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Dibble-
https://aoav.org.uk/2020/the-effects-of-strategic-bombing-in-wwii-on-german-morale/
Plus this. "More than 20,000 German troops were executed by courts-martial during the war for varieties of defeatism." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/08/hitler-germany-campaign-collapsed
nick_h.
You can't really compare. Total civilian deaths for the UK were 67,000, of which half were in the Blitz. Total civilian deaths for Germany were between 1.5 and 3 million.
They do, especially if you pretend they didn't happen. War crimes are tried in court, where legal precedents usually determine the outcome.
Personally I think Russia's invasion is a crime, whether they kill anyone or not. i'd say that every war of aggression is criminal. But the law doesn't work that way, because if you class the invader as a criminal just for stepping over the border, you don't give him an incentive to feed POWs or not use chemical weapons.