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The damage the V2s inflicted on London paled in comparison to the destruction of continental European and Russian and Japanese cities. The V2 killed more (ensl
by vkou 3y ago
The damage the V2s inflicted on London paled in comparison to the destruction of continental European and Russian and Japanese cities.
The V2 killed more (enslaved) people who were building it than it did in its attacks. It was only 'successful' as a propaganda weapon.
...And by the standards of the Nuremberg trials, the heads of every allied airforce, and all of their immediate subordinates and sub-subordinates should have been dancing the hemp fandango.
I'll also point out that a lot of Nazi military officers and civilian leaders and industrialists, despite significant involvement in the regime's crimes were not found guilty[1] in those trials.
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[1] Even in the Soviet-ran ones - and as every loyal comrade knows, the courts of the glorious Soviet Union are the fairest, most humane, and most merciful justice system the world has ever conceived, especially when it came to the question of judging fascists.
- octopoc 3y ago> And by the standards of the Nuremberg trials, the heads of every allied airforce, and all of their immediate subordinates and sub-subordinates should have been dancing the hemp fandango. That's a very good point, although the Nuremberg trials used torture to get confessions, so literally anybody could have been convicted.
- vkou 3y agoDid they? Is that why so many walked? Were the ones that were hanged not actually intimately involved in orchestrating a war of aggression and the murder of human beings on a scale unprecedented in the history of the modern world? Do you have any proof of this?