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I don't think it can possibly be a bad thing to show how much suffering is caused by war. It's hard to argue that civilians ever "deserve" to be casualties of war - this is the same argument that justified crashing planes into the World Trade Center. Perhaps they support their government's actions, either actively or passively, but it's hard to believe that they could have exerted much influence over the juggernaut that was Hitler's army.
Although Mr. Friedrich says there was no military purpose for the bombings in the last months of the war, I wonder if the British had the same perspective at the time.
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"If ten million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
- Anatole France
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