(Part 2) Top products from r/CompanyOfHeroes
We found 2 product mentions on r/CompanyOfHeroes. We ranked the 22 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
From primary and secondary sources, lol. It's not a fallacy. We have diaries and documents from German soldiers on the eastern front.
Edit: Here, I'll link a good book on the subject.
February 1945. Over two days, almost 1300 bombers attacked the German city of Dresden, creating a firestorm and killing over 20,000 civilians.
July 1943, Operation Gomorrah. Again, over the course of several days, over a thousand bombers hit Hamburg. They create another firestorm, killing over 40,000 civilians. This one was so severe that the very roads were bursting into flames. Countless people suffocated in their shelters. That's 40,000 people in just a few days.
By 1945 Allied bombers were roaming Germany at will, blasting cities to the ground. This was entirely in accord with the the plans of "Bomber" Harris, who seemed to have almost a personal zeal for destroying Germany--not just the military, not just military targets, but Germany itself.
In Japan, the Americans did the same thing: they leveled cities all over the country. See http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Arnold-map-Japan-firebombing.jpg for a comparison to similarily-sized US cities, if it will help you get some sense of the scale of the devastation.
Would you not consider the area-bombing of civilians using highly sophisticated four-engine bombers to be 'industrial' slaughter? I certainly do.
With no civilians running around in COH2 you can feel very good about yourself as you battle the evil German foes, but in reality if a town presented opposition to the advancing American forces they would easily destroy it with artillery--German civilians didn't matter. American fighters were roaming the skies and strafing arbitrary targets. Not just military targets. They hit anything that moved. Many German civilians, women and children included, were destroyed by these pilots.
While it is true that the Western allies didn't have "death camps", the Soviets had plenty of creative ways to make use of undesirables. Millions died in prison camps, work camps, dangerous mining and factory work, penal battalions, or were simply executed.
If you think I'm trying to forgive Nazi war crimes, think again. But you seriously need to understand that war leaves everybody dirty. Check out Max Hasting's Armageddon if you want to have a very thorough and depressing read about what went down. He covers Western Allied combat operations including the area bombing of civilians and executions of POWs, the Soviet invasion of Eastern Germany and the mass-rapes and killing and complete subjugation of Eastern Europe. And of course, he also covers the genocide and mass killings by the Germans, with plenty of stories from soldiers and civilians alike to bring to life the horror of their experiences.
edit: Of course you yourself can ignore the moral problems that came with this morass that engulfed hundreds of millions of people around the world. Enjoy your video game.