if were going to have a discussion about reenacting the SS then people who arent reenacters scram. Go make a thread in the main historical forum.
I can see why you'd want to re-enact the Waffen-SS; Bigotry and segregation seem right up your alley.
...was actually employed by the US to sanction the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagaski even though the Japenese were about to give up but the message was "never received".
Japan had no intention of surrendering and was preparing to repel the invasion of Honshu and Kyushu right up until the end of the war. They had repeatedly refused Allied demands to surrender and had made it quite clear that they would never surrender while they could still fight.
Operation Downfall (the planned invasion of the mainland) was estimated by the Allied command to cause half a million American deaths and between five and ten million Japanese deaths. The entire populace would be hostile to the invaders and they had been strongly encouraged to fight (they even raised a corps of armed civilians that wound up numbering over 28 million. Like the Volkssturm, they'd have died in enormous numbers), not to mention the sizeable armies still in Japan. It would have been an absolute blood bath. The 200,000 or so deaths caused by the atomic bombings seem scant in comparison.
The Atomic bombings may have been among the worst things Man has ever had to do, but they saved millions of lives. To claim that they were equivalent to Nazi war-crimes is ridiculous.
Basically every wartime army in history has committed crimes against humanity. The difference is that the Waffen-SS was an armed political group who were officially tasked with committing war-crimes (among other things. I do realise they were soldiers that fought proper). I don't know of any other such group that is widely re-enacted. Napoleon's army may have committed war-crimes, but does anyone re-enact a unit that killed as many civilians and POWs with official sanction as the Waffen-SS?
Hypotheical millions that do not exist, at the time the war was already won. American and allied forces had pretty much freed china as well as the russians entering the conflict ... it was at an end for the Japenese and they sure as hell knew it. With Americans already on the close and the bomb finished there was still no live test as yet, thus the bombings commenced which ended the war but ONLY because it was already ended, the Japenese could NOT counter attack at all they had no fleet, they had no air force, their man power was dwindling quickly on the isolated islands.
So these hypothetical "Millions" is absolute crap and you know that for a fact, there was going to be no counter attack at all there was no-where viable to attempt to. The Bomb drop was a live test and nothing more to see the devastation it would cause AND evalutate the long term effects of such on a populace, the war was just a "Reason" behind it when clearly there was no war at that point.
Japan was a floating siege works, there was no-way in or out by sea thanks to intensive mine laying, its like if the Germans had dropped an atomic bomb upon Leningrad during the siege ... its not just at all, its just a means for a test and a way to stop attempting of a landing upon japan and cause further losses to the forces.
It was far from Saving Millions at all ...
Warcrimes are only put to people who have lost a war, have you ever noticed that?
