Ron schrieb:
"Orval Fairbairn" wrote in message
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Actually, it was even MORE fortunate for Germany that the war didn't
last longer -- there was the matter of "Little Boy" and "Fat Man," who
probably would have visited Berlin or Hamburg, instead of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki.

I doubt that. The Germans did not put up a stiff resistance like the
Japanese did. The Germans did not come up with suicide planes,

They did, but not in reasonable numbers.
Maybe for most occasions the purpose was not suicide but the result was
the same.
And far less effective. Bachem Natter and the Rammjaeger to be mentioned.

and never
fought to the last man, like they did in Iwo Jima.

Oh, they sometimes did, in some occasions due to sheer abducted
motovation, sometime due to sheer chancelessness of retreat.

Germany fought 'our' type
of war.

No.
The US paid their toll, but their way to fight compared to any other in
all theatres of operations was most of the time rahter a good massive
gangbang. They could effort it.


I was taught the sole reason for the A-bombs to hit Japan was the
believe that the US would have to fight every man woman and child in every
Japanese street, at unbelievable cost in human lives for the US armed
forces.

The toy was there, no question, it had to be played with.
It hit Japan, because their culture and their outer appearance was not
as far as close to the US than the far more related german.
Even the racism...
It was the 40ies then.