Well, of course I did. You think the Holocaust was a war crime?? It was not! It was happening regardless of war as far as I understand the Germans motivations.

Well, of course I did. You think the Holocaust was a war crime?? It was not! It was happening regardless of war as far as I understand the Germans motivations. Yes, it may be an even worse crime (though I would argue that because it happened over many years - you need to take that into account - the Americans would probably kill the full Japanese population if they had not surrended, given enough time), but not a "war crime". They were not killing Jews to force them to surrender or something... they were trying to exterminate them in Europe simply because of their ideology. The Allies were not fighting to protect the Jews either, mind you. No one really knew the extent of the gas chambers at the time, and I suspect a lot of people in the Allies countries didn't actually mind much anyway - given just how racist their own societies were at the time (I hope I don't need to remind you how blacks/asians and even Italians were treated in America in the 1930's).