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But what do you guys think would've happened if modern day media/news outlets were around during WWII? Leading up to, during and after?
Modern Day media in WWII?
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Really? We would've had a valid reason to go beat the shit out of Nazi Germany and Japan after we found out about shit like the Rape of Nanking, Auschwitz-Birkenau, shit like that...
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Except we didn't go beat the shit out of Japan for the Rape of Nanking (occurred in 1931 and was no secret), and despite having knowledge of the death camps, the Allies put forth no specific effort beyond what was already being devoted to the war against Nazi Germany.Xenophobe3691 wrote:Really? We would've had a valid reason to go beat the shit out of Nazi Germany and Japan after we found out about shit like the Rape of Nanking, Auschwitz-Birkenau, shit like that...
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Correction: the atrocities in Nanking occurred in 1937.
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Re: Modern Day media in WWII?
Quite Easy to predict what would happen. There would be calls to ImpeachTrytostaydead wrote:But what do you guys think would've happened if modern day media/news outlets were around during WWII? Leading up to, during and after?
FDR, for allowing Pearl Harbor to happen, as well as the Massacre of Shipping
off the East Coast by U-Boats.
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"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
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Oh man, and the media would be going apeshit over the Phillipines and Wake Island.
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Yes, but the question is what would happen if we had modern day media during these times? The general public wasn't aware of the Holocaust until after the war. In this situation, the general public would find out before or during the war. Then again, the parents of this generation grew up on killing Indians, so I wouldn't know that either...Patrick Degan wrote: Except we didn't go beat the shit out of Japan for the Rape of Nanking (occurred in 1931 and was no secret), and despite having knowledge of the death camps, the Allies put forth no specific effort beyond what was already being devoted to the war against Nazi Germany.
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