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Response to Seite (following from the request on my talk page):  you're attempting to apply a contemporary usage of a highly-charged and loaded term to a historical situation.

Please read about the history of the Second World War, paying close attention to the scale, scope, and intensity of the actions of both sides as it drew to a close.  Both sides used every weapon they had available in that colossal death-struggle.  Nothing about the actions of either side is comparable in any way to ""terrorism"" in the common sense in which that term is used today.  I would not even use the word to describe the Blitz, the bombings of Coventry, the destruction of Rotterdam, or even the ovens at Auschwitz. It's the wrong word.

Once standard reference works on the Second World War use the word ""terrorism"" to describe those attacks, then we may cite it and use it; until then it is an original coinage, original research, and a violation of Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy.  Thank you,  (talk) "