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> So they made it easier to justify attacks, and harder to prosecute such attacks as war crimes? Yes. It's worth noting that the idea of "international law" r
by nl 4y ago
> So they made it easier to justify attacks, and harder to prosecute such attacks as war crimes?
Yes.
It's worth noting that the idea of "international law" really only became a thing with the Nuremberg trials. Before that it was assumed people would do the right thing, or something...
- simonh 4y agoI agree you could make a reasonable case that the allied bombing campaign on Dresden at al should have been war crimes, but the fact is they were not, and nobody at the time had any expectation that they could or would be. There would have been no legal basis, even a flimsy one, for prosecuting them as such.