According to one who was present, Churchill suddenly blurted out: "Are we animals? Are we taking this too far?"
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by acknowledging that we do not "have clean hands ourselves," we would be in a far stronger position to condemn "the people who plunged the world into war and carried out gross crimes under its cover." As matters stand now, we are at the very least open to the charge of hypocrisy. ·

my German ex girlfriend's father when he was a child and a refugee pulled bodies out of the ruins of destroyed Dresden
he still won't talk about it even to his family
i believe WW2 was a battle of light against dark but we did not emerge pure
on certain occasions our moral integrity was a casualty of war

Among the Dead Cities