Originally posted by -lynx-
Jeepers - someone's ideas of comparing WW2 resistance to suicide bombers is just obscene:(. "They couldn't physically go to Germany to attack German civilians". Are you saying they would? You're sick minded people.
My point was literally, one mans resistance fighter is another mans murderer. It's all about context.
To the french, the marquis were heroes, to the Germans they were murderers to be exterminated.
ie. A palestinian gunmen is a hero to the palestinian people, but to the Isrealis he's a terrorist. You can replace all these examples with all sorts of groups..the Tamil tigers, IRA etc.
As to the thought that the various resistance groups would somehow have the moral fortitude NOT to target german civilians are kidding themselves. The allies were quite capable of bombing 25,000/50,000/etc etc - the russians raped and murdered their way into Berlin, what would disuade the resistance killing a few boche given the chance especailly given the price the French payed for their activities? The resistance was quite able and willing to settle scores with french collaborators after liberation.
And what else I postulated, that the local resistance cell just wouldn't have the capability to strike German cities (unlike palestinian bombers) is a perfectly reasonable thing.
Tronsky