[Wulfmann]

First of all, war is in itself an atrocity.

Second, the most despicable act in human history was the holocaust. Nazis Germans that were in charge directed many others, murdered 10.5 million people including 4.5 million Jews (6 million Jews died in WWII total from all causes, Israeli gov figures)

But, the German have taken responsibility (as much as can be considered possible as there will never be atonement).

I have been to both Israel and Germany and spoke with many people on this subject. It is not swept under the rug as some suggest. Germany had paid huge reparations to Israel and individuals.
Japan, however, refuses to even talk about the dastardly atrocities it committed. The Germans never treated American prisoners in the despicable manner the Japanese did.
They’re continued silence and refusal to pay compensation to me is like a crime gone unpunished. The people I spoke to in China liked Americans fine but they hate with a passion the Japanese and it is more the lack of admitting to what they did that causes this bad feeling.

The Russians take the cake for mistreating their own people. In that there is not contest. I spoke with a Russian official in Spain in 1993 and he estimates 20 million Russians were killed by Stalin in purges and 30 million would be possible.

Dresden had many refugees because of the shrinking front and we will never know the true number. 30,000 is not realistic nor is 200,000 both seem to serve the wants of those making the estimates. The likely number is 80-100,000 but there will never be a way to know for sure. Even though it was meant to show the Russians what they could expect (and did not work hence Hiroshima and Nagasaki) we were at war and any such city was a target. Germans blame the war not the Yanks or Brits for Dresden.

You can’t target soldiers with exploding bullets but if you aim for their equipment it is legal. So you aim for the belt buckle. How stupid is that? And, you can throw exploding hand grenades but can’t fire exploding bullets. Who thinks this is at all rational.

Anyone that advocates starting a war should be ready to be burnt to the ground and every person killed. If we dropped all rules for conducting war and made it open to any means perhaps there would be fewer wars. War is insanity unleashed. Pleading insanity for a war crime would be close to the truth.

Wulfmann