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Ethical Dilemmas Of The Holocaust

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In the revolutionary war and civil we just lined up and fired at each other, and used old muskets and bayonets. WWI we were fighting from trenches, using horses and gassing each other. WWI we started to use planes and building tanks. Which then was a bigger thing by WWII with the M22 Locust, and lots of others. Also considering that that we were brought into the war with Pearl Harbor which was mostly airplanes that carried out the attack (except for the few submarines). Most of the tactics to get information, take over a country, kill soldiers, and killing citizens in the holocaust were extremely unethical. Mainly because we didn’t know any other way to do it. It was drop the A bomb or send hundreds of Americans to their death in a D-day. But

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