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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire
You dont know what you are talking about.
The Versailles treaty was TOO harsh on Germany and that is why they went about things differently after WW2.
Furthermore... how is this related to the atomic bomb?
Im not second guessing anything... The bombs were dropped and that is just a part of history now. When Japanese people remember the days... it is generally speaking NOT an anti-American day.
What pisses me off is when Americans feel they need to justify the act using history that is actually pretty wrong.
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You posted an article which stated that the Allied demands of a unconditional surrender were unjustified. From the experiences learned in WW1, the Allies indeed thought it was, and in order to quickly force an unconditional surrender the bombs were dropped. The relationship is obvious.
No, the Treaty of Versailles was not harsh enough. Exactly how should a country which starts a war that kills millions be punished? With a slap on the wrist and a return to the way things were before the war started? Not only was the Treaty of Versailles not harsh enough, the provisions it did contain were never seriously enforced. A war-weary League of Nations ignored Germany as Germany rearmed under Hitler, and as a result the world had to endure a far worse war.
And it is not just Americans who feel dropping that the bombs was justified. If you look at the video that Dogsbody posted you'll see that quite a few Brits, Aussies, Dutch, and others in Asia feel the same way. These are people who's opinions count because they lived through the war and suffered it's hardships. And yes, there are even a number of Japanese who also feel the dropping of the bombs was justified. These people don't have an incorrect opinion about history because it isn't history to them, they experienced the war firsthand.
What pisses me off is that the Japan of nowadays rewrites history in an attempt to erase from memory the acts of barbarism which they committed during the war. More than 100,000 prisoners died during the building of the Burma/Thailand railroad, further hundreds of thousands died elsewhere in Asian, and this is aside from those who were killed outright when it was too inconvenient to take prisoners. Japan's Unit 731 is not mentioned in any Japanese textbook, yet this unit committed atrocities which made Himmler's concentration camp activities look tame. And of course the atrocities committed in Nanking and other places are downplayed or simply omitted. But the dropping of the bombs is well-covered, and in graphic detail.
It is not America's view of history which is mistaken.