soc.history.war.world-war-ii

On Mar 20, 11:14 am, Dick C wrote:
> I disagree entirely on this point. Hypocrisy has rarely, if ever,
> been a factor in any political decision. And there is a saying, to the
> victor goes the spoils. One of the spoils is the ability to prosecute the
> losers for wars, while ignoring the war crimes that the winners committed.
> There were plenty of crimes committed by all parties of WWII, but the only
> people prosecuted were leaders of the losing side.
>

Fortunately one sees this argument fairly rarely, and always, always
by those without many facts to get in the way of this glib argument.

But Dick, I've really love to see the Allied crimes comparable to
German Sondercommandos and KZ's or Japanese behavior in China and
Korea.

On the allied side:
Forget about city bombing, both sides did it, the Allies were just
*better* at it.
A-Bombs, the concensus is that dropping these bombs saved lives by
shortening the war.
So what's left that makes the Allies hypocrites and moral equals to
the nations that started the war?