NAZIS ASK FOR THREE-DAY CEASE FIRE;

Conservativehumor.net ^ | 08-07-06 | Ricky Acuchillador

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[Grampa Dave]

Excellent.

[Grampa Dave]

Great satire on how the current Hatriotics in charge of our MSM would have reported on WWII,

[Restorer]

“Hundreds of civilian men, women and children have been killed by what seems to be indiscriminate Allied bombing,”

It didn't just seem to be. It was indiscriminate.

Both the Americans and (especially) the British used an area bombardment strategy in which cities were attacked intentionally, with the explicit goal of killing as many civilians as possible.

This was supposed to "break the German will to resist."

Didn't work.

[AdAstraPerArdua]

'Both the Americans and (especially) the British used an area bombardment strategy in which cities were attacked intentionally, with the explicit goal of killing as many civilians as possible.

This was supposed to "break the German will to resist."

Didn't work.'

That's because the bombs were too small. When the US targeted Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the explicit goal of killing as many civillians as possible, only with much bigger bombs, it worked very well. . . . .

[Restorer]

The military effect of The Bombs were almost entirely on morale and psychology. The actual destruction and deaths they caused could have been (and were being) duplicated by firestorm raids on the Japanese cities. More people died in the firestorm raid on Tokyo than in either Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

However, the psychological impact of a single plane dropping a single bomb and destroying an entire city must have been immense.

[WilliamWallace1999]

We won didn't we? Every dead German was one less to pick up a gun. To say that the resources Germans expended defending their cities and the fighter pilots they sacrificed in a hopeless effort did not degrade their ability to wage war is silly. We had complete air supremacy by D-Day. That didn't just happen. Germany was waging their second war in a generation. They needed to be defeated utterly.

[Frances_Marion]

Didn't work when Hitler tried it on the British either.

Way I see it, the British were just delivering some payback with Dresden and such.

[MrEdd]

Didn't work.

Nope We're still fighting them.

[Restorer]

The stated goal of "area bombardment" was to "break the German will." It failed in this. It had other military effects that contributed to the shortening of the war, as you note.

Every dead German was one less to pick up a gun.

True. Except that since most German men were off in the military, those affected by the area bombing were primarily civilians, mostly women and children.

[Restorer]

But it was disproportionate payback. Can't have that.

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[ichabod1]

Most of the people were in bomb shelters. I have to believe a lot of them died of asphyxiation. Now we have the Massive Ordinance Air Burst (MOAB) and other fuel-air ordinance to do it much more easier.

[Turbo Pig]

This was supposed to "break the German will to resist." Didn't work.

Yes, it did, we just did not see the "benifits" until after the shooting stopped. The Germans were beaten down and did not have the will or where-with-all to resist occupation.

[Restorer]

Area bombing was supposed to make the Germans stop fighting. It didn't do that.

The invasion and conquest of Germany by the Allied and Red Armies did accomplish it.

Area bombing helped to some extent, but its contribution to Nazi defeat was not even close to being in proportion to its cost in dollars and in flight crew and civilian deaths.

[battlegearboat]

PAYBACK is a BITCH!

[weegee]

The famous "anti-fascist" Communist Woody Guthrie urged peace, that we not go to war against Hitler, until he betrayed Uncle Joe Stalin.

poseur

Webster's Main Entry: po·seur
Function: noun
Etymology: French
Date: 1872
- a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person

[weegee]

[ClearBlueSky]

Thank you!
It worked just fine! Thousands fewer German/Nazi sympathizers.
You'd think people would learn from history- or just the laws of cause and effect!
Start sh*t, GET sh*it.
Today Muslims =Nazis.
There were NO 'good Nazis' then. It would have been ludicrous-and treasonous- to suggest that only the SS were 'bad' Nazis, and that Nazism inherently bad.
Only the names have changed now.
If you believe in something inherently evil, you are evil.
It's so simple no one wants to face it.

[AmericanDave]

"It didn't just seem to be. It was indiscriminate."

Maybe indescriminate, but not innacurate.

As LT Beldon Cooper in his book "Deathtraps" on his days in WWII in Army Ordinance. His account of entering Cologne (after knocking out a stubborn Panther tank, with a brand new Pershing tank) said that all of the city was rubble with the exception of the famous Koln Cathedral, and the Ford Motor Company factory...