These V-1/V-2 did only a fraction of the damage as a result of the terror bombing campaign of which we have earlier established that it was started by the British. My heart is breaking in the sight of these kind of losses, boohoo. Fact remains that that killratio (innocent civilians)/(bomber pilots) is extremely high. With a few hundred of these Anglo mass murderer low lifes it was possible to kill hundreds of thousands of civilians, including (mainly) women and children
First, you missed the essential point of the aircrew loss figures:
It utterly demolished your claim of it being a 'safe' way for the Allies to wage war on Germany. Funny how you overlooked that part of it. No
mea culpas from you on getting that completely wrong, I guess?
Second, please remind me: Who was it again who worked in the factories of Germany building the tanks, artillery, fighters, bombers, rifles, machine guns, pistols, uniforms, bullets, bombs, shells, destroyers, U-boats, torpedoes, and other assorted implements of war? Who was it who worked in the fields growing the food to feed the German military? Who was it who worked in the mines who dug up the raw resorces needed for the factories building the implements of war? Who was it who ran the railways which transported the raw resources to the factories and the finished goods to the men fighting at the fronts? Who was it who worked in the oil refineries and electrical plants which provided the energy to power German military production and fuel the military's vehicles and vessels? Who was it who supplied the replacements for those military personnel who were killed or captured during battle?
Who could it be? Oh, yes, CIVILIANS.
The point you constantly avoid addressing: Without the vital input of the German civilian population, the war would have come to a quick halt. Armies cannot fight without equipment and provisions, especially large militaries with large arsenals.
No civilians, no economy; no econonmy, no military; no military, no war.
The German civilian population bears its share of responsibility for the war. You can pretend it doesn't all you like but it does just the same, notwithstanding your avoidance of reality. Because without the German civilian population the war could not have happened and without it the war could not have been sustained. They didn't quit doing all the many jobs that allowed the German military to keep functioning. They kept on supporting that war effort right up until the end.
It seems you're just jealous of the fact that the Allies were able to do to Germany what Germany wanted to do but failed to do to its enemies. But then, Germany was dumb enough to fight a war where the GDP of its rivals outnumbered it by some two to one. Pretty stupid, that. War between industrialized nation-states is, first and foremost, a war of attrition. Whichever side produces the most for the longest wins. One side electing to wage war when it's on the short end of a 2:1 production ratio has chosen to lose. Painfully.
Do tell me, if you're sitting in the chair of the Allies high command, how do you prosecute the war? What is your strategy? How do you intend to prevent German industry from building war material? Ask them nicely not to?
Not to mention the outright evaporation of tenths of thousands of Japanese civilians in a matter of seconds with no other intention then to terrorize.
It seems you're ignoring the most obvious reason:
Demonstrating once and for all the futility of Japan to continue fighting when it was clear to every other sane person the nation had lost the war. And yet, even after being hit by an atomic bomb, Japan
still didn't surrender. It took a
second atomic bomb to finally convince them to give up. Stubborn bunch of folks, it seems. Suicidally stubborn, in fact.
Or perhaps you would have preferred the non-atomic bomb approach of continuing the naval blockage of Japan and carrying on with the bombing campaign. That only would have resulted in the starvation of millions of Japanese citizens over a period of many months. I guess you somehow consider that more humane than ending the war quickly?
