12-06-2007, 08:45 PM
I know it all too well. I'm from Poland, around 6 milions of polish citizens were killed during WW II and it's not like I'm justifying japanese and german actions. In fact some people from my family were killed by soviets (yes soviets not germans).
The thing is: if japanese or german army killed 100 000 civilians in a bombardment or whatever it's called crime against humanity, but if americans or brits did it's called "lesser evil" or "unavoidable losses".
And I'm talking about the fact that many innocent Axis officers were sentenced for war crimes they didn't commited (or were forced to commit them) just becouse they were fighting for the "bad" side while soldiers and politics from allied nations were also responsible for many crimes and nothing happened to them.
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