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The shocking thing to me is that this is the side that won. This is what victory looks like, even when the other side doesn't have nukes.
by lsc 9y ago
The shocking thing to me is that this is the side that won. This is what victory looks like, even when the other side doesn't have nukes.
- lostlogin 9y agoYes, and that map shows the hits London took. Britain received something like 75,000 tons of German bombs. British and American bombers dropped something a bit short of 2 millions tons on Germany. It was on a whole different scale in Germany. This book covers is well. https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/27/bombing-war-europe-richard-overy-review https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/201...
- org3432 9y agoThe part that always surprised me about the blitz is only 28k killed and 25k wounded. How is that even possible? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blitz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blitz > Civilian casualties on London throughout the Blitz amounted to 28,556 killed, and 25,578 wounded.
- lostlogin 9y agoThat seems a lot of dead to me, but it is a lot less than later bombing caused and the lack of firestorms is the reason. The allies put a lot of effort into optimising conditions for causing them.
- jackaroe78 9y agoWar is hell
- mmjaa 9y agoThats a very good point - it seems the war is still being fought, ideologically - or else there'd be a balancing act and we'd be seeing the tragedy on the German side too.
- sgt101 9y agoI don't understand your comment; I can see the tragedy on "The German" side... I think that it's horrible that a nation of normal people got hijacked by a mad gang and then herded, bullied and tricked into an absolute catastrophe. The actual end of Prussia... millions dead.. all major cities flattened.. a sizable percentage of survivors raped.. how can anyone not understand the tragedy of that? Germany was partitioned for fifty years, it's still occupied. It's mind boggling.
- mmjaa 9y agoI'm just saying that it'd be more interesting to see the entire dataset for the war, not just one side ...
- digi_owl 9y agoAnd then came the Vietnam war...
- lsc 9y agoThat was somewhat different, just because it was a great power waging war on a small and (comparatively) powerless country, rather than a great power waging war on another great power.