[Map Kernow]

American soldiers in the Pacific during WW II kept the skulls of Japanese soldiers as souvenirs. Life magazine during the war published a full-page photo of an attractive blonde posing with the skull of a Japanese soldier she had been sent as a "souvenir"---the photo was presented merely as human interest, with no condemnation of the soldier's act. A Baltimore Sun article of 1943 publicized the fact that a GI's mother had asked her son fighting in the Pacific for the ear of a Japanese soldier so that she could nail it to her front door. US marines made a speciality of collecting Japanese soldiers' ears. American generals voiced concerns in their diaries about abuse of enemy remains by US troops.

There's no reason for you to single out Germans, if gathering war trophies from enemy corpses is worthy of condemnation.

US Navy lieutenant lets Japanese skull have a smoke

[ArrogantBustard]

Some folks are racist ... It's just that simple.

Some racists hate XXXXXXXX (insulting word fo people with dark skin)

Some racists hate XXXXXXXX (insulting word for descendants of Abraham)

Some racists hate XXXXXXXX (insulting word for people of Teutonic ancestry)

etc...

[metesky]

I have photos of my late uncle with Merrills Marauders in Burma standing with arms outstretched, holding a Jap head by the hair in each hand.

A killer in war, he came home, went to school on the G.I. Bill and lived a normal peaceful life until he died at 90.

Warm beer in the Burma jungle:

Dat's Mon Onc, middle row, second from left.