The JUSTIFIED Execution Of The Japanese Headsman Of Wake Island
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- Опубліковано 28 кві 2023
- Throughout the Second World War there were many horrific executions that took place. The Japanese Army were responsible for it's believed the deaths of 14 million civilians and people following their brutal acts of war. But on Wake Island, the Japanese would oust the Americans who had established a base there, and one man who became the garrison commander of the Island was Shigematsu Sakaibara. He was a man though who would be guilty of a number of war crimes.
Sakaibara whilst on Wake Island ordered many American civilians to conduct forced labour building ditches to protect the island from air attacks. But he then after a bombardment ordered the execution by sword of a man who was an American Civilian. Following this he then ordered his Japanese soldiers to execute another 96 people, before he himself with his own sword executed a final American who had escaped. He was then for his crimes at the end of the Second World War, sentenced to death and was executed by the Americans.
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Like all such cowards, he had no problem executing others, but when his turn came it was a very different matter.
The worst part is, He never writes, he never calls...
@endikaeche4359 Unless we stand with one's Avatar, be it Christ, or Buddha...
You see that same reaction on Death Row! Heinous murderers react usually one of three ways, i.e., they repent, find God and become meek, they cry like babies as they are led to their execution, or, they are go to execution still defiant and swearing! (May that last group enjoy hell!)
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When he gave the order to execute the civilian workers, one of his subordinates committed suicide in protest. That junior officer also left a journal in which he explained his action. It was this, plus the discovery of a coral rock on which had been inscribed "98 US PW 5-10-43" , near where the bodies of the civilians had been buried in a mass grave, that led to the revelation of the war crime. That rock is a preserved landmark on Wake Island. He should have been beheaded with his own sword but hanging was a less " honourable " end for a Japanese officer, I suppose.
This is why the US Marines showed them no quarter in the Pacific Theatre.
@@ralphalvarez5465 True of the Navy too, ours and theirs. But the Japanese thought surrender was cowardly, as did the Marines. That changed a little bit towards the end of the war.
@@ralphalvarez5465 not just the Marines but pretty much all US and Australian forces weren't know for taking Japanese prisoners. Not because we thought it not honourable to surrender but because we knew the Japanese even if wounded would still try to kill you, so much easier just to shoot them and not worry about taking prisoners. That and we had seen and heard what they had done to our guys who they had captured so a bit of revenge came into it too.
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So many got away with it
It's absolutely hilarious that the Japanese want us to apologize for the atomic bombs...
It's absolutely hilarious that the Democrats want us to apologize for the atomic bombs..
Both were dropped on civilian areas, without warning, which was illegal under the Geneva Convention.
@@davidpowell6098 Truman told em a week before surrender or be destroyed. You must have had a Democrat/Communist teacher, goofy
@@davidpowell6098 nobody went to jail, stupid
And the Japs followed the Geneva convention to the letter !
It’s a shame that so many others got away with their crimes.
They always do. The US got away with all its crimes in the Middle East and Afghanistan. But the Afghans did teach the American hubris a valuable lesson, complete with PTSD and mentally "ill" American soldiers!
especially the Democrats
Hard to execute 98% of all Japanese soldiers and marines. They were all in on it.
Don't worry...God's really good at keeping track....they'll get theirs...
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Grow up DH
When some are given absolute power, it can reveal their true character.
Best comment here.(and very true).
Can and does. The more power, the surer the test.
Very true and very sad. It is terrible and inhuman what treatment the Japanese melted out to the people who they captured but on the whole they were incredibly brave and loyal to there Regimental family they were unquestionably excellent troops and they taught the world how to fight in extremely difficult terrain the jungle. The British army learned how to fight in the jungle and win from them. Sadly the French and US army didn't and lost in Vietnam. To the Victor's the Crown and to the losers the war crimes trial
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My wife's uncle Charles Schemel was one of those executed on the North Beach. His family never knew what happened to him and was only reported 'missing in action'. Several years ago an HBO special "Wake Island the Alamo of the Pacific" was aired and we were watching it. A black stone memorial over a mass grave of 100 men on that beach was spotted in this documentary and I slowed it down so I could read the names and her uncle's name was easily viewed. So then we knew what happened to him. Later I contacted the chaplain that was with the original group of prisoners who lived just outside of Spokane Washington. We sat down with him and he knew Charles and told us about how 900 were taken to Japan as slave laborers while 100 were left on the Island. He survived the bomb on Nagasaki and found out later what had happened to the those left on that little island. He and others returned to Wake Island later on and removed the remains of those killed on the beach and brought them back to Hawaii for a proper burial at the National Military Park in the Punchbowl. 10 years previously we visited the Punchbowl not knowing her uncle was resting at peace not far away.
WOW!
What was his name? I will go visit him.
@@hellkell8693 Charles Schemel a civilian worker for Morris-Knudsen CO. from Uniontown Washington building airstrips in the Pacific. Take a picture if you can and let me know. Thanks
@@johnwebb4191 Claude Lorraine Campbell was a civilian employed by Morris-Knudsen on Wake Island and my great-uncle. He died as a slave laborer in Japan and is buried in Hawaii.
@@dougcampbell8317 What a tragic point in history, your great-uncle and my wife's uncle were executed together on that Wake Island beach and buried together supposedly in the mass grave at the Punch Bowl National Cemetery.
I hope his family still feels the shame that someone like this brings to their name.
Like Rumsfeld's or Bush's or Clinton's families should?
Unforgently this animal's descendants and the Japanese people to this day show him respect and see him as a war hero. Never forget.
He's enshrined
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The japs have a secret shrine to them.
The Japanese were probably more hated than the Germans in some parts of the world. They were sadistic and brutal. They seemed to be more fanatical and inhumane if you can believe it. I can understand why they dropped the bombs on Japan, they never would have surrendered otherwise.
3 1/2 million Allied casualties expected, more for the Japs themselves in a conventional invasion. The Standing Order in P.O.W. camps was for every POW to be murdered the instant Japan was invaded by the Allies. Thank God for the Bombs.
Without a doubt, the Japanese and Germans of the 30s and 40s were inhumane. It was they who were the real Untermensch, not the Jews. Have we learned anything from all that suffering? Take a look at the present-day Russians for the answer.
Get informed before you speak. The US dropped those bombs for a different reason. Even Wikipedia could be enlightening for you.
Growing up in Australia in the seventies there was much hate for how the Japanese had treated Australian prisoners during WW2 and the fact that only a few Japanese soilders were tried and executed.🇦🇺🇺🇸🇬🇧
LeMay's çontinued fire bombing would've been order of day to punish🇯🇵.Truman had pity on them & ordered cessation of those missions & dropping of the atomic devices.
Neither Hiroshima or Nagasaki had death toll of Tokyo.
LeMay didn't want the atomics deployed
He thought his trial was unfair? TOO FUNNY--I mean, if it wasn't so sad! What did he think of the fairness of the "trials" his prisoners received.
So, he thought U.S. had no moral standing to try him because of Hiroshima & Nagasaki, did he? Using their own code of "justice", the entire Japanese nation should have been executed--can you say "rape of Nanking", "Comfort Women", "Unit 731", " massacre of Indian POWs", "live vivisection of U.S. airmen POWs", "Japanese cannibalism of Allied POWs", etc., etc., etc., ad nauseum!
In other words, the Japanese were completely inhuman. But so many got away with their crimes. It seems like there was more accountability in the European theater, a high number of Nazi generals.
Yes they ran crying to mommy when they got nuked. They forgot the murders they had committed. And that was the only way to stop the killing.
Sorry Japanese leaders. So goad the US developed the bomb first. I have no doubt these fanatical Japanese leaders would’ve dropped them all over the US had they completed it first.
And the Japanese still don't apologize. As tech advances, I'm sure their neighbors are itching to dispatch with them all.
@Harry Hanz No, Mr. Hanz, I can't say "useless slaughter of than one million Japanese civilians blah, blah, blah, Hiroshima & Nagasaki."
Why? Because, THAT AND NOTHING ELSE got them to the deck of the USS Missouri.
Remember, they started with indiscriminate civilian bombing with the Rape of Nanking. Any civilians working in war production factories there? Not!
But Japanese civilians were working in war production, were supporting their war effort, and indeed made the whole sustainability of the Japanese aggression across the entire Pacific possible. They were an integral part of the war effort; they were the war effort. If the Japanese military was the point of the spear, the civilian population was the shaft.
And, that's why, in the era of modern warfare, which started way before the 20th century, civilians populations have been legitimately viewed as an integral part of the war making process. That's why, 160 yrs ago, Gen. W.T. Sherman stated "War is hell!" He wasn't referring to the battlefield carnage, but directly to the civilian component.
Lest we forget, dropping the atom bombs on Japan, BY EVERY ANALYSIS THEN & NOW, saved countless Allied lives. And, in case you weren't around then to know, by 1945 the parents of those Allied lives were IN NO MOOD to trade their sons & daughters lives to "save" Japanese lives.
So, the Allies didn't have "clean hands", you assert?
Seems to me, people that start wars of aggression have no justification for complaining when other people finish what they started, and visit upon them what they sought to do to others.
It's almost biblical: "They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind."
You misread Curtis Lemay. His reference to it being a "crime"--the low level Tokyo firebombings--is by way of saying it's a crying shame. A shame that the Japanese were willing to allow their population to endure this in order to continue the conflict. Lemay ordered the bombing, and he advocated for similar approaches to bombing in subsequent conflicts, you may recall.
The crazy thing is that he went to his death with no regrets and was proud of what he had done
Yes a wanker till the end.
I hope he’s in hell
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My grandfather always talked about how brutal the Japanese were. He always said if he made it out he’ll be a devoted Christan.
No more brutsl than america
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Some of the most brutal acts in the history of the world have been committed by professing Christians.
Believe me. Judgement day will also be brutal but only fair. God is not mocked. What you sow you will definitely reap.
@@milesbrown8016 que Dios existen actualmente unos 4.550 dioses en el planeta tierra, y si contamos los de otros planetas ya ni te cuento
@@milesbrown8016 that's the uncomfortable truth..
My sentence was too harsh ?? ....Well ! Stop cutting soldiers heads off then ??
Civilians listen again
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Also the executed prisoners on Wake: "I think my trial was entirely unfair, and the proceeding unfair and the sentence too harsh" - except those prisoners got no trial, no proceeding, just the harsh punishment.
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The hanging by rope like a rabid dog couldn't have happened to a nicer guy, it appears.
we shoot rabid dogs
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Fair enough.
We can't blame the dog.
@@mikejones9961 The dogs have a viral justification, it isn't their fault ...
@@alessiodecarolis not the point
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Most Japanese war criminals escaped justice due to the Korean War and the subsequent need for an Asian ally to help keep the Soviet and Chinese forces at bay.
It is called "realpolitics".NO permanent friends,or enemies.Only permanent interests
Many of the worst Japanese war criminals - such as those who worked in Unit 731- avoided punishment because they did deals with USA, similar to how Operation Paperclip helped German war criminals escaped justice because USA felt they were useful.
They also did not persecute the Jews like the Germans.
@@michaelwhisman Stupid Putin Troll
Most Nazi war criminals, deserving of execution, escaped due to "West" Gemany & Allies being forced to concentrate on opposing the Georgian monster Stalin in the East.
I have been to wake island many times you can't imagine how small it is it's incredible.
I was only there one time. I did not see the island until the wheels hit. I thought we were ditching. Was I surprised. There is an island here!
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The Japanese were never absolutely repentant for thier wickedness it was horrific for the allied soldiers they were feudal animals .
They still depict themselves as victims
@@CurrenSingh Japan should never be forgiven until they admit to their war crimes and stop playing the victim. They were animals.
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More background: The Japanese were originally going to machine-gun all the captured American troops on Wake Island, but Washington DC suspected as much and an official communication was sent to the Japanese-I believe through the Swiss Embassy-that the Emperor himself would be held responsible should that happen. The Japanese were enraged the Wake Island garrison had held out so long and cost them so many troops, aircraft and ships. After the communication, word came down from the Imperial Family that American troops were to be spared and returned as POW's to Japan. Unfortunately, the civilian contractors were left on the Island and later executed by this animal Sakaibara. He faced Justice for his war crimes and had no reason to feel he was treated unfairly.
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The airplanes destroyed on Wake belonged to VMF 211, Marines. My Dad was a part of that unit when it was reconstituted on, I think, Bougainville.
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He died like the true coward that he was.
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He surrendered his command then he proved himself a coward by not doing seppuku as any honorable officer would at the time.
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He did not suffer enough. The Japanese block knowledge of crimes against humanity their soldiers carried out from the public. Most Japanese never know about nanking.
At least when they got it, it was quick, and most likely painless, unlike the brutality of the guards...
And don't want to know
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Years ago I did an exchange with a Japanese Army unit. As it prepared for a annual exercise, the C.O. gave a pep talk to his troops. He brandished his father’s samurai sword, and said, “This sword has met many Chinese.” At the time I thought it was pretty hoo ah, but now I understand what it meant.
yep....chopped up many Chinese women and children with it.
How many U.S. soldiers ? I would have took his sword and broke it !
Some years ago a Japanese delegation was going around units and RSLs in Australia trying to buy back their Samarai swords Of particular interest was a 14th Century sword made by a famous Sword master. It had been given to Victoria Barracks Sgts Mess to be held in trust for the Krait survivors. The Mess told them to pee off. A Sig was sent around Australia and very few swords were sold if any . We still loathed them in 1980
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@@patrickrichards2577 And what are you saying?
That thing should have been executed with the same sword he used on the POWS.
Starting with his Goolies.
After it was blunted.
No, that would be an Honourable Death.
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The Wake defenders were as well prepared as they could be and held off a much larger force, inflicting much damage to the Japanese.
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Each video I watch makes me that much more thankful I didn't live during that era of such incompassionate evil and inhumanity.
Those events remain in force.
Such a time is coming, get ready emotionally.
It’s happening today in most non Western countries. I’m thankful we have the US and NATO militaries and their members who protect us from the real world out there of barbarity and cruelty
@@Berlin-Kladow Do you know what the US military did in Vietnam , Iraq , Afghanistan and Somalia ? What about what the NATO countries did in Bosnia?
We only hear what the MSM and our government want us to know
I do appreciate your channel, and your work building a database of evidence, BUT I have one request. Can you PLEASE stop talking about the “Execution” of civilians, Execution follows a fair judicial process, what you highlight is called MURDER.
@@harryhanz1690 Not if English is their first language.
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❤ I absolutely love your content and love to see any new videos you put up.❤
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What goes around, comes around.
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They ALWAYS say they are sorry when they are going to be executed, hoping for a reprieve, but it was too little too late. He had no mercy on those he killed and he neither earned nor deserved any mercy for himself.
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@@patrickrichards2577 Sorry, I don't speak emoji!
I don't get it. He should have been drawn and quartered.
At a certain point, dead is dead. You can only kill a man so much. This is one of the reasons I believe in God; I like the idea of eternal justice.
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I was city bus driver in southern California. I used to take Japanese tourists to various locations like Disneyland. They were the most kind and courteous people I have ever met. It's hard to believe their fellow countrymen could be so cruel during the second world war.
The horrors of that war are the reason why subsequent generations have emphasized the better inclinations of humanity.
the atom bomb adjusted their attitude
My understanding is the Japanese military schools were very brutal with a lot harsh treatment to lower ranking students and a strict adherence to Bushuddio(sp) while you were dealing with the normal Japanese civilians not the harden killers those school produced.
I have an American friend who married a Japanese woman and learned the language fluently. He said the he is still amazed when he overhears Japanese men talking amongst themselves. They don’t know that he can understand what they are saying. He said they act like they didn’t loose WWII, that the U.S. started it, and that if they had some arms they could still conquer the world!
@@keithweiss7899 yeah,right
even though a trap door was involved, i truly hope that the executioner was smart enough to use the "short drop" method of hanging!!!
As Americans carried out the execution, you can just bet that the rope was short, and the trapdoor undersized, so that his face was smashed up on the drop; well, that was what that jew, sgt woods, did to the Nuremberg Martyrs anyway.
@@jasonforst9862 - martyrs???
BWWWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
@@littlerascal2753 Yes. "Martyrs", my non-white old mate. As only a non-Aryan could wish to torture others to death, for his own pleasure and sadistic amusement ;-)
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Is this the best voice over talent you could find?
robot
You are right, the content is good but the voice is the let down. That’s why I gave it a thumbs down.
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Great presentation.
The brutality of the Japanese required all means at the disposal of their enemies to defeat them as quickly as possible. Their violations of "laws of war" exceeded any postponement of weapons usage.
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Far more Japanese were killed by the B-29 fire bombing that the two nuclear weapons. They were beaten and were warned of the consequences of continuing the war. An assault on the Japanese mainland would have meant 100’s of thousands of casualties on both sides.
yes and half of Japan going to the Soviet Union
3 1/2 million Allied casualties predicted along with every P.O.W. murdered as a standing order to happen the same day as mainland Japan was invaded.
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They got them back with Atom bombs .
... and they then got you back with superior automobiles and consumer electronics.
And God got them back. I won't say anything else.
Made in America, tested in Japan...
It's too bad that the US didn't secretly, already have the A-Bomb, before WWII! Then, if Jimmy Doolittle's 1942,
air raid on Tokyo carried one A bomb, the war might have ended in months, saving millions of lives! p.s I'm 77
& all of my uncles & father were WWII vets, including one Pearl Harbor survivor!
@@rongendron8705 if we had the A bomb before the war I think the smarter move would have been to detonate one and tell the world what we have and lie and say we have thousands of them I bet Pearl Harbor wouldn’t have happened
read about this man in high school. war criminal, evil person, got what he deserved.
war brings out the worst of people but he is on a total different level.
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Why are the 2 first minutes on the video of the German 1940 invasion of Belgium???
Why did Germany invade Belguim twice?
that's very difficult to answer
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My dad was stationed on Guam when Sakaibara was imprisoned there. The American prisoners who remained on Wake following the successful Japanese assault on Dec 23, 1941 were civilians, since the Marine defenders were shipped off to a Japanese POW camp in China, according to the account of Major Devereaux, "The Story of Wake Island". If not for the civilians, the Navy Commander Cunningham would not have surrendered, and Major Devereaux certainly would not have. My dad said that one of these crimes involved a man being disemboweled on the beach. I'm not sure if this was just Navy scuttlebutt or if this was in one of the witness accounts that he transcribed--since that was his job as a Navy yeoman.
The Japanese were originally going to machine-gun all the captured American troops on Wake Island, but Washington DC suspected as much and an official communication was sent to the Japanese-I believe through the Swiss Embassy-that the Emperor himself would be held responsible should that happen. The Japanese were enraged the Wake Island garrison had held out so long and cost them so many troops, aircraft and ships. After the communication, word came down from the Imperial Family that American troops were to be spared and returned as POW's to Japan. Unfortunately, the civilian contractors were left on the Island and later executed by this animal Sakaibara. He faced Justice and had no reason to feel he was treated unfairly.
@@pimpompoom93726 Thanks for this detail which fits in with the rage described in Devereaux's book on the part of the Japanese captors. They demanded he show them the 16-inch guns that had destroyed their ships, and refused to believe the damage had been done by mere 5-inch batteries. The Japanese pulled out all the stops for the second assault, sending the carriers _Soryu_ and _Hiryu_ from the Pearl Harbor raid instead of returning them to Japan, landing at night and sacrificing two old destroyers by running them up on the beach. But Devereaux had set up an otherwise useless (sights disabled) 3-inch antiaircraft gun for point blank fire on the beach, which lit up one of those ships 'real good'. On my mission to Japan in 1996, for that greatest of American Generals, General Motors, I got to stay in a hotel room overlooking the Imperial Palace. On a subsequent trip to Mazda in 2000, I traveled through Hiroshima and saw classes of young schoolchildren on outings with their teachers. Grandchildren of the bomb, I thought, and the thought was disturbing.
@@hallmobility You'll love this one. I worked for the same Commanding Officer that you did for 30+ years. I was in Japan on business around 2007 and was sitting at a table prior to a meeting. One of the Supplier team, a Japanese lady, heard I was traveling by train near Hiroshima the next day so we start talking about it-naturally segways to the A-bomb. She was a little over the top in her criticism of the US bombing, very rare to hear a Japanese speak in that fashion with an American guest. Actually, I agreed with a lot of her points-I tend to think the A-bombing was unnecessary and the Japanese were on the ropes by August, 1945. But anyway, she finally declares 'I can't imagine what would justify that decision. It was so terrible.'. The ironic thing was, I looked down at my Franklin Planner calendar the moment she said that very phrase and the date was December 7, 2007-a date which holds almost no significance to most Japanese, because their education system skirts over it. Japan's culpability in starting that war is not something they know much about, and that is very unfortunate. We all need to know the good, the bad and the ugly in our histories-or we'll repeat the same mistakes. And that goes for us Yanks as well. Peace.
@@pimpompoom93726 would it have been better to have a million US casualties in the invasion of the Japanese home islands? Historical hindsight is always 20/20 and especially to someone who didn't fight in those campaigns. Maybe talk to a WWII Marine Corps veteran who fought in Peleiu and Okinawa and was looking at a Japanese invasion. Or a member of the 101st Airborne Division that was looking at redeployment from the European Theatre to fight on the Japanese mainland.
@@ralphalvarez5465 This debate will go on continuously, there are arguments on both sides. By August, 1945 Japan was on the ropes looking for a face-saving way out. The Tokyo fire raids by B-29's had caused horrific casualties and Japanese industry was nearly obliterated. The Japanese were down to one real term they needed to surrender-maintaining the Emperor as 'Head of State'. Had America granted that I firmly believe the Japanese would have agreed to all other conditions and surrendered. But America insisted on Unconditional Surrender so the Japanese held on desperately and we ended up using the A-bombs. And the most ironic thing-after the Allies occupied Japan, they allowed the Emperor to maintain a nominal role as honorary head of state-much like England's Royal Family. We essentially gave the Japanese what they were requesting, because it made sense in US longer term foreign policy in the region. My response to you is, could we have not agreed to that one concession upfront and saved the bombing victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? As for your somewhat personal comment that I 'didn't fight in those campaigns', that's very unfortunate to personalize discussions like that. I'm a seasoned citizen who served my time in uniform for America-and I'm old enough to have known a lot of folks who did fight in WW2, in Europe and in the Pacific. My former supervisor fought on New Guinea and was part of the initial occupation force that entered Sasebo Naval Base in Japan. My uncle fought in Patton's 3rd Army in Europe. Using 'you weren't there!' as an argument is attempting to deny me any right to an opinion on this topic-I'd like to remind you that brave men and women died fighting for America so we can freely express our thoughts on this or any other topic. Peace.
I’m a “history afficionado”; & found THIS vid IMPORTANT; THANK YOU for making this vid…👍🏼👍🏼😞😐‼️. (THE info’s TOO SAD for a MORE positive “rating…”. 😐😐‼️
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My great-uncle fought from the Solomon island campaigns to Okinawa, he hated the Japanese and he carried that hatred to his grave. He didn't talk much about it, when I was a kid I asked him if the Japanese were good soldiers he said yes, he liked the ones that were good and dead.
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Why show German troops in action when the subject is the Japanese in the pacific/ China?
It's obvious. It's because the Germans look a little bit like Americans and the Belgians look a little bit Japanese. Sometimes you can't tell them apart.
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Good programs. English subtitle. Please!!
Very educational. What about the narration in this video? Is it generated by software, or is it a real person reading? The cadence of speech is so mechanical, like robotic.
Watching from Greece.hi everybody.
Interesting video.
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Ruthlessly murders civilian and military prisoners, then whines about his sentence being too harsh.
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Very few German generals were put on trial after the war. The Allies seemed to have been convinced that the SS and Gestapo were responsible for most wartime atrocities, not the German Army.
The Wehrmacht were very much complicit in war crimes during WWII, but since then former German soldiers have tried to shift the blame onto the SS. When German POWs were taken to the UK, those who were of interest to the British were held in places such as Trent Park. They were initially interrogated, but unknown to them everything they said during their captivity was secretly recorded and transcribed. The transcriptions have been kept in the archives and various historians, both German and British are now faced with the immense task of analysing the thousands of volumes in which they are kept. On countless occasions, German soldiers freely admitted (in private) their war crimes.
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Japan had the most evil military culture of modern times....followed closely by the Ustashe
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As an American, I find the narrators voice to be just fine. His tone and delivery is appropriate for the subject matter being discussed. I enjoy the channel very much and appreciate the compelling stories he presents.
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I find it disgusting to use robot voices to illustrate serious historic events like these.
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The capacity for "evil" is in all of us, a relic of evolution and the savagery that is required to survive in an unforgiving world. Our salvation is to recognize this. And also to hang the worst amongst us.
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At least he didn't use captured airmen for vivisection experiments like they did at Kyushu Imperial University. They even ate the liver of the last poor sod to die. Nobody was prosecuted for that .
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Actually some were prosecuted and executed you can look it up Yokohama war crime trials
@@emmanuelmedrano6405 You are right - and wrong. Several were taken to trial, found guilty - then released. Nobody was punished for the atrocities.
@@Crusty_Camper yea I found that about but however the person who did the experiments committed suicide in prison and isamu yakuyama died in prison while serving his sentence
That introduction. Why do the atrocities of allied troops never get mentioned in videos like these?
Because the US and Western Allies had military codes that outlawed atrocities. It never was a policy of ours, the Brits, or French summarily execute civilians or enemy soldier and any who did so were tried and punished, if caught. The Japanese government encouraged atrocities and the Germans (mostly) kept their atrocities to East Europe but they were official policy there.
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I find it interesting that those who casually murder others want clemency for themselves
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Is there vide footage of the hanging?
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I visited the execution site on Wake. Sobering.
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I think.. not 100%.. that the first Japanese surface ship was sunk off of Wake Island by a single artillery piece the Marines had.
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My Dad's ship cruised by Wake Is. a few times during WWII. It was cut off and no supplies ever reached them. It was kept secret, but some American prisoners were eaten by the Japanese. At least that what the Navy thought at the end of the war.
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Make the captions larger.
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Love the history of every video. Yet, this one referencing the Pacific Theater was supported by video clips of German soldiers? Too bad your video editor missed the mark!
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The winner takes It all.
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they should have used a long rope so he could have been hung several times each time with a shorter rope
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Guess when he gave out death sentences to others was not a problem but when he received the death he complained it was unfair?
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Getting killed by your own contraption is fitting.
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8Dec was 7 Dec in Hawaii- Int’l date line. The Air Corps was absent, those were Marine aircrew.
The Japanese got off very very lightly.
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None of those boys had any illusions about ever leaving that island alive.
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Anybody that kills people needs to be ready to meet a similar fate, its just part of the deal. Even if you think your cause is just--you will likely be killed in turn if they can manage it, that's just how it is.
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Why were they so enthusiastic with their evil murderous behaviour
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Sonic Adventure on Sega Dreamcast is underrated
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Men like him were to blame for Japan's ultimate fate.
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Let's hope in the afterlife this loyal soldier comes to understand that fair means you get what you deserve.
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Mark Felton has an excellent video on the history of Japanese Military brutality, it’s on UA-cam & I highly, highly recommend it.
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Question - at time stamp 2:02 - there is a man in khaki wearing a garrison cap with an Eagle, Globe and Anchor on it - the traditional symbol of the US Marine Corps - why is that?
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Please slow down your speech tempo and flatten out your regional dialect... then you will gain the subscribers your work deserves.
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Was he the one in the notorious photo of the Japanese officer about to behead an Australian airman?
Different Japanese officer
But, still brutal and evil.
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What's wrong with the commentary voice????????
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One credo I always try to abide...never piss on a dead man's grave. It's close with this one though, very very close.
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Thank God for the nuclear bomb .
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Biden sold our secrets to the CCP for cash 💰 .
Stick that where the sun doesn't shine .
That is what the Russians think as well.
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Too quick and painless.
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Can't read the subtitles. dark on dark doesn't work! Can't hardly understand comments either.
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Roosevelt decided to develop the atomic bomb
in October 1941, two months before the attack
on Pearl Harbor. The following year, it developed
into the Manhattan Project for atomic bomb
development. In September 1944, Roosevelt and British
Prime Minister Winston Churchill made a secret agreement
to use the atomic bomb
against the Japanese when it was completed (the Hyde Park Agreement).
The Potsdam Declaration was issued on July 26, 1945.
On the 25th, the day before, Truman said, "A special
bomb will be dropped on any of the cities of Hiroshima,
Kokura, Niigata, and Nagasaki on a day when visual bombing
is possible after around August 3. Additional bombs will
be dropped as soon as preparations are completed. Drop it
on the target mentioned above.” He ordered two shots to be dropped.
BS
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American soldiers, British soldiers, USSR soldiers also committed war crimes. The rape of Berlin is just one of those war crimes. Oh. And the underground movement / the resitance also committed a number of atrocities. Unfortuantely not all crimes are brought up. Only onesided.
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You've mispronounced his name. You said, SA-KA-BA-RA, but it's written as SA-KAI-BA-RA.
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No individual could suffer enough unless boiled in oil, but the A bombs were sweet on the unfortunates.
Yes but start with cold oil and let him slowly cook.
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Why do you take it upon yourself to censor the actual execution of these bad people? Is that what we’ve come to in this culture where somebody else decides what our fellow Americans should be able to see? Very disappointing… Censorship is on the march.
The civilian construction workers were being paid handsomely. Much more than what they would be paid back in the states. They must have thought they scored a sweet gig, but it turned into a nightmare.
Video doesn't play, numerous stops!
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Because of their Christian faith, the Germans could at least be reasoned with.......but not the Japanese......they were beyond cruel and beyond evil.
Say that to a Native American. They'll say the same thing about the English/ Americans.
@@view1st You dont know the WW2 Japanese at all.
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“…an American execution chamber…” Um, do you mean a gallows where he was hung? Get it right dude.
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For so called Honorable People. They weren't very damn Honorable! We're They!😎💪🇺🇸
Just like the Anglo-Saxons, but less hypocritical.
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Personally, as a German i was sitting ones in my hometown ,watching elderly Germans passing by, asking myself ,this are the monsters responsible for whatever horror happened during WW2 ? Afterwards working almost around the world, visiting Okinawa ,Tokyo and finally working in Guam, together with Japanese and Americans for two year's , ending in Turkey, and finally settled down in Greece during the Cyprus crisis, and now experiencing Putins Safari in Ukraine, i came to the conclusion, it's not the people it's always the elected government and the leadership wich can bring out the best or the worst of people and not only!
Especially by weakening up monsters which where sleeping for a long time ,
Outcome, we all know very well But the worse it can happen far, far away but it affects the whole world !..
Far too few Japanese were held accountable and then executed for their war crimes. Hirohito is exhibit A.
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Should have given him the sword treatment.
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the man at 2:26 is obviously another person, by his earlobes.
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Look into Unit 731. And we used them after the war.
Along with the senior S.S. officer who had private talks with Himmler, Werner Von Braun, who also visited the death camps making his V2 rockets.
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What a drear narration, milk boiling is much more exciting.
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Let me tell you only the victors make the rules. The Allies also committed war crimes but who bought them to justice.
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PLEASE can you use a Professional to Narrate! I had to stop because of this voice.
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