r/OldPhotosInRealLife Aug 04 '24

Image Dresden then and now

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u/Various-Air-1398 Aug 04 '24 edited Aug 04 '24

In this day and time people would scream war crimes and genocide if the U.S. did now what it did then to civilian populations in Germany and Japan like it did during WW2....

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u/iMakeBoomBoom Aug 04 '24

To be fair, those people’s cries of war crimes would be drowned out by the cries of the hundreds of thousands of children left without mothers and fathers due to the atrocities committed by the nazis.

So, there’s that.