Your interrogative sentence lacks its required ending punctuation of a question mark.
Good points, Slart, you’re right.
There are SO many events related to World War II that were absolutely not the “accidents”, “surprises”, “coincidences”, “unfortunately unavoidable”, “merely sad truths of war” that they’re made out to be, including but not limited to
Hitler’s rise to power
Germany’s exploits of military build-up after World War I in violation of the Treaty of Versailles
The 1938 Munich Agreement and then-British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlin’s ‘Peace For Our Time’ gamble
Germany’s successes in the early weeks and months of The Blitzkrieg
Germany’s assault on English civilians, leading to the Battle of Britain in defense
Pig-headed American brass assuming that poorly trained, poorly equipped and poorly led troops would have prevailed at the Kasserine Pass
Germany’s successes in U-Boat warfare
The failure of France’s so-called Maginot Line
The Nazis maniacal hatred of Jewish people, leading to The Holocaust
The Pearl Harbor “sneak” attack
Japan’s capture and occupation of Guam, Wake Island, Java, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Singapore, The Philippines, etc.
The resistance to ethnic integration in the US military
Battles that didn’t even need to be fought due to no strategic nor tactical gain, such as Allied invasions of The Palau Island Group
Atrocities committed by all nations involved
Japan’s “Comfort Women”
All other countries “comfort women” that merely had other euphemisms or no named program at all
The Allied firebombing of Japan, especially the deliberate targeting of largely civilian areas
The Allied carpet-bombing of German cities such as Dresden
Japan’s razing of and slaughter of thousands of Filipino civilians when the Allies retook The Philippines
And so on.
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