Posted on 03/04/2007 2:53:43 AM PST by LibWhacker
beyond belief. the same supremicist mentality as the out of control islamofascists
This account of the atrocities committed turns my stomach.
I must be the most naive person in the world to have thought that Aushwitz was the worst inhumanity committed.
What the Nazi's did to their fellow man is unthinkable and now this.......
If we were fighting that war today, we would have re-deployed to the United States after taking six thousand casualties on Iwo Jima. And the left would be screaming for a Dept. of Peace to hold a conference with Japan and Nazi Germany.
I simply couldn't read it all. It was too horrifying.
My God.
My dad served in the Philippines. His division - the 760th Field Artillery - was in battle for 99 straight days against the Japanese. He never said much, but the little he told us of what he had seen - what Japanese soldiers did to people - was horrible.
People who object to the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagosaki should read this article.
"People who object to the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagosaki should read this article. "
The atrocities of the Japanese were well known in US intelligence circles and there is no doubt that it affected the scale of violence that the US thought appropriate.
In many histories I have read, the mentality by the end of the war was that "we fought Germans, but we kill Japanese."
Before I get set upon by the FR hordes, let me say that I don't think that was unreasonable given the steady ramp-up of brutality throughout the war, and that ramp-up was initiated by the Axis. They sowed the wind and reaped the whirlwind.
It was. The Germans slaughtered far more than the Japanese did. Mengele also performed the same kind of experiments carried out by Unit 731. There is no question Unit 731 existed and did carry out some rather brutal experiments. The problem with some of the accounts is that they are one-sidedly Chinese. The Chinese, like the Japanese, are not known for being dispassionately factual in their accounts of the war. (For example, China asserts that it, and not the United States, defeated Japan during WWII). The estimate of 400,000 dead from chemical and biological bombings is yet another airy Chinese estimate that can't easily be verified. What we know about the number of people killed by the Germans is well-documented. The body count amassed by the Japanese in China is a little more dubious - the numbers have been put together by a regime that insists that American forces used chemical weapons during the Korean War. Even if you take their numbers at face value, they don't approach the scale of German war atrocities.
Far as I'm concerned they could have dropped a third and fourth one if that's what it took to get to surrender.
It was fairly well-known, as the war progressed, that Allied POW's were brutally mistreated by the Japanese. Japanese troops were also well-known for fake surrenders, where they would pretend to surrender, and then try to bushwhack the GI's who went to accept the surrender. As far as I'm concerned, the Japanese got less than they deserved (in terms of war casualties). At the same time, there's no comparison between the genocidal policies of the Nazis*, and the classic imperialistic bent of the Japanese.
* Where if being of the wrong ethnicity was fatal to you and your family, in spite of dedicated government or military service.
yep, I agree.
MacArthur whitewashed most of this in the interests of reconciliation.
Next time you hear bawling about US dropping the A-bomb, remember this.
They were programmed to be fanatics and savages.
The Knights of Bushido: A Short History of Japanese War Crimes by Lord Of Liverpool Russell (Author)
It's in publication again. I warn you, however, it makes this story seem mild by comparison.
Japan did terrible things.
China and Korea took the brunt of it.
There were several scientific discoveries because of things such as this: many human tolerances (such as how long humans could survive in what temperatures, etc.) were discovered by the Japanese experimenting on what were often civilian subjects. Such deliberate gathering of information is not worth the life of people.
The Japanese need to have accounts such as those in the article rubbed in their faces, the same way it was done and continues to be done to Germans, to prevent such atrocities cropping up again.
It is also something for every country to note so that their country might not go down that road.
Anytime someone bring up this drivel, my immediate reponse is, "Too bad we didn't have 10 more A-Bombs so we could have bombed those inhuman murderers and torturers into the stone ages."
If you hadn't lived under Japanese occupation, you wouldn't understand why I say this.
Man's penchant for cruelty to his fellow man is not something reserved to one ethnicity or era.
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