Wich was the worst nation in the war?

[wmaxt]

It's hard to say who was the worst - The Japenese were excedingly cruel both to combattants and to civilians. It is reported that 250,00 Chinese were excuted for knowledge of/help to the Dolittle raid and that was the tip of it.
The Germans tried to wipe out an entire ethnic group and tried to wipe out the commies.

Russia would send political prisioners in large groups (it's said this total could millions) without wepons ahead of their armies into combat to wast the Germans amo. The totals of people sacrificed/worked to death is said to be over 20 million.

What's the definition of bad?

[GermansRGeniuses]

Actually, that 20 million includes deaths in combat. Of soldiers, that is number of Russians who died, in any war-related way...

[the lancaster kicks ass]

Originally Posted by wmaxt

It's hard to say who was the worst - The Japenese were excedingly cruel both to combattants and to civilians. It is reported that 250,00 Chinese were excuted for knowledge of/help to the Dolittle raid and that was the tip of it.
The Germans tried to wipe out an entire ethnic group and tried to wipe out the commies.

Russia would send political prisioners in large groups (it's said this total could millions) without wepons ahead of their armies into combat to wast the Germans amo. The totals of people sacrificed/worked to death is said to be over 20 million.

What's the definition of bad?

that's a very good point very well made, well done that man =D>

[Darkstalker]

Almost any nation in that war committed crimes or actions that are considered not admitables.
Like the British bombing schedules. They started indiscriminated bombings over the civilian population over Germany and the occupied territories at the beginning of the war because it was difficult for the pilots to cause heavy damage on the military facilities.
In that time, the luftwaffe forbidded full scale bombings including civilian population like the allies were used to.
Also we had to remember that this politics were used only for the western european countries like france or U.K. In the east this was not forbidden.

[Darkstalker]

In the American continent were cases where the populations of the axis countries that were living in "neutral" or allied countries were confined in concetration camps,and were bothered or attacked in public places.
In other places the governments expropiated axis' properties that were in those countries when the war broke, like ships, buildings or money. And deported or sended to jail the owners of the properties.

[Darkstalker]

In some times this expropiated properties were used against the axis, like the planes or were used to support allied countries when selling, dismanteling or organizing ship convoys to cross the atlantic that were sunk by german u-boats.

[plan_D]

RAF bombing of German cities didn't start until late 1940, after the BoB, after the Blitz. Every country in World War 2 commited a war crime, Poland were one of the first by slaughtering thousands of ethnic Germans in Poland.

[cheddar cheese]

Wow going by this poll, the Romanians and the Greek were as good as the Uk during the war...

[Kongo Otto]

Originally Posted by plan_D

It wasn't only France that had the chance, it was the whole Alliance. The BEF, France, Belgium, Denmark and Holland could have all attacked Germany while Germany was in Poland.

Holland was a neutral state,teh same way like switzerland.

[plan_D]

I haven't heard this before. What happened was that the Dutch government ordered its army to stand down, to avoid loss of life. Although some refused and still fought, doesn't make them a neutral state.

[Archangel]

i think one of the worst things done in ww2 was the flare bombing on berlin. i dont know what year it was, but the allied bombers who attacked berlin that night didnt throw bombs, but flares (or how they are called. it were sticks you could set on fire, so you could c where you were dropping the bombs)
the whoule city was on fire, and very much people died an very painfull death.

and no plan_D, you dont need to reply on any misspellings here >.<

[evangilder]

Archangel, are you thinking of the Dresden firebombings, perhaps?

[Archangel]

yes,... but as far as i know its also done on berlin.. maybe not that big as in drehsten,.. but as far as i know, that action was iven a name, called "Berlinieren"

but thats what ive heard

[evangilder]

I am not familiar with any Berlin firebombing raids, but there may have been some. Dresden was a horrible mess. Unfortunately, it is a part of war. Hopefully, that kind of thing won't have to happen again.

The Tokyo firebombing raids killed more than the nukes on Hiroshima. Robert Morgan's biography talks about them. He flew the Memphis Belle, and after he came back for the war bonds drive, he flew B-29s in the Pacific. He said that as they flew over Tokyo, they could smell the burning bodies. I shudder to think of the horror of the firestorm.

[Archangel]

yes.. but the worst thing is that the people couldnt stay at home, cuz theyr homme was burning, but the also couldnt get out because the asphalt on the street melted cuz of the heat.
that are raids who may not happen again.