Which war was the most civilized to fight in? I'd say the North African campaign in WWII. No real atrocities, Geneva Conventions strictly observed, the combatants generally liked and respected each other.
Lots of anecdotes about it. Eg at the southern edge of the theatre around the Qattara Depression the British and Germans came to an understanding to only fight during the day. Once the sun went down they could relax until morning. A British officer was captured and the Germans offered to return him for a truck full of cigarettes. The British built a dummy airfield as part of an elaborate deception plan and a German plane flew over and dropped a wooden bomb on it.
both sides treated prisoners well and latter they had a peace treaty and were friends
Julian Smith
>The British built a dummy airfield as part of an elaborate deception plan and a German plane flew over and dropped a wooden bomb on it. Any reading about this?
Isaac Jenkins
>The British built a dummy airfield as part of an elaborate deception plan and a German plane flew over and dropped a wooden bomb on it.
I need a sauce on that. If that is true my sides are in orbit
Hunter Green
Navy on Navy conflicts are usually pretty 'friendly'
Caleb Bell
they don't exactly get a chance to desecrate each other...
Jaxson Wright
They could just not pick up survivors
Landon Lewis
It's bullshit. There's a dozen variants of that story, mostly attributed to the British dropping said wooden bomb. It's just one of those made up myths.
Hudson Johnson
>and a German plane flew over and dropped a wooden bomb on it. The warfare equivalent of "no u"
Jaxon Hill
Yeah I could see it being lore. The relationship between Germans and Brits was very civil for the most part however.
>Which war was the most civilized to fight in? There has never been a war that was "civilized to fight in". See the writings of one of the few individuals to win not one, but two CMH's. Smedley Butler. Then google his pic sitting with Lejeune in a lawn chair.
Jaxon Diaz
tldr "war benefits a few at the expense of many".
Gabriel Young
>germans >observing geneva convention Tell that to the millions they slaughtered, asshole.
It's unfortunate that we're taught how brutal and savage the germans were, in school, and in media, when in fact they were fairly gentlemanly when fighting. Except with the Russians, but who would be?
>Protests at Diekmann's unilateral action followed, both from Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, General Gleiniger, German commander in Limoges, as well as the Vichy Government. Even SS-Standartenführer Stadler felt Diekmann had far exceeded his orders and began an investigation. However, Diekmann was killed in action shortly afterwards during the Battle of Normandy; many of the third company, which had conducted the massacre, were also killed in action. The investigation was then suspended. How convenient.
William Thomas
There is no such thing as "fair and gentleman" way to fight.
Adam Ross
This thread's about real things that happened during wars.
Landon Parker
SS =/= Wehrmacht
If you weren't such a brainlet you would know that.
For the most part the Germans behaved very correctly in France. Rapists were shot. When the Allies invaded in 1944 the French compared the American troops (especially the blacks) unfavourably with the Germans.
Angel Parker
That's literally Neo-Nazi propaganda. Now don't get me wrong, I've got my own dislike for the Jews, but you Nazis are nothing but a bunch of fucking liars and authoritarian dipshits.
Its not that simple some visroy was captured he saw how loyal the Nepalese were so he offered them a lot of money and they joined. They were mostly used to quill down rebellions in India. The British gave the Nepalese the most useless lands and they had a deal to have a viseroy in Nepal then ruler put the British in a palace he was not allowed to leave the area it was like the guy was on huse arrest it got real bad so the viceroy gave up and left
>when in fact they were fairly gentlemanly when fighting routine executions of POWs were common
Brandon James
But the Germans were fucking savage, sure they had their gentlemans war going on with the brits but when push came to shove they sent their own kids out as canoon fodder, shot prisnors, bombed civilian targets puerley as acts of terror and dont even dare try brush what they did in eastern europe under the rug. Murdring, raping and torturing millions of women, children, elderly and prisnors is never cool. No it wasn't just the SS either before you give me "muh clean wermacht" myth.
Dylan Allen
>caring about slavs >ever
Look, nazi's are shitbags, but commies were just as big shitbags, and deserved literally everything that happened to them and more
Jacob Reyes
>thread about what would suck the least >no specific time period except OPs opinion but open to any conflict >immediately dogpiled by seething butthurt fags screaming about "Muh Nazi atrocities" Jesus christ, I used to think the while discord thing was a myth but these past few weeks are really starting to make me believe it.
whatever or whenever it is I guarantee it was white Europeans vs other white Europeans. Even WW1 for fucks sake which was wholesale slaughter on a scale never before seen or imagined had some basic human decency between the soldiers. In wwii the nazis themselves looked after our PoWs better than any Jap ever did. It's the French and the Russians who muddy the waters with their unseemly behavior and funnily enough they both were power to the people socialist fuckbags.
Mason Rogers
This. Slavs are some of the rapiest, most barbaric people in history. They give the mongols a run for their money
Sebastian Sanchez
>a German plane flew over and dropped a wooden bomb on it. That's fucking top tier banter.
Brayden Price
>444th airbase
John Russell
My great grandfather was a spy. He was a pow in the African theatre. Only barely survived due to a German guard making sure he got some food. He finally was able to escape. Went back for the Europe theater. Went back for Korean war too.
Jose Lewis
Honestly the most civilised war would have been Gulf War 1. It was pretty quick and clean.
Samuel Long
You are probably right. But Im gonna have to choose to believe it is true.
