HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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Question
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had all German soldiers burned alive
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was the burning of supplies to hinder the enemy
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the use of chemical weapons
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the burning of the Nazi flags
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Detailed explanation-1: -Explanation : (A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy that aims to destroy anything that might be useful to the enemy. Any assets that could be used by the enemy may be targeted, which usually includes obvious weapons, transport vehicles, communication sites, and industrial resources.)
Detailed explanation-2: -A military strategy of burning or destroying crops or other resources that might be of use to an invading enemy force; the term is first used in English in 1937 in a report of the Sino-Japanese conflict, and is apparently a translation of Chinese jiāotŭ (zhèngcè) ‘scorched earth (policy)’.
Detailed explanation-3: -The desperate Russians, however, adopted a “scorched-earth” policy: whenever they retreated, they burned the places they left behind. Napoleon’s army had trouble finding supplies, and it grew progressively weaker the farther it marched.