There was some very unrestricted warfare going on against civilians by the country he was fighting. Maybe Churchill was the first “on our side”.
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This is factually incorrect. The luftwaffe accidentally dropped one bomb off course that hit civilians in London and Churchill responded with two weeks of bombing civilians in Berlin before Hitler eventually responded in-kind. This is not disputed in mainstream history, but it’s glossed over.
Furthermore, Hitler and Stalin didn’t ever even build the capacity to win the war by unrestricted aerial bombings of civilian targets. That was only the UK/US.
History is written by the victors, as Churchill himself said.
The Germans were real careful not to hit civilians in the USSR, were they?
Their aerial capabilities were focused on the battle lines, not bombing civilians. Not saying this was necessarily a moral choice, it may have just been strategic but it’s remarkable in hindsight, given that aerial supremacy won the war, that Hitler and Stalin didn’t endeavor to achieve it the way the Brits and Americans did. Failure of imagination? Maybe. Moral rectitude? Probably not. But it’s what happened.