andy - I dont understand the rest of your post
you read history but perhaps do not learn from it
oradour sur glanes is a place in France flattened in reprisal for the death of German officer - wiki is useful here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oradour-sur-Glane_massacre
Lidice is a village now in the Csech republic flattened in reprisal for the death in Prague of Heydrich ( a very important German - Reichsprotector of Bohemia and Moravia I think )
and I think the village Saddam Hussein flattened was called Dujail after someone shot at him
(" after being convicted of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi Special Tribunal for the murder of 148 Iraqi Shi'ites in the town of Dujail in 1982,")
and the farm hall tapes were a listening programme by the Allies on captured German officers ( from 1944 - we didnt catch any before then ) and one said offhand about Oradour massacre " we got the wrong village and so ..... "
I am pleased to recall a bit of history to brighten up an other wise predictable thread.