Was the allied bombing of German cities justifed

The question is meaningless unless you specify the objective or standard with respct to which the judgement is to be made.

If, for example your standard is "revenge against the German people for allowing a murderous regime to upset the relative peace of Europe at the time" then you get one set of answers.

If however your standard is "protecting Europe from the coming scourge of Soviet state socialiam" then you might get another, perhaps mixed, set of answers.

If, instead your standard is some rather sappy version of what passes for contemporary political correctitude, then, of course there is no answer at all because the whole damn thing was illegal in that the then nonexistant UN had not authorized it.(Then you could round up Winston Churchill along with Tony Blair.)

have another glass of eggnog George.

There's a thread of what I remember as great length on this topic here on a2k already. I'll see if I can search it out. If I can't, maybe someone else here will remember it.

Ah, that was easy to find - here is the link:

http://able2know.org/topic/1239-1

Much too filling. Besides, I rather like the Jordan Cabernet I'm drinking.

I'll have a glass of that, thank you.

Thanx for finding that, Osso. Minute I saw the thread I thought, "Hold on a sec. I know we've been here before." But I'm too damned lazy to go looking for old threads.

You're welcome. In this case it was easy as a plug in at the google custom search window. Such luck does not always happen.

Good work Osso. I was too lazy to look for it.But I remember it was an interesting thread

Do tell. Can't be the bully of the vineyard

But it would have passed. You see, Germany invaded the now nonexistant Soviet Union, which would ultimately have a permanent seat on the not yet created UN Security Council, and . . . .

Hmmm. I'll have what he's drinking.

cheers Rog-O and a Merry Christmas to all of you...

Thanks, panz. You have a nice Christmas, too.

And to you too, Panz, and GeorgeOB, and certainly Roger..
it must be the booze: maybe even Oralloy, if he would just shut up.

So what am I? Chopped liver?

Oh, no, I knew I was forgetting..

what can I do to reclaim your acceptance?

No, I am not going to send you chopped liver.

How about some nice chiles?

Cutting this talk off and saying I wish the best to you and seaglass, be well and happy.

That question also depends on which German cities you are talking about.
If you are talking about Dresden, then no,the bombing was not justified.
There was no military reason for it at all.

If you mean Berlin or any of the cities in the Ruhr Valley, then yes there was military justification for it.
Many of those cities were part of the German industrial complex, and as such destroying them was a military objective.
Berlin, as capitol of Germany, was an important city, and destroying it was a valid military target.