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Re: The Atomic Bomb: A Different Perspective (Score: 1)
by Nagai on Sunday, August 07 @ 05:21:19 EDT
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and yet you don't think this is a racist act? atomic bombing or conventional bombing, it's interesting to read about crakkka military strategies against the yellowman while europe is spared such destruction. and yes, it is a racial issue because hitler's 3rd reich had the same suicidal discipline as the empire of the sun. hitler's 3rd reich was going to commit the same amount of resistance as the imperial japanese, and yet most of europe was spared the insane destruction of the nuclear bombs.
NO JUSTICE NO PEACE!
Actually it seems more nationalist than racist to me. It's not hard to see that racial differences were part of the equation, but your use of Hitler's Germany as an example doesn't compare. The "suicidal discipline" of the third reich you spoke of didn't come to bear until the very last days of the war - mostly by the fanatical children of the HitlerJugend SS division among others during the fall of Berlin. Hitler himself was against the idea of suicide as an instrument of war - he personally nixed the idea of manned rocket bomb technology to ape what the Japanese were resorting to in the Pacific theatre. After Hitler's suicide after Berlin fell, Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz became the leader of Germany, and with that power - instead of following orders and fighting to the last German and destroying the infrastructure of Germany to prevent capture by the allies - surrendered unconditionally to the allies.
If Germany hadn't surrendered, there had been plans to use the atomic bomb on them. However, it wasn't really necessary as Germany's leadership had already been shattered and resistance was unorganized and splintered. Even during the war, they had trouble keeping their military supplied and manned - they had an effective propaganda machine telling the world they were a modern, mechanized fighting machine. However, they still fielded cavalry brigades and relied on bicycle troops along with heavy use of captured enemy weapons and equipment to keep their fighting forces viable. Near the end, regular civilians cowered in bomb shelters, flak towers, and the ruins of their homes and left the fighting to what was left of the regular military troops and the hapless pre-pubescent and geriactric ranks of the Volkssturm.
Japan on the other hand had (and still has) a huge network of tunnels dug under the entire country, with underground airfields, factories and troop barracks waiting for that very same conventional invasion that was planned by the US. Operation Downfall seriously UNDERESTIMATED the strength of military assets that waited for them. The Japanese high command had also accurately anticipated every landing position that was planned by the US and what strength they would come in. This plan was called "Ketsu-Go." The whole country was geared to the defense of Japan - the least of which were villagers (men, women, children and the elderly) armed with swords, axes, bamboo spears, and explosives strapped to themselves to detonate among the invaders. The majority of Japan's best forces were in Japan, dug in and armed to the teeth, ready to achieve the national slogan at the time, "One Hundred Million Will Die for the Emperor and Nation."
THERE IS NO TRUE PEACE BUT THE PEACE OF THE GRAVE. |
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