Firebombing inflicted mass civilian casualties and nearly wiped out cities .
空袭造成大量平民伤亡,几乎夷平了那些城市。
Germany , which had inflicted immense tragedies to itself and the world partly as a consequence of hyperinflation between the two wars , could not settle for anything less .
The newly independent georgia inflicted a vicious war on its minority nations , displacing thousands of people and sowing seeds of discontent that could only grow .