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Originally Posted by Col Frost
I'm always impressed by the war in North Africa, very few civilans killed, prisoners treated well by both sides.
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The war in North Africa probably seems clean because it was mostly fought in a barren void where the environment was as great a foe as the opposing side. No great body of civilians to get in the line of fire between the armies. The Western Desert between Libya and Egypt where the principal fighting took place was at home at the time to only a tiny population of Arabs and nomadic Bedouins who stayed aloof from the fighting and were indifferent in the who victor was. Consequently, It didn't have the ugly idealogical or racial bent of the war in Europe or the Pacific. It's possible things might have been different had the Axis reached one of the great cities of the Middle East with their large Jewish populations