[Unknown Target]

I think anyone who doesn't take UTMOST care not to harm any civilians in a war is an idiot.

An idiot would be someone who sacrificed their country and people in an all-out war for the sake of saving a few enemy villages. Especially when that enemy was a lunatic dictator fixated on exterminating all non-Aryan races.

Hitler? Saved a few enemy villages? What you say?

[aldo_14]

I think anyone who doesn't take UTMOST care not to harm any civilians in a war is an idiot.

An idiot would be someone who sacrificed their country and people in an all-out war for the sake of saving a few enemy villages. Especially when that enemy was a lunatic dictator fixated on exterminating all non-Aryan races.

Hitler? Saved a few enemy villages? What you say?

What the hell are you on about, pray tell?

[karajorma]

I prefer to think that if people had been being gassed en masse, they'd've simply thrown everything they had at the Germans in a completely indescriminate manner. And if that failed to stop them, then they'd've surrendered.

I don't doubt that there would have been a few retaliatory strikes from the British at first but at that stage I doubt they would have been enough. Britain probably would have surrendered or at least arranged for a cease in hostilities. After all Britain only entered the war cause its allies were threatened. There were probably people who still believed that the UK could end the war as a draw rather than fighting and losing.

[an0n]

Now that I think about it, the most likely sequence of events woulda been: London gets trashed, Britain attacks with everything they've got, Britain uses their apparent advantage to bargain for a cease-fire, Hitler accepts knowing that the advantage is costing heavily because he'd rather focus on invading Russia anyway.

Then MI6 woulda went to work aiding the French Resistance and trying to force the US to commit behind Britain incase Germany attacked again.

[Ford Prefect]

My US history teacher always said that historians never ask "what if?"

[TrashMan]

And that's why you're not a world leader.

The only goal in any war should be to win at any cost, short of the downfall of your own civilization.

I'm sure Hitler and Stalin and Mao Tze Tung thought the same way you did....God forbid you ever aquire any position of power.

"When fighting monsters, be carefull not to become one yourself."

[IceFire]

My US history teacher always said that historians never ask "what if?"

History being my minor...what if is an important component of looking at history...but your history teacher is right in that the distinction is that you don't go very far with the what if.  You historically examine an event and you can generate a number of what-ifs that could be spawned from that event and then you find out why they didn't happen.  This was always my approach to history anyways.

What we're doing now is not that approach really...but it can be fun in a purely non-academic way.

[an0n]

I'm sure Hitler and Stalin and Mao Tze Tung thought the same way you did....God forbid you ever aquire any position of power.

"When fighting monsters, be carefull not to become one yourself."

You're assuming I'm not happy being a monster.....

And I think the fact that Hitler never used chemical weapons amply demonstrates that he never thought the same as me.