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Originally Posted by josquin
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. I will not waste further time your's or mine--on this discussion, but merely assert my own opinion that you have not answered all the unanswered questions that these events raise.
Josquin
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Josquin, I hope you didn't take offense at me being flippant, I just found it funny you addressed me in the third person and went along with it
About Guernica, it's a hoax, and the truth of the matter has been settled since the 1970s, I don't suppose you understand Spanish so I cannot recommend references, and I cannot provide the answers you want. Best I can do is suggesting the Axis History Forum to find them.
And about Rotterdam, I gave you the version of events I know, Cajus Bekker was a well known and respected German historian, and his version of events seemed well researched and believable, but then again, maybe being German he was just being an apologist, and it has been a long time so that version may have been proven incorrect or false.
Regards.
PS: I don't think the thread was a waste of time. It was an interesting discussion but completely off topic.
Josquin, I did a quick search on the AHF, and found the following wich might be of interest.
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No one was charged with a crime and put on trial for the bombing of Warsaw in 1939 or the bombing of Rotterdam in 1940. Two German general officers were put on trial for the bombing of Belgrade, because the Yugoslav government had publicly declared it an "open city" before the bombing and the officers knew that. This bombing was prohibited by the 1907 Hague Convention (Hague IV), Article 25, and was consequently a war crime. That article reads:
"Art. 25. The attack or bombardment, by whatever means, of towns, villages, dwellings, or buildings which are undefended is prohibited." (emphasis added).
Note that the article does not prohibit the bombing of defended cities.
Warsaw was defended at the time it was bombed in 1939. Rotterdam's garrison had surrendered, but only shortly before the bombing. The news of the surrender had not reached the Luftwaffe commanders, and as a result, they did not call off the air strike. Generally, mistakes made in good faith are not considered war crimes.
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And for all that is worth, former chief of the Legion Condor Hugo Sperrle, was acquited in Nuremberg trials.