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Mistakes and Excesses
The war was marked by at least two regrettable excesses of American government policy, however. The first was the tragic internment and displacement of thousands of Japanese-Americans because of the anti-Japanese hysteria that followed the Pearl Harbor attack. The second was the American and British policy of bombing the civilian centers of their enemies, despite the proved failure of the Germans to defeat the British by using the very same means. To put this bombing into perspective, a greater number of Germans were killed in one day in the bombing of the city of Dresden which had no military importance and had been filled with civilians than the number of British civilians killed by German bombing for the entire war. When the Americans fire-bombed Tokyo in 1945, they killed three times as many people as in Dresden in a matter of hours. Next Section: The Longest War Land, History and Language: Chapter Home
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