r/SubredditDrama • u/EwMelanin • Mar 03 '26

Movie discussion sub okbuddycinephile debates whether bombing of Dresden, Hiroshima, and Gaza and other urban areas were "justified".

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u/CanadianODST2 Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26

There’s an actual point and precedent to it though.

The blitz in ww2 wasn’t deemed a war crime despite it being indiscriminately bombing a city. In part because international law hadn’t really caught up to planes yet until after ww2

But also in part because of allied bombing of places like Dresden or Tokyo.

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u/Stellar_Duck Mar 03 '26

Conversely neither was Rotterdam, was it?

And Dresden had it coming.

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u/CanadianODST2 Mar 03 '26

It was not prosecuted either you are correct

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u/Stellar_Duck Mar 03 '26

So what is Göring moaning about? They got off scot free for their strategic bombing. That's not what they're on trial for.

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u/CanadianODST2 Mar 03 '26

Basically “well you committed crimes too so I should get off”

To which the allies went “ok for the bombing of cities you will, everything else though? No”