Actually civilians have always suffered the most. The diseases and famine that came
with the 30 years war which ended 1648 left more than 50% of the people dead in many
parts of Germany. The Great Nordic war (I do not know what it is really called in
English) which ended with the peace treaty of Uusikaupunki (Nystad in Swedish) in 1721
did the same around the Baltic sea etc. And of the soldiers more died of the diseases
than in battles... So the good old times were not so good. And Soviet Union lost
approx. 14 million soldiers and 7 million civilians (estimates do vary) in the WW II.
All the best!
Raimo
Personal photography homepage at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen
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Aihe: Re: Bombing Japan - private
>Ken,
>
>With the greatest of respect, civilians have been on the front lines since
>German bombers, supporting Franco, carpet bombed Madrid. After that, it
>was civilians in London and Manchester, in the Battle of Britain. Then it
>was civilians in Dresden, Nuremburg, Hamburg, Tokyo, Hiroshima and
>Nagasaki. And let's not forget the over 1 million Russian civilians that
>died in WWII - it is often forgotten that the Russians suffered by far the
>most civilian casualties in that war. And so it goes. Since WWII, massive
>civilian casualties have become a fact of war.
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