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Originally Posted by VtwinVince
I think we need to convene a court of inquiry to establish whether or not this merits a war crimes tribunal.
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AFAIK, the recording was done in wartime, and Allied authorities did not decide to start a war crime trial. The issue of air attack on civilian targets was sensible enough to not start such a trial, with thousands of Allied airmen prisoners for both sides, and both sides attacking civilian targets since 1940. So the risk of reprisals war too high. Even if such attacks were forbidden according to international texts between both World Wars, but these texts were just forgotten during the war.