But I do think it is hard to say that a party in war is the good party. In war there are nog good parties, no winners and most of the time (as in WW2) no ethical parties.

As of genocide, yes probably one of the worst things that happened during WW2, and one of the worst things to ever happen.

But, Germans were not the only ones to commit genocide ever. Therefore I think it is not fair to call Nazi’s devils and forget about many other examples of genocide in history very easily.

Not saying it wasn’t terrible. Just saying is happened more and those other people are to be regarded as equal terrible as the Nazi’s just as their actions.

That’s all…

Two can play this game you know.

Oh, and didja know that a Nisei volunteer unit was just about the single most decorated US combat formation of the war?

The Allied “bomber barons” were stuck trying to prove correct the rather optimistic (or pessimistic, depending on how you look at it) interwar theories about strategic bombing; this led them down many a terribly unproductive rabbit hole, most notably a near obsession with razing the enemy cities. They tended not be very cooperative about suggestions concerning “changing tack” or putting their terribly expensive airfleets into other uses, such as ground support missions and whatnot.
So they wasted an awful lot of both bomber-crew (whose casualty rates rivaled those of combat infantry) an enemy civilian lives alike in largely pointless terror bombings that really didn’t achieve much beyond wrecking cities.
So?
Bombing raids on civilian targets were nothing new, they’d been pioneered already in the Great War; the strategy of trying to undermine your enemy’s position by targeting his civilian subjects is FAR older. The Axis merrily did it to the best of their ability too, they merely lacked the requisite airfleets (but went a fair ways to trying to come up with creative substitutes, such as now early cruise and ballistic missiles to make up for it).
Also by no period law a war crime.

As for nukes, meh. The only reason the Germans didn’t earn the dubious honor of having the things field-tested on them was simply that they collapsed before they were operational. As the Japanese were being delusionally obstinate in the peace-feeler negotiations (not to mention having their country de facto governed by a batshit insane military junta with a major death fetish and a most disturbing willingness to see the whole nation perish rather than surrender) they became the obvious practice target – didn’t hurt that the bombs also HAD their desired effect, namely that of convincing most halfway sane people in the regime of further resistance being a futile waste of lives.
Didja know there was nevertheless a rather half-assed but symptomatic coup attempt against Hirohito after he’d decided enough was enough and it was time to hoist the white flag?
If anything the nukes *saved* lives by bringing Japan to heel without further fighting; even the moat conservative of the Allied casualty projections (not to speak of collateral damage, doubly so given the quite serious though probaly not very realistic Japanese plans to mobilise the whole nation to fight to the last man, woman and child) for Operation Olympic – the amphibious invasion of the Home Isles – were pretty hair-raising. And IIRC there were rather serious suggestions to liberally employ poison gases to help overcome the Japanese defenses…

Chetniks are known as Nazi collaborators because there are German documents that speak of their mutual cooperation.

Also by all accounts the Chetniks were a load of murdering assholes so cry me a river, apologist.

Your comment is full of typical communist propaganda( the part with names is funny and very pathetic, cause his name would still be Zoran cause Germany lost the war, therefore your comment is full red idiotic).

- Japanese people who had lived for many generations in the US were interned (same for Germans in Englans).
- Racism whas abundent against them (and against Jews). (Henry Ford got a medal from Hitler who based his boos loosely and to some extent on Ford’s The international jew.)
- Firebombing was undertaken on Japanese and German cities. Much more effective than the German “total war”.
- These Targets where often selected to saw fear, not for their military importance.
- The atomic bomb, made to deter Germany from using it (they didn’t even make it). But used against a different nation that did not even have something that came close to that technology.

I do not say the allies committed genocide (because I think and assume they did not). But I do say that the too did many horrible things we nowadays rarely hear about.

In time of war ethics are often forgotten or used in the wrong way. Often it is a utilism with a different value for someone elses life than your own. This both parties are guilty of!

It is the price of propaganda, seeing your opponent as less of a human then yourself….

Anyway whole ex Yugoslavia knows about the heroic deeds and immeasurable sufferings of young and brave Partizans etc etc etc(insert more communist propaganda) cause victors write history(same reason why remnants of Kingdom’s army or widely known as Chetniks are known today as Nazi collaborationists and war criminals).