

[Delphinium]

The reason Hitler did this was to silence anyone else who tried to appose him.

I really don't know enough about what caused America to finally get involved. I need to start studying that part of history more.

[aristeides]

Goebbels and his propaganda machine also called our bombing of Germany "terror bombing". I was reading last night the interrogation of Albert Speer after the war about how effective our bombing had been.