Merlin yes I do remember that thread. The Geneva convention is tosh in total war. We try and uphold it but in WW2 it went out the window once the SS Athenia was sunk. We fought for our lives during the Blitz on such places as London,Coventry,Liverpool,Bristol and I could go on and on. Our side destroyed Dresden which was of no military significance. British Civilian deaths were 67000 during the war.
In total war who cares about the Geneva convention? not many so one dead Nazi? good I could not care less. “Knights of the air” went out of the window in WW1. If you wanted to uphold the Geneva convention all bomber crews should have been held to account on both sides and hung along with their commanders.We won that war due to the selfless action of all allied forces and I take my hat of to them and their sacrifice for our today.
Fortunately we in Afghanistan uphold it and treat Taliban casualties with the best treatment available which is more than they would do to ours. So we have moved on but war is different these days.
Where was the Geneva Convention when 50 escapies from Stalag Luft 111 were murdered by the Gestapo?
The means justified the ends in my book
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The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.
Sir Arthur Harris.
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