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 ::I'm honestly sick of the apologist rhetoric that people accept. Germany started the war, and conducted it in the most savage way imaginable. They were free to surrender at various points when it was utterly clear that the war was lost, but they didn't. The same goes for Japan regarding Hiroshima and Nagasaki. From the point of view of British and American bomber commands, any number of enemy civilians could die if only to save a single allied soldier's life. This is war. Only after the war do you hear people talking about ""holding back."" It's terrible, brutal, and wasteful, and the blame needs to be on those who started it.  "