Talk:Allied war crimes during World War II
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Further reading
[edit]- Books
- Dower, J.W. War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War, (London and Boston, 1986)
- Lily, J. Robert, (not yet published). TAKEN BY FORCE; Rape and American Soldiers in the European Theater of Operations, WW2, Palgrave Macmillan June 2007 ISBN 0-230-50647-X
- Ferguson, Niall. Prisoner Taking and Prisoner Killing in the Age of Total War: Towards a Political Economy of Military Defeat, War in History, Vol. 11, No. 2, 148-192 (2004)
- Veale F.J.P. Advance to Barbarism, Appleton Wisconsin: C.C. Nelson Publishing Co., 1953
- Articles
- Cobain, Ian. Revealed: UK wartime torture camp, The Guardian, November 12, 2005.
- Drayton, Richard. "An ethical blank cheque" British and U.S. mythology about the second world war ignores our own crimes and legitimises Anglo-American war making, The Guardian, May 10, 2005
- Várdy, Steven Béla and Tooly, T. Hunt: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe Available as MS Word for Windows file (3.4 MB) Section: by Richard Dominic Wiggers, The United States and the Refusal to Feed German Civilians after World War II pp. 274 - 288
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Rewriting of the 190.000 Rape Figure Quote
[edit]The figure of 190.000 at the end of the Western Allies, War Rape section of the article is heavily disputed and the method used to reach it has nigh to no basis in historical documents. The article from the Spiegel it uses as a source(link number 73) says exactly that in its fourth paragraph. Currently the only part indicating this in the article is the word "believes" in the quote from the second paragraph where they are just talking about the published work itself.
This whould be a simple edit I could do myself, but the article is semi-protected and my account does not meet the criteria for such an edit. It could be writen as a summary, not a quote, on the lines of:
"In 2015, the book "Als die Soldaten kamen" by the German historian Miriam Gebhardt was released sparking discussion on the topic of the image of the "greatest generation" though she also claims that 190.000 rapes were commited in germany by american solders until 1955. The book itself is critisized widely by other historians and journalists like Klaus-Dietmar Henke <"ref>https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/politische-buecher/sexuelle-gewalt-1945-rechenfehler-und-ungereimtheiten-13587370.html</ref> and the number is commented on by the Spiegel "Gebhardt is unable to present such evidence in sufficient quantity. Another estimate, stemming from US criminology professor Robert Lilly, who examined rape cases prosecuted by American military courts, arrived at a number of 11,000 serious sexual assaults committed by November, 1945 <"ref>https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/book-claims-us-soldiers-raped-190-000-german-women-post-wwii-a-1021298.html</ref>"
Though at this point it should either be moved to "Portrayal" in a new section titled "recent" or removed in it's entirety as it does not add anything to the core article and negatively spreads misinformation through a out of context quote.
Removal of Holocaust denial references
[edit]Why is this even in the article? Isn't this pretty disrepectful to victims of the Holocaust and in other war crimes? I'm struggling to understand it. 2607:FB91:148B:4AED:AC39:6AF7:4FFC:66F1 (talk) 23:20, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
What is this article based on?
[edit]Much of this article seems to be WP:OR and WP:SYNTH. There seem to be few references to primary and secondary sources in some official authority that have determined certain acts of war to be war crimes. ♆ CUSH ♆ 19:48, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
Dresden
[edit]Why is Dresden included? im pretty sure that multiple sources say that it was, indeed, an valid military target. 187.39.133.201 (talk) 21:49, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
- To be honest, id say we get an moderator or someone here and actually do something, i see a lot of information with unreliable or missing sources, this article really needs major rework, and i cant do everything alone. 187.39.133.201 (talk) 22:14, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
- I always thought Dresden was part of total war. 95.151.194.20 (talk) 20:17, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
- I just deleted Dresden from this article. 95.151.194.20 (talk) 17:29, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
The following is unsubstantiated: 'Looting, rape, and prisoner executions were committed by British soldiers at a similar scale compared to other armies throughout the war.' 82.41.94.112 (talk) 13:55, 3 May 2024 (UTC)