Solaris
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No I disagree.I read this about six times, but I couldn't figure out why you would mention this and fail to elaborate on it.
Like Aly said, there's no point in dying for something that changed nothing. Even if you try to run, even if you try to stop your comrades, the civilians are still going to die and you're going to die with them.
(Good first post by the way aly, enjoy your stay here)
"If I didn't do it, somebody else would have" has been the excuse of murderers and immoral people throughout the time. There is a lot of point in dying whilst fighting a genocidal regime.
I don't know if I'd have the guts to turn around and shoot my officer if ordered to kill civilians for no reason, but I sure as hell no it would be the right thing to do.
In terms of the people of Germany, of course there were exceptions, but by and large, Nazi-ism was a large movement that had the support of most of the country. The Nazi state had to be utterly annihilated, that's why I have no problem with the violence in films such as 'inglorious basterds'.
Have you ever been to the national holocaust museum in DC? Or visited Auschwitz or something like that? When I first went to the holocaust museum, I was repulsed and saddened but also realised just how awful the Nazi regime was. It made me angry they could do what they did and since then, I've had no problem with things like Dresden bombings or the brutality of 'Inglorious Basterds'.
Nazi-ism had to be absolutely destroyed, it was probably the most important war ever fought. The Nazi ideology infected the German people and so it was necessary to stamp it out with the utmost brutality, whilst being humane to our enemy once they were defeated.