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Old August 1st, 2012 #3
Alex Linder
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Originally Posted by Donnie in Ohio View Post
This fall, when watching OSU play a home game, remember that attendance at The Horseshoe is typically 100,000+.

That many non-combatant people burned alive for no strategic reason whatsoever. It's difficult to truly comprehend.
The firebombings are pretty much the only act the British haven't formally apologized for. German superiority really sticks in their craw, and spurs their natural viciousness.

Hitler: allows 700k British fighting troops to 'escape' back to Britain from Dunkirk.

Britain: firebombs hundreds of thousands of German civilians to death for no strategic reason.

Hitler simply didn't understand what he was dealing with in Britain and America.