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Originally Posted by Cowperson
When tens of millions are dead, it's not very grey. It's very much black and white.
The grey area is the how and the why of it, the new battleground for those seeking to shape history to their satisfaction or political position.
An article on "The Suicide Order of 1945" on Okinawa and the controversy over re-writing history to suit nationalists.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/20/wo...20iht-oki.html
Cowperson
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Even headcounts can become a grey area, although that wasn't my original point. There are simply so many variables involved that any analysis that doesn't consider that the reports are skewed in many different directions is faulty. That's not to say that there isn't a middle ground in which things are relatively certain, but when you start discussing blame and the like the word fact becomes pretty suspect.