a think your right, the holocaust must take 1st place, but not because of the scale. much more people were killed by Japan in Asia than in the...
Yes the Soviet regime killed millions (although 50 million, a third of the USSR's population seems a bit exagerated) but the men of the Red Army...
Of course I was not suggesting the 'majority' were involved (good story by the way) i was pointing out that many German soldiers, worn by the...
yes, but what happened in Tokyo was way beyond collateral damage. the allies used heavy fire bombing, knowing that the effect on the Japanese...
actually a good point in some bombing raids, a huge percentage of those killed were slave labour. These people, particuarly Russians, Jews and...
i agree with almost everything you've said, except for your views of the werhmachts participation in war crimes. the SS gets way too much...
of course i lay no blame on the crews, mainly Harris and his superiors who were obcessed with bombing cities when it was clear they had no...
I would definately say that the main driving force through the 20th Century was extreme politics, both left and right. The end of World War two...
What about after 1945, when there was no military advantage to the bombing of cities? railways and oil fields maybe, but not cities. strange how...
I recently read Max Hasting's book on the Pacific War, where he says the Japanese killed less people than the Germans all and all. And I...
I saw a similar poll somewhere on the internet and thought it would be an interesting discussion topic on here. Of course they're all terrible and...
i agree that the pact was to get both nations breathing space, but if Stalin knew concretely of Hitlers Intentions, why did he refuse to believe...
no one here is saying that conditions in soviet prison camps were good. the soviets hated the Germans, and many treated POWS accordingly. What im...
claims that the USSR were planning to attack Germany are nonsense. Sloniksp is right; Stalin shared Lenin's view that the "world revolution" was...
just something I jotted down earlier.. glass dreams of a mirror-lake, only peace reflected, no ripples crack its soft smooth shimmer, for no...
well if you read above you'll see that I think that the germans exaggerated the death toll for POWS. it does not compare with the shocking way the...
this is very true, the war the germans waged in the east was a racially driven one from the beginning. the germans purposely didn't provide for...
"Come and See"- not a holocaust film but a film about german atrocities truly the most disturbing masterpiece of a war film I have ever...
yes, but the poor treatment of POWS by the soviets has been exaggerated. it was mainly after stalingrad that there were huge deaths for german...
why, in the west, is there a tendancy for people to sympathise more with the germans when it comes to the eastern front, rather than the soviets?...
