[pmoriarty]

"Butchering civilian populations wholesale was normal. The Americans and British did not play by those rules"

Perhaps you are not aware of the firebombing of German and Japanese cities, where as many or more civilians died as in the nuclear bomb detonations over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which perhaps you also forget.

[__s]

Vonnegut's a good read for this, often gets into Dresden

[qrendel]

Specifically, Vonnegut was present at and survived the bombing of Dresden, which became part of (the main?) the inspiration for Slaughterhouse-Five: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut#World_War_II

The book makes a lot more sense once you understand Vonnegut's history with the bombing.

[jhbadger]

Sadly, Vonnegut quotes David Irving's "The Destruction of Dresden" as a source for the number of dead (extremely inflated over other sources). Sadly because although Vonnegut didn't know it at the time, Irving was a Holocaust denier who wanted to rehabilitate the reputation of the Nazis by showing them to be no worse than the Allies.

[nickik]

Ah, those famous Rape bombs.

[cyberferret]

Hmm...because having the flesh burned off your bones or dying slowly of long term radiation sickness etc. is a better option than being raped and bayonetted? Why don't we take a straw poll on that?

[iwontreddit]

I guess you haven't heard of the mass rape of german and japanese women by the victorious allies. The allies raped far more women than the axis.

[nickik]

The allies had far less incidents of rape. And defently not systematic like Japan. If you really beliefe that its clear that you have never actually studied the issue.

[iwontreddit]

>The allies had far less incidents of rape. And defently not systematic like Japan.

Systematic? Is that a joke? Millions more german and japanese women were raped by the allies than vice versa.

Lets not belittle the german and japanese women who were raped.

[Inconel]

The allies raped far more women than the axis.

I'd be very appreciative if you could link to a source for this claim.

[iwontreddit]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_...

Millions of german women were raped by the allies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_...

Tens of thousands of japanese women were raped after ww2. The only reason that more japanese women weren't raped was because the japanese government provided "comfort women" for the allied troops.

[Inconel]

Thanks for the links.