"Hmmm. I betcha Jesus never gets a job at the Pentagon with his wimpy, compassionate attitude."

I suggest you re-read Revelation.

Dave, no question the German war machine got progressively worse as the years went by (slaughtering thousands of helpless prisoners of war on top of all the things you've mentioned), but that wasn't the point. German just didn't start the air war against civilians, at least not intentionally.

Oddly enough and in a slightly related manner, Germany shouldn't be held responsible for the US development of the atomic bomb either. The Germans were convinced by their top physicists that a bomb wasn't possible; they were working on nuclear powerplants instead. Heisenberg never lived it down since no one believed him when he claimed he was merely trying to slow their effort down. It was too apparent he believe it was impossible right up to Hiroshima. Guess in a way it was a shame he wasn't on our side.