WW2 p-51 ace Richard Peterson describes watching a German 109 shoot up american parachutes and does the same to him

And? So the fuck what? At "the end of the day," counting the sheer magnitude of civilian and military deaths in the East alone, not to mention "undesirables" exterminated by the Wehrmacht (tacitly and implicitly), SS, Waffen-SS, Einsatzgruppen and various state apparatus organizations of the NSDAP, killed more civilians than Allied bomber crews.

Do you mean to communicate that if the Third Reich did not have long-range bombing and industrial capabilities that could've matched American output that they would not have used those capabilities to mass-murder British civilians in scorched earth bombing runs? Of course they fucking would have--that's why they launched literally tens of thousands of V-1s and V-2s indiscriminately at civilian areas.

None of this fucking matters. The fact of the matter is that this Luftwaffe pilot breached certain standards of normative and accepted behavior amongst pilots in aerial combat. He got the just punishment for it and so did every single other swinging dick that was complicit in Nazism, its higher leadership and anyone who served to promote its ideology that justified behavior like shooting unarmed bomber crews.

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