[annalex]

The USA, Germany, and Britain were signatories of a number of treaties and conventions that regulate proper behavior in an armed conflict. Deliberately attacking civilians was wrong for the Germans to do, and also wrong for the Allies to do.

The best that is sometimes said about all these bombings on both sides is that they were technically legitimate at the time, but the Geneva Convention of 1949 condemns it. An of course look at it as you may, there were massive avoidable civilian casualties.

[jmacusa]

There is no such thing as ‘’avoidable’’ civilian causalities in war going back thousands of years. All those murdered in the Holocaust, were they avoidable? The Germans made the rules and the rules were everything and everyone is a target. Toatalerkreig said Goebbels , in German that means ‘’total war. War isn't a game of cricket. It's a slaughter of humanity at every level.

[dfwgator]

The Germans sure lost their thirst for war though didn’t they.

A far cry from the end of WWI when they were convinced they only lost because they were “stabbed in the back.”