Enzo wrote:..., to me it was the last "gentlemans war".
It looks different from here. Sure, on the Western front, or rather, where Americans were involved, some decorum remained, and there was certainly gentlemanlike behaviour on the part of the Americans towards their German POWs (
so unlike today).
Maybe I misunderstood you and you meant it was the last war
America fought genlemanlike?
From the european perspective, it all looks very different - looking at the horrible fate of The Soviet POWs, the extermination of the Polish intelligentsija, the indiscriminate killing of civilians, especially in Poland, the Baltic states, the USSR and Balkans; summary executions of entire villages (Italy, France, Greece, Eastern front), sometimes burning everyone alive after locking them up in the local church; and the terrible revenge by the Red Army during their advance. Coventry, Dresden... gentlemanlike?
And these are only the acts of war in the "traditional" sense. I didn't even begin to mention the Shoa, because that was not an act of war, but pure and unadultered evil barbarism. Include that, and any notion of civility is gone. "Untermenschen", anyone...?