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Originally Posted by Wulfmann
As far as worst atrocities, I assume you mean nautical. The 10.5 million (4.5 Million Jews and 6 million gentiles) killed in the camps might be the worst!!!
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You're right of course. It wasn't my intention to size up one atrocity to another, just to show that all parties concerned did some terrible things. The Japanese worked tens of thousands of Chinese to death, the British purposely bombed civilians in the German cities trying to break their will and utterly failing to do that, the Americans incinerated the population of two whole cities full of civilians and let the rest die of exposure, and the Russian government under Stalin turned on their own people and had several million killed.
When it comes to the death toll my ancestors still get the credit for being the worst and I guess it's well-deserved.
However: think about one thing: had the axis powers won the war (and thank god they didn't!) what would you think would've become of the Hiroshima atomic bomb in history?