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Originally Posted by Catfish
Originally Posted by mapuc 
When you invade a country the entire population is your enemy and should be treated as such.
All right, what else is indiscriminate area bombing of civilian targets like cities then? |
I didn't say it was the only example one could think of but it's certainly a better one than that. Unless of course you could show that by the WW2 Allies stopping strategic bombing in their areas it would have convinced say Bavaria or Baden-Wurttemburg to turn against the Berlin Government in 1943 or 44.
I used the example I did because there was a lot of built up resentment against the Soviets in the satellite nations like Ukraine and the Baltics, that the Germans could have used to their advantage had they played their cards better. Instead they treated everyone they met as an enemy to be annihilated (now know as the Mapuc Strategy
) so instead of getting willing cannon fodder up at the front they had a bunch of pissed off partisans in their rear areas.