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Originally Posted by Iriemon  I can agree we can debate whether bombing in wartime constitutes war crimes. |
Bombing
of civilian targets (like Dresden) are war crimes, not the bombing of V2 factories in Pennemunde.
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But you have not convinced me it compares with the systematic murder of millions of people because of their religious beliefs.
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I don't compare it with that. There was nothing like the Holocaust on the Allied side.
I'm rather talking about
- policies about not taking prisonners on the Pacific Front (which is IMO similar to Germans executing their Russian prisonners) and letting thousands of German POWs starving after the war (which is comparable to a certain extent to UK/US POWs starving in Burma)
- unnecessary bombing of civilian objectives in order to terrorise the population (there have been Köln, Dresden, and to a lesser extend Tokyo and Hamburg (who was destroyed while only its harbor had a strategic importance) which is comparable to the bombing of London and several other UK cities during the Blitz
- mutilation of Japanese deads, and more generally considering them as subhumans (= Germans considering Russians as subhumans)
- the deportation of millions of people who wanted to flee from USSR, and which led to the death of many of them.