That storied history seems to be repeating since 2007-8.
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Look, whether Dresden is a war crime or not is probably going to be a matter of debate until the end of time (I’d personally say it’s not, mostly because there’s sufficient evidence to suggest that it was a major communications/transportation hub for the Nazis and thus was a valid military target, but nevertheless), but I actually get pretty irritated when people imply that the German people merely elected Hitler. He was never “elected”, he simply got appointed to the Chancellorship by Paul Hindenberg, and there was evidence he did it due to senility. And even if he WERE actually elected, to be fair to the German people, barely any of the parties that were competing were all that good. Even ignoring the Nazis, which were evil, there was also the German Communist Party which had they been elected would have proven to be just as bad as if not even WORSE than the Nazis, and the Social Democrats were basically Socialist lite, not much better than either other than maybe not being as overt about it. Not helping matters being that the SA brownshirts basically did voter intimidation as well, as well as beat up opposition. Just as an FYI, we had something similar occur with both elections of Obama.
In any case, that aside, I do ultimately agree that we definitely should teach more about Nuremberg or Tokyo (heck, especially Tokyo since the only post-war trials covered were the Nuremberg trials). Although personally, I think we should have tried to hold trials AGAINST the Soviets during the Nuremberg trials.