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British-U.S. terror-bombing of German civilians ― represented?
You know, as Churchill called it, the "demoralisation campaign" ― the "terror" (*Churchill's term) war waged on the German non combatants (inc. some Italian and French cities), that spanned the entirety of the WW2 (and beyond) ― incorporating conventional munitions, but also the liberal use of incendiary bombs, resulting in 240kph "fire storms" which "melted" human beings down to "green slime and bones" ― incurring causalities numbering in the tens of thousands for each city assailed ― while simultaneous 'curiously' leaving the U.S. factories that built and sustained the Nazi war machine (e.g., General Motors, Ford, General Electric, Ford, Standard Oil) unscathed ― starting four months before the highly propagandised "Blitz" on London began, and continuing well past the Wehrmach's effective defeat ("Operation Gomorrah" / the bombing of Dresden) ― a political directive enacted under the tenuous, failed and false pretext of forcing domestic political change in German, through the infliction of grievous casualty numbers of men, women and child non combatants... Are these "good guy" actions depicted or referenced in this game in any way...?

" [F]or excellent reasons, [the government] has preferred the world to think that we still held some scruples and attacked only what the humanitarians are pleased to call 'Military Targets'. I can assure you, gentlemen, that we tolerate no scruples! "
―Charles Portal, Nov. 1941 (commander-in-chief, British bomber command)

PS: I take it that the fire-bombing of the tatami paper and wood comprised, non military, non combatant, civilian city of Tokyo, by the U.S. ― immolating 150,000 people (compare: the 40,000 deaths from the infamous Hiroshima atomic 'smoke signal' sent to Soviet Russia) ― does not fall within the scope of this particular game's remit...?

(thanks in advance)

Some references:
Tea tippling terror:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/11410633/Dresden-was-a-civilian-town-with-no-military-significance.-Why-did-we-burn-its-people.html
Who foments, fund and profits from war?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdNCr1MjROU
Nippon napalm:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-war-crimes-the-march-1945-firebombing-of-tokyo-americas-great-tokyo-air-raid/5435775
The Grave of Fireflies:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095327/
Last edited by You Kissed a Boy and Liked It; Oct 19, 2017 @ 2:53pm
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Steve Oct 19, 2017 @ 2:56pm 
The jerries started it, we ended it.
Crusader Oct 19, 2017 @ 2:57pm 
we killed there citys and they killed 18% of the total pop of the USSR so it evens out
Trixie_I Oct 19, 2017 @ 3:17pm 
Heh.
Zenith Oct 19, 2017 @ 3:18pm 
I don't think so. Probably wouldn't go down too well with the media, who are just looking for reasons to ban all videos games these days!

Edit: As for the morality of it, you reap what you sow. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
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SealTeamFish Oct 19, 2017 @ 3:21pm 
plz go back to ur transgender bathroom with this post....
Jonnydodger Oct 19, 2017 @ 3:36pm 
Lock this thread, it can only go bad.
British-US bombings of cities and industrial areas killed at least 350000 German Civilians. Which was considered disappointing by the USAAF. Compared to the 6 million Jews who died in concentration camps, the around 10 million Soviet civilian deaths brought about by the German invasion (though one must admit that could have been caused by the Soviets themselves as much as the Germans), and even compared to the God know's how many German men, women and children killed/raped/commited suicide when the Soviets entered Germany in 1945, I don't think the 'terror bombing' is that big a deal in the grand scheme of things.
Also, yes, the bombing of industrial areas is shown in game. That's the reality of war. People die.
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Date Posted: Oct 19, 2017 @ 2:52pm
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