World Opinion of the Atomic Bombing if Used on Germany

Somehow they were more efficient in Germany than anywhere else?

The Gestapo was very effective at intimidating potential dissenters. Not so efficient at actually finding them; they basically missed the Schwarz Kapelle until the SK came out to attempt VALKYRIE. Actually the Gestapo was much smaller than the Cheka or other political police forces, in proportion to the population.

But there were other issues. The Nazi regime delivered on a lot of its promises, or seemed to. Hitler ended political disorder in Germany, stabilized the economy, restored Germany's national status, incorporated external German-speaking lands, won dazzling military victories. It's hard to knock success.

And even supposing one disapproved of some of its policies: who was a dissident to take sides with against the Reich? (Especially after the war started.) Imperialist Britain, which held half the world in subjection, yet dared to lecture Germany about the morality of conquest? America, created by extermination of the Indians, with its Jim Crow and lynchings? Stalin and the Soviet Union??? All these adversaries seemed bent on the total destruction of Germany. Strlking at the government in the midst of this struggle seemed a lot like dolchstoss.

A few heroic Germans got there (the SK, the White Rose). But it was not a simple choice.

But the bombing campaigns weren't targeting civilians, but military infrastructure. Civilian casualties were almost always incidental. The people targeting civilians for non military reasons were the Germans and Japanese, not the other belligerent countries.

Umm. Bomber Command openly admitted that their area bombing of cities was intended to "dehouse" German workers, and so cripple German war industry. This is not that different from German bombing strategy.
 
Rather more negative than with Japan since we're talking white people and not asians being nuked. Much less 'denazification' after the war, so a Germany whose political spectrum and level of nationalism are comparable to the UK/France as opposed to well OTL's Germany. A more conservative version of the EU TTL.
 
IMHO the atrocities of the Nazis, not just Jews and Roma who certain elements in Europe (and the USA) could care about but Czechs, Poles, etc and the destruction of whole towns, the wholesale shooting of hostages, etc were enough to make the fact that the Germans were white not yellow not something that would cause more angst about using atomic weapons.
 
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