My grandfather was an RSM Scotts Guards and served in the far east during WW2. He told me a number of stories mainly whilst fighting in Africa, but he would never talk about his time in Malaya because he never wanted to talk about the Japanese, he couldn't forget and he sure as hell was never going to forgive them for their actions. He was a big man, larger than life, but he always went quiet if anyone mentioned Japan. That campaign shook him, it took something away from him he never got back. Rest in peace Gramps ❤
Hi!, your grandfather must've been a great man and great soldier,I myself am a Ex-Scots Guard and it takes a great soldier to reach R.S.M,I used to talk to my relatives who fought in WW2 and they always spoke of how professional, dedicated and brave the Guards division were and, how, even in battle, their boots were highly polished and uniform in good order.i was just wondering if possible,if you would be comfortable telling me his name as I love the history of my old regiment and am especially proud of the brave men of WW1 +2
@@andynoble4948 absolutely I don't mind. His name was Robert Wright from Liverpool. If you need anything else such as d.o.b. let me know. Though he served in Africa, Europe, and far east, the later was the only theatre he would mention with his inability to forgive them for their actions.
@@stuartthornton3027 thanks,it's funny to think when I was in the Sargent's mess his name would have been perfectly painted on the wall alongside all other RSM's up until today, don't know if you have ever served,but,the responsibilities of the full battalion,the man every gaurdsman looks up to(also tries to hide from and the man you have to face if you get in trouble,more or less leads the battalion(the C.O Will disagree),but a RSM Has been,there,seen,it and done it.i was raised by my great uncle and he was Gordon Highlander's,but he spoke so highly of the Guards, like your grandfather my GT.uncle spoke little of his experience, similar to so many others, for me,these men were real heroes,real men and I'm afraid we shall never see their like again.can you imagine,god forbid,a WW3 broke out, today's youngsters would never heard straight to the careers office to volunteer and how would they cope without their phone, although I'm sure some would fancy it cause they are great at CALL OF DUTY,I fear for today's youths.i look bk at my great uncle as I'm sure you do your grandfather and they just don't make them like that anymore.they were real men, and I'm so proud to have had time to spend with him.thank you
I don't understand how Japan has failed to pay or apologise for their war crimes. 14 million innocent men, women and children murdered for effectively "sport", is not a minor mistake. Germany has paid for their transgressions, yet to create a buffer for the Western world we forgot this? History will reflect our complicity.
May be because Japan might ask for compensation from the US for using weapons of mass destruction against Japan. Can you imagine what a huge outcry there would be today if some country dropped an atomic bomb, not on a military target, but on a city full of non-combatant civilian men, women and children? Not once, but twice.
@@govithabang8912 It was a brutal thing. It did , however, save American lives. Because of the word, unconditional, the USA went ahead with it. This word was voiced by Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
I really never understood the hatred of the Japanese my grandfather still had decades after the war. He served in the Army as an island hopper and fought them in close combat. I now have a clear understanding of why.
An older friend had been a UK POW of the Japanese during ww2. He had burn marks on his arm from the treatment by his captors. We were sitting in out social club having a drink when a couple of Japanese looking young people came in with some members. He started to shake. His wife told him to relax its over now. Later on I thought it wasn't over for him. They may not have been Japanese.
Before COVID in 2019 I went to the Rigby world cup in Japan . I went to Hiroshima and wrote on tripadvisor that the nuclear museum there rightly states the awful nature of nuclear war but no where does it state why the bomb was dropped . I wrote remember Hiroshima but never forget Nanking . My post was not published by tripadvisor so the horrors of the Japanese army are once again forgotten for political reasons . Modern Japanese have no concept of the brutality of their grand grandparents and it suits the west to let that be so . I have no beef with modern Japan but they must know why the most terrible of weapons was saved for them .
Also consider that if the Russians had invaded more then they did they would have subjected to that type of evil, if they had gotten ahold of hirihito he would have been publicly abused and killed.
There werea few Japanese soldiers who were demoted and sent elsewhere because they couldnt or wouldnt take part. One of the people who helped the people of Nanking the most was John Rabe, a German, and a member of the Nazi Party. He had been in Asia the whole time so hd wasnt aware the evil that the Nazi Party had turned into. He helped the Chinese as long as he could. Giving as many as possible diplomatic protection. People forget but before Germany signed the Pact with Japan, Germany was pro-Chinese. Many of Hitler's advisors were against switching from the Chinese to Japanese side. Hitler's response was Japan had never lost a war. But how many had they fought. Russo-Japanese war. And 1st Chinese -Japaneze War in the 1890's. Thats about it. Most of Japan's war history is it's many civil wars in medeival times.
If you believe the atrocities that took place in Nanking were horrible you should look up unit 731. Sometimes you will hear people say we should not have dropped the two atomic bombs on Japan. Paybacks can sometimes be a real bitch.
Everybody points to Nanking to demonstrate their knowledge of Japanese brutality. The Japanese did far more than just Nanking. They systematically strip mined every city and village of all food, allowing civilians to just starve to death. They also routinely committed cannibalism, everywhere. Animalistic behavior, everywhere.
Chinese women were “assaulted “? What’s the matter, can’t say the word “rape” and “tortured”? If you are going to try to explain these horrible atrocities, you must use the right words to describe it..
The Germans have certainly received the lion's share of bad press for their horrific atrocities against the Jews and other "undesirables" as well as POW's, yet the atrocities committed by the Japanese were just as bad, _if not worse_ .
Not just the Japanese... Don't expect information about history to be delivered to you. You have to research history yourself. Look at Cambodia, Russia, China, Vietnam etc etc etc. If you only look at history from the Holocaust then that is all your algorithm is going to show you. Open your eyes and turn on your ears.
My uncle was in the Batan death 💀 March and was bayoneted on the buttocks bay a Japanese guard when he fale down on this knees from 😩 exhaustion .Never forget, never forget !
@Paul Combee Forgive ?? But NEVER forget !! (Medical Sister Vivian Bullwinkle: Lone survivor of that massacre on Banka Island). Yes, the Japanese in WW2 were evil beyond compare. Peace be with you at all times.
No. Let the Chinese strip him naked, parade him down the street, anchor him to a pole….. and perform the “ DEATH OF A THOUSAND CUTS”. even then he would have gotten off lightly
Many of the Japanese foot soldiers who actually did the rape, the assault, the killing and survived the war, etc lived a very normal life in their hometown or village after the war until their old age never being punished.
Yes - and the Japanese even think that is a subject of humour! If you see the Japanese comedy "Crazy Family" the elderly Grandfather, who served in China, suffered from dementia, and thinks he's back in the war - and often chases his 12 year old grand-daughter around the house trying to rape her! So funny..........not...
“Assaulted” is such a nondescript word as be meaningless when referring to what happened to these Chinese women and girls. UA-cam has deemed it necessary to bowdlerized the plain and truthful words of history.
I remember looking this up last year after a TikTok thing. My God. Humans are so evil. I just can't wrap my head around how anyone could do any of that. It's just... Evil.
The man was totally without remorse right until the end, he actually had a half smile on his face just before he was executed. Bet he's not smiling now.
@@tribestone According to the code of Bushido, the Japanese in fact believed that to surrender or otherwise be captured alive by the enemy was in fact the supreme dishonor...so very much a punishment.
@@davidtwliew616 He will be, but not yet. According to the Word of God in the Bible he is asleep, but will be resurrected in the second resurrection, then he will face judgement. Just saying.
My father was involved in ww2 landing in North Africa then up through italy , I remember him always saying to me the Japanese were far worse than the Germans as far a treatment of pow's etc was concerned and he would never buy a Japanese car for this reason .
As would the Soviets, the Romanians, Ukrainians, the Chinese, the Croats, the Byelorussians,.......followed by in more recent years the Congolese, the Afghans, the Liberians, the Rwandans, the Cambodians........followed by the Vietnamese, the Indians, the South Africans.......human savagery doesn't have a specific nationality. What's interesting is that people seem to focus on one or two nationalities/regimes and/or turn a blind eye or are completely unaware of others.
I don't think the Japanese have dealt with WW2 wounds well. Today's Japan is indeed a peaceful country, but the Japanese army during World War II was very cruel. My grandmother was a civilian at the time, but she met an acquaintance standing there talking to him on the road, and was shot by a Japanese sentry in a distant gun tower. The bullet pierced my grandmother's elbow and hit another Human thigh, leaving two people permanently disabled, no one is responsible for this atrocity. My grandmother is Chinese.
He got off easy - he should have been made a 'Comfort Man'. I'm a US Navy Veteran and I've lived in Japan as an adult with my husband and children and honestly loved it there. War is a terrible thing; but there should be honor even in battle. The Rape of Nanking was a crime against humanity, pure and simple. You don't make war on civilian women and certainly not on children.
They could of done it the Dracula way and impaled him upon a stake & let him suffer until he succumbed to his impalement! If done properly he would of lingered on for some time! Perhaps a more fitting end than a quick bullet to the brain!
I had another uncle who was in the us Armys Ranger Division. ➗️ Who was one of the first to reach the main gate a the liberation of the notorious Japanese concentration camp in the Philippines 🇵🇭 "Cabanatuan ." After crawling for many yards in the assult and a heavy fire fight with the Japanese guards it ended in hand to hand combat ,and my uncle had his teeth knocked out from a butt stroke from a Japanese rifleman .He made it home and lived to the ripe old age 72 ..
I don't think the Japanese have dealt with WW2 wounds well. Today's Japan is indeed a peaceful country, but the Japanese army during World War II was very cruel. My grandmother was a civilian at the time, but she met an acquaintance standing there talking to him on the road, and was shot by a Japanese sentry in a distant gun tower. The bullet pierced my grandmother's elbow and hit another Human thigh, leaving two people permanently disabled, no one is responsible for this atrocity. My grandmother is Chinese.
@@jacksonlamp318 It is probably difficult to deal with the devastation caused by having two atom bombs dropped on two major cities in Japan. Atom bombs do not discriminate between combatants and non-combatants or between men, women and children. Decades after the war was over, people were (and, may be still, are) giving birth to deformed children due to the effects of radiation suffered. I was born after the war ended but if I were Japanese and married a Japanese girl today and we had a kid, we could still find our child is born deformed due to radiation suffered by our grandparents. I don't know but may be I would find it very difficult to deal with WW2 wounds that stay with us through the generations. The Japanese are the only people in the world who have had to suffer through an attack by a nuclear weapon. Correspondingly, America is the only country in the world that has used a nuclear weapon in war.
@@lalithdealwis4610 The atomic bombs were the most learned from bombings ever. Before they were used (to try to end the war without the Invasion of Japan the Japanese hardliners kept insisting on. And to try to end the war in time for an all-Japan to-become-free postwar (whereas the Soviets were out to grab and keep Japanese territory.) US leaders knew the "Big Blast" effect the atomic bombs would have and the liklihood of a Firestorm. What no one knew until it was tried was the massive numbers of Radiation casualties. By the famous "E= MCsquared" formula, they thought all the uranium or plutonium would convert to Energy. Not until after the war (and publicized 1946) did they learn nuclear weapons blow apart so quickly the nuclear chain reaction ends very quickly: the blown apart bomb then becomes a radiation spreader. = the 'leftovers' from what they thought would all blow up.
His death was relatively merciful compared with what his soldiers inflicted on others. My one time boss was a prisoner of war at Changi Jail (Singapore) through most of World War 'll. He would never talk about it.
The person who was ultimately responsible for all that Japan did never went to trial. That person was the emperor. This is equal to capturing Hitler and then letting him go free.
I think the emperor could very well have been prosecuted, but as he was regarded with such high esteem by the Japanese people that he was chosen to direct and control them.
The Emperor was a figurehead, with little actual power. Americans, who had long broken the Japanese diplomatic code gradually figured that out during the war. Japanese Military Leadership were the real powers in the govt. So much was done as if in the Emperor's name. By the later war, Emperor Hirohito was part of a Peace Coalition within the leadership trying to end the war. The Peace Coalition leveraged several good reasons to end the war. One, but only one was the atomic bombs. EH thought the war should end to spare more Japanese civilians. Another big reason leveraged was the Russian Intervention, started Aug 8 (as US knew it would), with millions of soldiers on a land grab. Tho they didn't know how good a postwar with the Americans would be, it was a No-Brainer that Unconditional Surrender to the USA would be vastly better than Unconditional Surrender to the Soviets. "Within a month if the hardliners continue, we may lose Hokkaido to the Soviets." To get the hardliners to agree to likely surrender, the Peace Coalition, which included Baron Suzuki and Foreign Minister Togo as well as EH, For. Min Togo got the hardliners to agree to defer to EH. They all knew very well EH wanted the war to end. By deferring to EH, by J. Custom EH truly would become the Emperor. When the hardliners still dragged their feet, unable to fully agree, EH used his new power (power they'd granted to him by for real deferring to him) : EH could then and did order the Japanese Surrender, ending WWII.
You really don't know very much about the war do you? You may find the following excerpt interesting. "On August 12, the (Japanese) cabinet was still deadlocked over whether to accept the terms (of the surrender) or not. The next day, both the Supreme Council and the cabinet were still deadlocked. On the morning of August 14, 1945, the Emperor called a meeting of the cabinet and declared that he accepted the terms of the Potsdam Declaration and asked (ordered) them to accept the terms. That evening, the Emperor signed the Imperial Rescript accepting the terms and that night the message was sent to the Allies through Swiss diplomatic channels. At 4:00 pm, Truman learned of the decision. At 0800 August 15, 1945, American troops were told of the surrender. It should be clear that even with the bombs being dropped and the Russians declaring war, there was still a very great deal of reluctance by the military to surrender. It was only the personal intervention of the Emperor - an unheard of event in itself - that the Japanese finally did surrender". Hirohito, though Emperor of Japan, had actually very little authority in the running of the country and the war. On the other hand, he enjoyed enormous respect of the people and consequently authority over them but not over the political and military establishment. The people of Japan considered the Emperor to be the equivalent of a "living god". In spite of this, a section of the military plotted a coup against the Emperor for agreeing to the surrender but nothing ultimately came of it.
The historical name for this horror is the Rape of Nanking but, because of UA-cam, you have to call it "Assault ". Iris Chang wrote an incredible book about the ...event. She was so traumatised as a result that she...*took her own life *. Jesus Christ, the poor woman killed herself...😢 Thanks for this! 👍
I was getting more and more perturbed every time the word "assault" was used, it was rape. When the words like rape are censored and replaced with assault, it diminishes the horrors of the act.
Poor Iris Chang. Shot herself in a car park. Rest in Peace, Iris. Japanese atrocities white washed from their history books. Japan has never apologised. The men who committed these war crimes are still remembered in a Shinto shrine.
What the Japonese achived in Nanking in just 6 weeks,its the biggest and most cruel single War crime Ever perpretated by any army in the world during a conflict. Was real Hell on Earth for those poor Chinese people, specialy the women/ girls. Was Pure Vicious Evil.
I saw parts of this on TV back in the 60's. My dad fought against the Japanese in WW 2. He rarely talked about what he experienced. The Japanese were horrible in WW 2 but don't want to admit to the atrocities. The old reels are what I saw in the mid 50s.
My dad was a WWII Vet, in the later part of the war in Germany. "It was well known among GI's," he shared, "That one would be much better off fighting the Germans than being shipped to the Pacific to fight the Japanese."
@@carlcushmanhybels8159 Yeh i can understand why the Gi,s said that, If you where captured by the Germans you would for the most part be okay as a POW, But being captured by the Japanese on the other hand you basically signed your own death wish.
@@johnwright9372 the atomic bombs stop the japaneess war in all of Asia. The bombs save many civilian and milatry lives in China, SouthEast Asia< Many think only of the Americans that were saved but millions of citizens of other countries lives were also saved The Germans and the Japanesse had years of a head start in designing and bulding war machine and the Germans were working on the atom bomb before the allies. In reqalirty both the Germans and Japanesse were destin to lose no mater what bcause the USA would did keep building the A omb and would have usd it n the Germans too! Oh and I would like to thank South Carolina for starting the war that freed the slave, another group of losers!
@@johnwright9372 You're right, it had to be done. An invasion of the Japanese home islands would have been a bloodbath for both sides. In the end it saved lives.
My late uncle Norman fought in the Burma Campaign,and after watching this video,I can well Understand why he hated the Japanese as they were a lot worse than the Germans,and I wasn't Born 11 years almost 12 years after the war had finished and my late father had anti German feeling because his other Brother Arthur was killed just after the D-DAY landing and he was one of the first one's to Liberate Belsom Bardon and until I saw the old film from that camp I couldn't understand why he had Knightmares for over fifty years until his own death in 1996 and Samething like world war two must never be allowed to happen again though Education as future Generations must watch and learn about not just about Europe but also other Countries to stop this sort of thing from happening again
The Japanese people had been militarised the same as the Germans, which made them more obedient when carrying out barbaric orders, I don’t think it’s a national trait, it’s human nature,
An yet the Japanese soldiers during WW1 were well known for treating their prisoners of war with tremendous respect. What happened in the intevening years till WW2 was the rise of the militarists who brutalised their own troops.
How men become this evil is beyond my comprehension ? What makes a person come to believe that “ others “ are not worthy of being treated as human beings ?
I believe it’s racism. Which makes you believe you’re superior. Which makes you think the other side is weak. Which makes you want to hurt them to establish said superiority. It’s a basic human behaviour.
My mother worked (40 years ago) as a nurse back home in Newfoundland. She worked with two Doctors who came from the Philippines who were much beloved for their kindness and willingness to help. At the time, they had befriended my mother, they told her if any Japanese people came for help...to please assign them to another Doctor. Both of them had witnessed as children numerous and brutal atrocities during the war. Barbaric things... like pregnant women being sliced open with bayonets and the fetus thrown up in the air and caught on the end of the bayonet. 😢 That's just one of the stories she told us. I know that it was in the past and we need to forgive. To me, exerting brutality is a choice... just because you can, doesn't always mean you should! Pray for the Ukrainians, who are facing similar brutal things right now.🙏❤
The problem is they are still the same people capable of the same crimes against the Chinese. They still revere their war criminals at their war shrine each year.
He had a normal upbringing...? I think his father was a child abusing drunk and his mother a nympho who did the neighborhood..how else could he become such a disgrace for mankind
Japan seems to get this weird pass because they got nuked, but they were the most brutal animals in WWII. They even seem to believe they were victims, insane.
He didn't even discuss the most horrible crimes the Japanese committed in Nanking. If you want the gory details, read "the Rape of Nanking" by Iris Chang. You might want to skip breakfast first, though, if you have a sensitive stomach.
WTF wasn't the overall commander of the Nanjing genocide(rape of Nanking) brought to account? He was a low level grunt that worked his way up. the overall commander was Prince Yasuhiko Asaka. The Showa (Hirohito) emperors uncle. It was so bad that the the German senior Nazi party member officer in Nanjing John Heinrich Delft Rabe made efforts to establish a safety zone and saved a couple of hundred Chinese in Nanjing. Even more disgusting check out Unit 731. They make Dr. Mengele seem like real angel rather than 'the angel of death' Most of them got a pass by the US, as did many Nazis post war. It was known by US intellegence (oximorone) as operation paperclip
He was just one of many , and many more escaped from Wartime tribunals , either by political reasoning of that time or they themselves made " maneuvers" under the nose of the allies... Later on sat in governing of post war Japan, and formulated many of the policies that Japan still has today...
Sadly, the people in power wanted some of these monsters to work for them, I'm looking at my country America, they put these monsters to work for them, let them live to ripe old ages. They should have been all lined up and fed to the crocodiles, head 1st.
I still can't accept that Japan got away with their crimes so easily. I am not talking about revenge against civilians, but about the large number of military officers and their government officials who were given lenient sentences by the US. And their nerd emperor should at least abdicate as well 😡
George takei seems to forget how brutal his own people were when he lectures Americans about the inconvenient Japanese determent camps he was put in. He’s lucky we didn’t treat his family the way his people treated the host people they occupied. Truth is, there is good and bad in every nations history. Japan just happens to particularly brutal.
@@williamcurtin5692 In today’s world it has become stylish to be a victim, one gets so much sympathy 😢… Just look at the blm movement, these thugs get sympathy and praise for looting and murder as a way to compensate themselves for abuses in the past that can NEVER be reversed…
So evil deserves evil? So much for Americans being better than that. I’m so tired f people being tired of things they are too ignorant to comprehend. That means understand by the way if that helps.
After watching the movie " The Last Samurai" I learned something from it. Japan was modernizing and the samurais where being phased out. I think Japan was trying to teach the modern solders to have the noble values of the samurais but it didn't catch on. I guess not anybody can be a samurai.
There is a movie based on the rape of Nanking called The flowers of war, staring Christian Bale. I have no sympathy for that general being executed, even if he and his men had not personally participated. Just from being there, they should have died for the shame of the barbaric acts their fellow country men committed.
When I read Iris Chang’s book, “The rape of Nanking” I lost any semblance of charity I felt towards Japan. I eventually had to get the book out of my home. Reading it gave me nightmares. No use in punishing future generations - but, her book should be required reading in Japan. I’m aware that some in Japan still cling to their generals as heroes. Thankfully they’ve been reduced to pitiful crowd of misguided malcontents that are no more harmful than a mosquito.
The Nanking atrocities were among the worst of the war, where many Japanese soldiers went on a rampage because they were mad at the Chinese over a military setback. But Hisao said that his soldiers kept discipline and, apparently, there was no evidence to the contrary. He was even denied the opportunity to defend himself and, instead, presumed guilty under some notion of collective responsibility. In effect, he was executed for things he didn’t do and were seemingly beyond his control. They killed him because they were mad and somebody has to pay, whether he’s guilty or not. It seems like a lynch mob masquerading as a court.
@@MustAfaalik The commander of the Imperial forces occupying Nanking was Matsui Iwane, not Tani Hisao. According to Matsui’s testimony at the war crime trial, Imperial forces in the city were under the control of individual division commanders. Tani Hisao was a commander of one division and he said that the soldiers under his command didn’t break discipline and go on a rampage. Nobody disputed what he said or even cared. He was held responsible for what other division commanders failed to do even though he, apparently, had no control over them or their troops. If you were under similar circumstances, you’d think it was fair to execute you for what other commanders didn’t do when you actually kept your troops under control?
This is the stuff that comes out of the back of bulls. For Hisao to be ignorant of what the Imperial Army was up to in Nanking he would have to have hidden in a hole somewhere. The Japanese press was reporting on the atrocities as if they were a sporting event. Different units of the army were in competition to see who could behead the greatest number of Chinese POWs in a day. This was printed in the form of league tables in the Japanese press. The Japanese are still in a form of denial over what was done in the name of their Emporer and country. Germany has faced up to its' past with de-Nazification and the continued prosecution of war criminals. School kids are educated about the Nazi period, culminating in the death camps. No such education process has ever been undertaken in Japan, as far as I know.
I think it’s great to study history. As far as guns are concerned people don’t want assault rifles, glocks , shit like that. No one wants all guns removed from American society.
This is why US Marines didn't take prisoners in the Pacific...given this behavior I don't blame them. Also I think the bombs that ended the war were totally justified.
I've read that it was the devastating Soviet invasion of Manchuria, as much as anything, that made the Japanese realise their number was up. They had no answer to the thousands of aircraft, tanks and artillery pieces the Soviets used against them. They knew that if the Soviets reached Japan no amount of 'Samurai spirit' would make a scrap of difference against massed T34 tanks and heavy artillery.
It wasn’t the use of the atomic bombs that ended the war. It was the Soviet invasion. The narrative around bombs and their abhorrent justification as necessary evil is simply false. It is propaganda. Even if we were to accept the US justification for the use of the bombs as true (for the sake of the argument), it would still not mean that it was right and just. It would still not diminish US culpability in this crime against humanity. Take the figure of the hundreds of thousands of US army personnel who would have died had the US invasion of the Japanese mainland went ahead and the number of purple hearts that had been produced in anticipation of that event. Now let’s look at the millions of Soviet soldiers who were moving in from Manchuria at an astonishing speed and forcing the Japanese to retreat and surrender in waves upon waves. We have two armies. The Soviet army moving in from the north and the US army contemplating the question as to whether or not to proceed with the full scale land invasion from the south. The prospect of mass military casualties applied to both armies. Any decision to invade a country that is intent on resisting that invasion will inevitably involve a consideration as to the cost of that invasion in terms of human life in the form of military losses. The military planners and commanders would then make a judgment call as to whether or not to go ahead. If they decide to go ahead they will try to minimise their losses and maximise the losses of their enemy. They will try to make sure that their losses were not incurred in vain. These considerations apply to all states and armies. Yet the Soviet army who already suffered 20 million deaths decides to go ahead with the land invasion but the US army decides to not go ahead with it in order to avoid further military casualties and proceeds to target the civilian population by dropping the bombs instead. Is the life of a US soldier more valuable than the life of a child in Hiroshima who has no say in the conduct of the war? Can the life of a soldier of an invading army ever be more valuable than the civilian population of a country that is being invaded? The death of a soldier who is being sent as a cannon fodder is certainly a tragic event and ought to be avoided if at all possible but under no circumstances can it ever be right and just to deliberately set out to commit mass murder amongst a civilian population in order to avoid military casualties.
@@tolgarupture the Japanese did not abide by the rules of war. They committed atrocities by the thousands in China. They got what they deserved...Karma...
Am I to assume the reason for your disclaimer is people, including myself didn't care for your sugar coating of these events? Not using the word rape perhaps?
. William H McNeil was the pre eminent historian of the second part of the 20th century. He said that Japan was the most warlike society on Earth for hundreds of years during the Shogun period. They regularly committed atrocities against themselves and carried this over to other countries especially during WW2. So this was not something new to them. Japanese soldiers were routinely beaten and abused and treated without respect so how could we expect anything less when they captured Allied Soldiers. They did not even have a word for surrender. The Japanese military told the emperor that Japan could never be bombed. So when this happened in the Doolittle raid they lost a huge amount of face. IE they lost a huge amount of respect which meant everything to them. They did everything they could do to recapture the flyers bombed Japan. Its estimated that over 400,000 Chinese died as a result of the Japanese military's attempt to get them back. Think on all this.
Seems to me this guy was a scapegoat for the Japanese war crimes. The Allies had to have a token General to execute to make up for the many atrocities the Imperial Army committed in China. The main benefit was for Chiang Kai Shek, leader of the Nationalists who was himself guilty of many war crimes against the Communists. In fact he benefitted from the campaign Red Guards put up against the Japanese. He would also have benefitted from collaborating with Japan if the Western Allies hadn’t insisted he take a proactive role in resisting. One reason China layes claim to Taiwan is because that is where the Nationalists retreated to when the war in the mainland was lost. There is never just one perspective. Taiwan, like Israel, is a convenient stepping stone for the Western democracies to keep undesirable nations under lock and key. The Ukrainians also collaborated with the Nazis, something they don’t like to shout about.
You put together such interesting videos. If I may suggest an improvement: do a little bit of work on the rhythm, intonation and stress of your sentences. Thank you for all the good work you are doing.
So many evil people in this world do actually get away with being served justice. But there is one who will not overlook their evil deeds. And they will all be punished forever in hell.
Japan is the only country in the world which has had atom bombs dropped on it. The bombs were not dropped on war combatants but on cities full of civilian non-combatants. Atom bombs do not discriminate between combatants and non-combatants, nor between the aged and the young, nor between men, women and children. Everyone is vaporized. It doesn't stop there. The radiation from the bombs continues to affect the people who did not die decades after the war is over. Decades after the war ended, children were being born deformed due to the effects of radiation suffered by their grandparents or parents during the bombing. While it does not excuse atrocities during the war, it certainly is a terrible price to pay.
How about the abuses to the kidnapped women and girls ?, the occupied countries ?, the abuse and murder of POW's ?. Talk to those survivors, Japan did not want an unconditional surrender, the bombing is on the military leaders, read how they tried to prevent hirihito from announcing a surrender.
@@RickW-HGWT I didn't really want to respond to this one but I just couldn't resist it. According to your reasoning here, since the President of Ukraine did not want an unconditional surrender to the Russian army, it would justify Putin dropping a nuclear bomb on Kiev and claiming "the bombing is on Zelensky because he did not want an unconditional surrender".
@@lalithdealwis4610 You should have resisted ! my reasoning applies to your post about this event in 1945 , my reasoning of current matters is different . Your fallacious response combine a non sequitur, a red herring and a false analogy , your ludicrous hypothesis show your deficits, in reason , and the understanding of history , time and geography, Your ignorance of the facts are I am sure clouded by emotionalism as opposed to the facts and circumstances of that particular conflict , Germany and Italy were forced to surrender unconditionally, so this did not just apply to the Japanese , unconditional surrender was needed so the militarism would not return ,that is why the allies occupied both Germany and Japan . I notice in your obtuse response you did not address the Japanese militaries culpability in prolonging this horror , your asinine conjecture on my analysis to events unrelated to the topic of your post shows how out of your depth your are in an intelligent exchange , I suspect "special " and "remedial " describe your educational experiences , your lack of critical thinking should be , but I suspect not a source of embarrassment to yourself and your associates . Thanks for the amusing response , your doltish speculation and inference was good for laugh ,
It is commendable that the Chinese granted this evil man execution by firing squad. I'm not sure what influenced that decision. A firing squad is more "honorable" than say, a hanging. That said, he should have been hung.
Can you imagine what like it would have been if those creatures had managed to invade the United States, yet, there they are today, smiling, bowing, and unloading their automobiles.
The Japanese of today are well aware of what their forefathers evil deeds and the silence is a reflection of the shame their nation brought upon themselves that would not go away forever.
a sizeable amount of them can be found in the comments section. I've encountered many of them. They're proud of what they did in the past. They were/ are the filthiest pigs on earth.
I'm British (as is the narrator) but I can understand why people with English as a 2nd language can struggle to understand him. It's obvious he's reading straight off a script and you can hear when he gets to the end of the page as he puts un-necessary pauses in as he moves to... ... the next line. And at every sentence end the last word trailsssssssss. He's also quote monotonic and the inflections on certain words and syllables is indicative of someone who has not been trained to read scripts aloud. That being said, the videos are very well put together and researched, it's just the narration needs a few tweaks. The World History Channel that does similar stories has a narrator who puts a good amount of emotion and inflection into his reading, and his voice is also much clearer.
@@-GRAVESITE- Actually yes, the US almost lost to Japan, Japan was far superior to the US in technological warfare. Japan lost because their codes were broken by the US.
None of the Allies was tried for Firebombing German cities. Or Hiroshima or Nagasaki. All this preening about how the axis was the sole committer of war crimes sickens me.
This is great war deal for Japan - after killing tens millions of chinese people and creating huge damage. only few Japan generals got shot as war criminals. Frankly, this is encouraging/inviting Japan to do the same war crime again. On the other hand, let's say if the situation reversed, China should do the same to Japan; if China failed the war, no further punishment except few high rank generals getting shot.
To this day, theseJap war criminals are revered as heroes, in the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. Japan has not apologised for WWII war crimes.
Not sincerely or with a forced hand
My grandfather was an RSM Scotts Guards and served in the far east during WW2.
He told me a number of stories mainly whilst fighting in Africa, but he would never talk about his time in Malaya because he never wanted to talk about the Japanese, he couldn't forget and he sure as hell was never going to forgive them for their actions. He was a big man, larger than life, but he always went quiet if anyone mentioned Japan. That campaign shook him, it took something away from him he never got back. Rest in peace Gramps ❤
im guessing he didnt like hibachi?
Hi!, your grandfather must've been a great man and great soldier,I myself am a Ex-Scots Guard and it takes a great soldier to reach R.S.M,I used to talk to my relatives who fought in WW2 and they always spoke of how professional, dedicated and brave the Guards division were and, how, even in battle, their boots were highly polished and uniform in good order.i was just wondering if possible,if you would be comfortable telling me his name as I love the history of my old regiment and am especially proud of the brave men of WW1 +2
@@andynoble4948 absolutely I don't mind. His name was Robert Wright from Liverpool. If you need anything else such as d.o.b. let me know.
Though he served in Africa, Europe, and far east, the later was the only theatre he would mention with his inability to forgive them for their actions.
@@stuartthornton3027 thanks,it's funny to think when I was in the Sargent's mess his name would have been perfectly painted on the wall alongside all other RSM's up until today, don't know if you have ever served,but,the responsibilities of the full battalion,the man every gaurdsman looks up to(also tries to hide from and the man you have to face if you get in trouble,more or less leads the battalion(the C.O Will disagree),but a RSM Has been,there,seen,it and done it.i was raised by my great uncle and he was Gordon Highlander's,but he spoke so highly of the Guards, like your grandfather my GT.uncle spoke little of his experience, similar to so many others, for me,these men were real heroes,real men and I'm afraid we shall never see their like again.can you imagine,god forbid,a WW3 broke out, today's youngsters would never heard straight to the careers office to volunteer and how would they cope without their phone, although I'm sure some would fancy it cause they are great at CALL OF DUTY,I fear for today's youths.i look bk at my great uncle as I'm sure you do your grandfather and they just don't make them like that anymore.they were real men, and I'm so proud to have had time to spend with him.thank you
I don't understand how Japan has failed to pay or apologise for their war crimes. 14 million innocent men, women and children murdered for effectively "sport", is not a minor mistake. Germany has paid for their transgressions, yet to create a buffer for the Western world we forgot this? History will reflect our complicity.
No complicity here guy.
May be because Japan might ask for compensation from the US for using weapons of mass destruction against Japan. Can you imagine what a huge outcry there would be today if some country dropped an atomic bomb, not on a military target, but on a city full of non-combatant civilian men, women and children? Not once, but twice.
@@govithabang8912 It was a brutal thing. It did , however, save American lives. Because of the word, unconditional, the USA went ahead with it. This word was voiced by Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
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I really never understood the hatred of the Japanese my grandfather still had decades after the war. He served in the Army as an island hopper and fought them in close combat. I now have a clear understanding of why.
Ironically, Japan is now the close ally of US and other Asian neighbors.
Same with my Father he only told us that they were brutal
An older friend had been a UK POW of the Japanese during ww2. He had burn marks on his arm from the treatment by his captors. We were sitting in out social club having a drink when a couple of Japanese looking young people came in with some members. He started to shake. His wife told him to relax its over now. Later on I thought it wasn't over for him. They may not have been Japanese.
My friend's mother, while still a very young woman, was nearly raped to death in Korea as a "Comfort Woman" under Japanese Army occupation.
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Before COVID in 2019 I went to the Rigby world cup in Japan . I went to Hiroshima and wrote on tripadvisor that the nuclear museum there rightly states the awful nature of nuclear war but no where does it state why the bomb was dropped . I wrote remember Hiroshima but never forget Nanking . My post was not published by tripadvisor so the horrors of the Japanese army are once again forgotten for political reasons . Modern Japanese have no concept of the brutality of their grand grandparents and it suits the west to let that be so . I have no beef with modern Japan but they must know why the most terrible of weapons was saved for them .
Also consider that if the Russians had invaded more then they did they would have subjected to that type of evil, if they had gotten ahold of hirihito he would have been publicly abused and killed.
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every Japanese soldier that was in Nanking should had the fate as General Tani Hisao just saying
There werea few Japanese soldiers who were demoted and sent elsewhere because they couldnt or wouldnt take part. One of the people who helped the people of Nanking the most was John Rabe, a German, and a member of the Nazi Party. He had been in Asia the whole time so hd wasnt aware the evil that the Nazi Party had turned into. He helped the Chinese as long as he could. Giving as many as possible diplomatic protection. People forget but before Germany signed the Pact with Japan, Germany was pro-Chinese. Many of Hitler's advisors were against switching from the Chinese to Japanese side. Hitler's response was Japan had never lost a war. But how many had they fought. Russo-Japanese war. And 1st Chinese -Japaneze War in the 1890's. Thats about it. Most of Japan's war history is it's many civil wars in medeival times.
If you believe the atrocities that took place in Nanking were horrible you should look up unit 731. Sometimes you will hear people say we should not have dropped the two atomic bombs on Japan. Paybacks can sometimes be a real bitch.
@@rob7hg Most people know of Unit 731.
@@anthonyfuqua6988 no they don't.
@@tony261053 I'm in Academic Communities in WWII studies so most everyone I know knows what it was.
Everybody points to Nanking to demonstrate their knowledge of Japanese brutality. The Japanese did far more than just Nanking. They systematically strip mined every city and village of all food, allowing civilians to just starve to death. They also routinely committed cannibalism, everywhere. Animalistic behavior, everywhere.
Chinese women were “assaulted “? What’s the matter, can’t say the word “rape” and “tortured”? If you are going to try to explain these horrible atrocities, you must use the right words to describe it..
He probably just doesn't want to chance UA-cam taking the video down or flagging it.
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All a part of whitewashing the facts
The Germans have certainly received the lion's share of bad press for their horrific atrocities against the Jews and other "undesirables" as well as POW's, yet the atrocities committed by the Japanese were just as bad, _if not worse_ .
Not just the Japanese...
Don't expect information about history to be delivered to you.
You have to research history yourself.
Look at Cambodia, Russia, China, Vietnam etc etc etc.
If you only look at history from the Holocaust then that is all your algorithm is going to show you.
Open your eyes and turn on your ears.
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Yes, I have noticed that the Japanese crimes are overlooked, ignored and mostly forgotten.... Its weird.
They were worse.
@@JonnyHolms I have to agree, but at some point the atrocities are so horrific you simply cannot get any more evil and inhumane.
My uncle was in the Batan death 💀 March and was bayoneted on the buttocks bay a Japanese guard when he fale down on this knees from 😩 exhaustion .Never forget, never forget !
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Forgive ?? But NEVER forget !! (Medical Sister Vivian Bullwinkle: Lone survivor of that massacre on Banka Island).
Yes, the Japanese in WW2 were evil beyond compare.
Peace be with you at all times.
Its FELL Down & Not FALE Down...
The spelling and the emojis make this tragic story just a tiny bit funny 😅
This seems satire with the emojis and grammar mistakes..l
Your uncle is part of the Greatest Generation. Men like him saved us. Never forget and never forgive!
I would not want my worst enemy to die in a firing squad. It is way to fast and kind. It needs to be slow and horrifying.
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Should have not been shot like a soldier but hung like a common murdering criminal
No. Let the Chinese strip him naked, parade him down the street, anchor him to a pole….. and perform the “ DEATH OF A THOUSAND CUTS”.
even then he would have gotten off lightly
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Many of the Japanese foot soldiers who actually did the rape, the assault, the killing and survived the war, etc lived a very normal life in their hometown or village after the war until their old age never being punished.
Yes - and the Japanese even think that is a subject of humour! If you see the Japanese comedy "Crazy Family" the elderly Grandfather, who served in China, suffered from dementia, and thinks he's back in the war - and often chases his 12 year old grand-daughter around the house trying to rape her! So funny..........not...
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So did the majority of Nazi (male and female) concentration camp guards return to normal life and live into the 1980's et al.
May their souls be tormented and burnt in Hell forever.
@@davidtwliew616 Amen
“Assaulted” is such a nondescript word as be meaningless when referring to what happened to these Chinese women and girls. UA-cam has deemed it necessary to bowdlerized the plain and truthful words of history.
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I remember looking this up last year after a TikTok thing. My God. Humans are so evil. I just can't wrap my head around how anyone could do any of that. It's just... Evil.
Humans sometimes willingly commit great crimes in the name of authority that they otherwise would never consider.
Have a look for Unit 731 - it's the Japanese medical experiment and chemical/biological warfare facilty.
Some ethnic people are enjoy mass murder.
Their view of their fellow man was not that of the Western Christian Culture. Very Racist in their beliefs, as were many Americans at that time.
Read the first three chapters of the New Testament book of Romans.
The man was totally without remorse right until the end, he actually had a half smile on his face just before he was executed. Bet he's not smiling now.
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Japanese believe in an honourable death...so not a punishment. Better to keep him alive and make him clean toilets
@@tribestone According to the code of Bushido, the Japanese in fact believed that to surrender or otherwise be captured alive by the enemy was in fact the supreme dishonor...so very much a punishment.
He is roasting forever in Hell now.
@@davidtwliew616 He will be, but not yet. According to the Word of God in the Bible he is asleep, but will be resurrected in the second resurrection, then he will face judgement. Just saying.
The Japanese in the 2nd WW would even surpass the Nazis in cruelty and barbarism.
Both were allies and the same.
My father was involved in ww2 landing in North Africa then up through italy , I remember him always saying to me the Japanese were far worse than the Germans as far a treatment of pow's etc was concerned and he would never buy a Japanese car for this reason .
As would the Soviets, the Romanians, Ukrainians, the Chinese, the Croats, the Byelorussians,.......followed by in more recent years the Congolese, the Afghans, the Liberians, the Rwandans, the Cambodians........followed by the Vietnamese, the Indians, the South Africans.......human savagery doesn't have a specific nationality.
What's interesting is that people seem to focus on one or two nationalities/regimes and/or turn a blind eye or are completely unaware of others.
So, 2 A bombs, too bad we didn't have 12.
I don't think the Japanese have dealt with WW2 wounds well. Today's Japan is indeed a peaceful country, but the Japanese army during World War II was very cruel. My grandmother was a civilian at the time, but she met an acquaintance standing there talking to him on the road, and was shot by a Japanese sentry in a distant gun tower. The bullet pierced my grandmother's elbow and hit another Human thigh, leaving two people permanently disabled, no one is responsible for this atrocity. My grandmother is Chinese.
He got off easy - he should have been made a 'Comfort Man'.
I'm a US Navy Veteran and I've lived in Japan as an adult with my husband and children and honestly loved it there.
War is a terrible thing; but there should be honor even in battle. The Rape of Nanking was a crime against humanity, pure and simple. You don't make war on civilian women and certainly not on children.
They could of done it the Dracula way and impaled him upon a stake & let him suffer until he succumbed to his impalement! If done properly he would of lingered on for some time! Perhaps a more fitting end than a quick bullet to the brain!
I had another uncle who was in the us Armys Ranger Division. ➗️ Who was one of the first to reach the main gate a the liberation of the notorious Japanese concentration camp in the Philippines 🇵🇭 "Cabanatuan ." After crawling for many yards in the assult and a heavy fire fight with the Japanese guards it ended in hand to hand combat ,and my uncle had his teeth knocked out from a butt stroke from a Japanese rifleman .He made it home and lived to the ripe old age 72 ..
I don't think the Japanese have dealt with WW2 wounds well. Today's Japan is indeed a peaceful country, but the Japanese army during World War II was very cruel. My grandmother was a civilian at the time, but she met an acquaintance standing there talking to him on the road, and was shot by a Japanese sentry in a distant gun tower. The bullet pierced my grandmother's elbow and hit another Human thigh, leaving two people permanently disabled, no one is responsible for this atrocity. My grandmother is Chinese.
@@jacksonlamp318 It is probably difficult to deal with the devastation caused by having two atom bombs dropped on two major cities in Japan. Atom bombs do not discriminate between combatants and non-combatants or between men, women and children. Decades after the war was over, people were (and, may be still, are) giving birth to deformed children due to the effects of radiation suffered. I was born after the war ended but if I were Japanese and married a Japanese girl today and we had a kid, we could still find our child is born deformed due to radiation suffered by our grandparents. I don't know but may be I would find it very difficult to deal with WW2 wounds that stay with us through the generations. The Japanese are the only people in the world who have had to suffer through an attack by a nuclear weapon. Correspondingly, America is the only country in the world that has used a nuclear weapon in war.
@@lalithdealwis4610 The atomic bombs were the most learned from bombings ever. Before they were used (to try to end the war without the Invasion of Japan the Japanese hardliners kept insisting on. And to try to end the war in time for an all-Japan to-become-free postwar (whereas the Soviets were out to grab and keep Japanese territory.) US leaders knew the "Big Blast" effect the atomic bombs would have and the liklihood of a Firestorm. What no one knew until it was tried was the massive numbers of Radiation casualties. By the famous "E= MCsquared" formula, they thought all the uranium or plutonium would convert to Energy. Not until after the war (and publicized 1946) did they learn nuclear weapons blow apart so quickly the nuclear chain reaction ends very quickly: the blown apart bomb then becomes a radiation spreader. = the 'leftovers' from what they thought would all blow up.
His death was relatively merciful compared with what his soldiers inflicted on others. My one time boss was a prisoner of war at Changi Jail (Singapore) through most of World War 'll. He would never talk about it.
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The horrors of war are too great for any man to endure.
@@davidtwliew616 Nonetheless they do.
The person who was ultimately responsible for all that Japan did never went to trial. That person was the emperor. This is equal to capturing Hitler and then letting him go free.
True, the emperor was a war criminal who deserved to be executed.
I think the emperor could very well have been prosecuted, but as he was regarded with such high esteem by the Japanese people that he was chosen to direct and control them.
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The Emperor was a figurehead, with little actual power. Americans, who had long broken the Japanese diplomatic code gradually figured that out during the war. Japanese Military Leadership were the real powers in the govt. So much was done as if in the Emperor's name. By the later war, Emperor Hirohito was part of a Peace Coalition within the leadership trying to end the war. The Peace Coalition leveraged several good reasons to end the war. One, but only one was the atomic bombs. EH thought the war should end to spare more Japanese civilians. Another big reason leveraged was the Russian Intervention, started Aug 8 (as US knew it would), with millions of soldiers on a land grab. Tho they didn't know how good a postwar with the Americans would be, it was a No-Brainer that Unconditional Surrender to the USA would be vastly better than Unconditional Surrender to the Soviets. "Within a month if the hardliners continue, we may lose Hokkaido to the Soviets." To get the hardliners to agree to likely surrender, the Peace Coalition, which included Baron Suzuki and Foreign Minister Togo as well as EH, For. Min Togo got the hardliners to agree to defer to EH. They all knew very well EH wanted the war to end. By deferring to EH, by J. Custom EH truly would become the Emperor. When the hardliners still dragged their feet, unable to fully agree, EH used his new power (power they'd granted to him by for real deferring to him) : EH could then and did order the Japanese Surrender, ending WWII.
You really don't know very much about the war do you? You may find the following excerpt interesting.
"On August 12, the (Japanese) cabinet was still deadlocked over whether to accept the terms (of the surrender) or not. The next day, both the Supreme Council and the cabinet were still deadlocked. On the morning of August 14, 1945, the Emperor called a meeting of the cabinet and declared that he accepted the terms of the Potsdam Declaration and asked (ordered) them to accept the terms. That evening, the Emperor signed the Imperial Rescript accepting the terms and that night the message was sent to the Allies through Swiss diplomatic channels. At 4:00 pm, Truman learned of the decision. At 0800 August 15, 1945, American troops were told of the surrender. It should be clear that even with the bombs being dropped and the Russians declaring war, there was still a very great deal of reluctance by the military to surrender. It was only the personal intervention of the Emperor - an unheard of event in itself - that the Japanese finally did surrender".
Hirohito, though Emperor of Japan, had actually very little authority in the running of the country and the war. On the other hand, he enjoyed enormous respect of the people and consequently authority over them but not over the political and military establishment. The people of Japan considered the Emperor to be the equivalent of a "living god". In spite of this, a section of the military plotted a coup against the Emperor for agreeing to the surrender but nothing ultimately came of it.
The historical name for this horror is the Rape of Nanking but, because of UA-cam, you have to call it "Assault ".
Iris Chang wrote an incredible book about the ...event. She was so traumatised as a result that she...*took her own life *. Jesus Christ, the poor woman killed herself...😢
Thanks for this! 👍
I was getting more and more perturbed every time the word "assault" was used, it was rape. When the words like rape are censored and replaced with assault, it diminishes the horrors of the act.
Iris was hounded and threatened by Japanese
There are reasons beyond her being traumatized for her death
Poor Iris Chang.
Shot herself in a car park.
Rest in Peace, Iris.
Japanese atrocities white washed from their history books.
Japan has never apologised.
The men who committed these war crimes are still remembered in a Shinto shrine.
May her soul rest in peace.
Probably it wasn't suicide but I reckon Iris was murdered by the same japs she exposed.
What the Japonese achived in Nanking in just 6 weeks,its the biggest and most cruel single War crime Ever perpretated by any army in the world during a conflict.
Was real Hell on Earth for those poor Chinese people, specialy the women/ girls.
Was Pure Vicious Evil.
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I saw parts of this on TV back in the 60's. My dad fought against the Japanese in WW 2. He rarely talked about what he experienced. The Japanese were horrible in WW 2 but don't want to admit to the atrocities. The old reels are what I saw in the mid 50s.
My dad was a WWII Vet, in the later part of the war in Germany. "It was well known among GI's," he shared, "That one would be much better off fighting the Germans than being shipped to the Pacific to fight the Japanese."
@@carlcushmanhybels8159 Yeh i can understand why the Gi,s said that, If you where captured by the Germans you would for the most part be okay as a POW, But being captured by the Japanese on the other hand you basically signed your own death wish.
It is almost certain that hardly a single allied soldier felt sorry for the dropping of the atomic bombs, so wicked were the Japanese forces.
@@johnwright9372 the atomic bombs stop the japaneess war in all of Asia. The bombs save many civilian and milatry lives in China, SouthEast Asia< Many think only of the Americans that were saved but millions of citizens of other countries lives were also saved The Germans and the Japanesse had years of a head start in designing and bulding war machine and the Germans were working on the atom bomb before the allies. In reqalirty both the Germans and Japanesse were destin to lose no mater what bcause the USA would did keep building the A omb and would have usd it n the Germans too! Oh and I would like to thank South Carolina for starting the war that freed the slave, another group of losers!
@@johnwright9372 You're right, it had to be done. An invasion of the Japanese home islands would have been a bloodbath for both sides. In the end it saved lives.
My late uncle Norman fought in the Burma Campaign,and after watching this video,I can well Understand why he hated the Japanese as they were a lot worse than the Germans,and I wasn't Born 11 years almost 12 years after the war had finished and my late father had anti German feeling because his other Brother Arthur was killed just after the D-DAY landing and he was one of the first one's to Liberate Belsom Bardon and until I saw the old film from that camp I couldn't understand why he had Knightmares for over fifty years until his own death in 1996 and Samething like world war two must never be allowed to happen again though Education as future Generations must watch and learn about not just about Europe but also other Countries to stop this sort of thing from happening again
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War is big business so it won’t be stopping anytime soon.
These monsters absolutely never experienced the torture and execution they gave to helpless victims
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The Japanese people had been militarised the same as the Germans, which made them more obedient when carrying out barbaric orders, I don’t think it’s a national trait, it’s human nature,
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They thought they were with the winning side and there would be no consequences for their actions, ie. Mob psychology.
An yet the Japanese soldiers during WW1 were well known for treating their prisoners of war with tremendous respect. What happened in the intevening years till WW2 was the rise of the militarists who brutalised their own troops.
Japanese were horrible to anyone that wasn't them. They showed no mercy. They shouldn't receive any
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The use of the word 'assaulted' is interesting and disturbing. What the commentator means is 'raped', tortured by 'rape', or 'raped' to death.
You Tube requires that the term rape is sanitised to become ''assault''.
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How men become this evil is beyond my comprehension ? What makes a person come to believe that “ others “ are not worthy of being treated as human beings ?
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Indoctrination.
Satan. He revels in it.
I believe it’s racism. Which makes you believe you’re superior. Which makes you think the other side is weak. Which makes you want to hurt them to establish said superiority. It’s a basic human behaviour.
@@kanekifriedchicken That can’t be right - I thought only whites could be racist.
Read that they used live prisoners for bayonet practice. That´s brutal.
Babies as well.
@@RickW-HGWT That´s just sickening
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Sociopaths in a Bushido trained army.
They hung the Japanese ring leaders.
My uncle was in the OSS in China from 1938 till the end of the war. He never talked about it but his hatred for the Japanese was vicious.
The robotic narration is unbearable. The subject is interesting but the lack of a human telling the story makes it unwatchable.
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Remember who attacked who.
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Great video thanks for posting
This Japanese Thug got away easy with a shot to the back of the head!!
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My mother worked (40 years ago) as a nurse back home in Newfoundland. She worked with two Doctors who came from the Philippines who were much beloved for their kindness and willingness to help. At the time, they had befriended my mother, they told her if any Japanese people came for help...to please assign them to another Doctor. Both of them had witnessed as children numerous and brutal atrocities during the war. Barbaric things... like pregnant women being sliced open with bayonets and the fetus thrown up in the air and caught on the end of the bayonet. 😢 That's just one of the stories she told us. I know that it was in the past and we need to forgive. To me, exerting brutality is a choice... just because you can, doesn't always mean you should! Pray for the Ukrainians, who are facing similar brutal things right now.🙏❤
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The book the rape of nanking is harrowing read
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The problem is they are still the same people capable of the same crimes against the Chinese. They still revere their war criminals at their war shrine each year.
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Should level that bloody shrine.
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I note that the narrator uses the word "assaulted" each time he means "raped". I'm not sure why he does this.
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He had a normal upbringing...? I think his father was a child abusing drunk and his mother a nympho who did the neighborhood..how else could he become such a disgrace for mankind
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Japan seems to get this weird pass because they got nuked, but they were the most brutal animals in WWII. They even seem to believe they were victims, insane.
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He didn't even discuss the most horrible crimes the Japanese committed in Nanking. If you want the gory details, read "the Rape of Nanking" by Iris Chang. You might want to skip breakfast first, though, if you have a sensitive stomach.
Great book, not easy to get through, Unit 731 was as horrible as any Nazi facility.
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WTF wasn't the overall commander of the Nanjing genocide(rape of Nanking) brought to account?
He was a low level grunt that worked his way up.
the overall commander was Prince Yasuhiko Asaka. The Showa (Hirohito) emperors uncle.
It was so bad that the the German senior Nazi party member officer in Nanjing John Heinrich Delft Rabe made efforts to establish a safety zone and saved a couple of hundred Chinese in Nanjing.
Even more disgusting check out Unit 731. They make Dr. Mengele seem like real angel rather than 'the angel of death'
Most of them got a pass by the US, as did many Nazis post war. It was known by US intellegence (oximorone) as operation paperclip
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He was just one of many , and many more escaped from Wartime tribunals , either by political reasoning of that time or they themselves made " maneuvers" under the nose of the allies... Later on sat in governing of post war Japan, and formulated many of the policies that Japan still has today...
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And the Japanese squawk about Hiroshima and Nagasaki while asking why, this is why.
An ex soldier once told me ,''It was a mistake dropping 2 atomic bombs on Japan, they should have dropped 6''.
Murder is murder! It’s doesn’t matter it was made by bayonets or nuclear bombs!!!
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Not enough Japanese were excited. They were monsters.
Iam so sorry I meant executed. They got away with murder and cruelty.
Thank you for sharing
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Sadly, the people in power wanted some of these monsters to work for them, I'm looking at my country America, they put these monsters to work for them, let them live to ripe old ages. They should have been all lined up and fed to the crocodiles, head 1st.
Ghoul! Why not feet first, it would have been delightfully slower and more agonising.
People in power are still at it today, at the expense of ordinary folks who can hardly get by.
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I still can't accept that Japan got away with their crimes so easily. I am not talking about revenge against civilians, but about the large number of military officers and their government officials who were given lenient sentences by the US. And their nerd emperor should at least abdicate as well 😡
The biggest Japanese criminal of all went free -- Hirohito...
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The japanese Emporor should have paid with his life.
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He is just a bloody puppet head.
Every injustice is written upon the tablets of eternity & there is a day of reckoning. Hell is the place for human monsters.
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I guess the same in HK and Singapore, my home town.
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George takei seems to forget how brutal his own people were when he lectures Americans about the inconvenient Japanese determent camps he was put in. He’s lucky we didn’t treat his family the way his people treated the host people they occupied. Truth is, there is good and bad in every nations history. Japan just happens to particularly brutal.
I get tired of Takei bitching about this and that but "his people"? He's an American-born citizen and his parents were citizens, one born here.
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In today’s world it has become stylish to be a victim, one gets so much sympathy 😢…
Just look at the blm movement, these thugs get sympathy and praise for looting and murder as a way to compensate themselves for abuses in the past that can NEVER be reversed…
Yeah Mr. Sulu is still lost in space. He can go you-know-what himself and his mother and father.
So evil deserves evil? So much for Americans being better than that. I’m so tired f people being tired of things they are too ignorant to comprehend. That means understand by the way if that helps.
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After watching the movie " The Last Samurai" I learned something from it. Japan was modernizing and the samurais where being phased out. I think Japan was trying to teach the modern solders to have the noble values of the samurais but it didn't catch on. I guess not anybody can be a samurai.
It was a racial war both countries Japan n Germany saw themselves as superior to others like Chinese and Jews
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There is a movie based on the rape of Nanking called The flowers of war, staring Christian Bale. I have no sympathy for that general being executed, even if he and his men had not personally participated. Just from being there, they should have died for the shame of the barbaric acts their fellow country men committed.
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Very well presented...keep up the good works.
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When I read Iris Chang’s book, “The rape of Nanking” I lost any semblance of charity I felt towards Japan. I eventually had to get the book out of my home. Reading it gave me nightmares. No use in punishing future generations - but, her book should be required reading in Japan. I’m aware that some in Japan still cling to their generals as heroes. Thankfully they’ve been reduced to pitiful crowd of misguided malcontents that are no more harmful than a mosquito.
The Nanking atrocities were among the worst of the war, where many Japanese soldiers went on a rampage because they were mad at the Chinese over a military setback. But Hisao said that his soldiers kept discipline and, apparently, there was no evidence to the contrary. He was even denied the opportunity to defend himself and, instead, presumed guilty under some notion of collective responsibility. In effect, he was executed for things he didn’t do and were seemingly beyond his control. They killed him because they were mad and somebody has to pay, whether he’s guilty or not. It seems like a lynch mob masquerading as a court.
@Rocket. You mean Hisao was in charge of the campaign & was ignorance of what his soldiers did???🤣🤣🤣
@@MustAfaalik The commander of the Imperial forces occupying Nanking was Matsui Iwane, not Tani Hisao. According to Matsui’s testimony at the war crime trial, Imperial forces in the city were under the control of individual division commanders. Tani Hisao was a commander of one division and he said that the soldiers under his command didn’t break discipline and go on a rampage. Nobody disputed what he said or even cared. He was held responsible for what other division commanders failed to do even though he, apparently, had no control over them or their troops. If you were under similar circumstances, you’d think it was fair to execute you for what other commanders didn’t do when you actually kept your troops under control?
This is the stuff that comes out of the back of bulls. For Hisao to be ignorant of what the Imperial Army was up to in Nanking he would have to have hidden in a hole somewhere. The Japanese press was reporting on the atrocities as if they were a sporting event. Different units of the army were in competition to see who could behead the greatest number of Chinese POWs in a day. This was printed in the form of league tables in the Japanese press. The Japanese are still in a form of denial over what was done in the name of their Emporer and country. Germany has faced up to its' past with de-Nazification and the continued prosecution of war criminals. School kids are educated about the Nazi period, culminating in the death camps. No such education process has ever been undertaken in Japan, as far as I know.
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This should be an advertisement for rhe 2nd Amendment.
Why?
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Kind of hard to murder a person when that person is shooting back at the bad person!! Long live the 2nd amendment !!
So your saying you spent a lot of money for a degree that will make you at most 45k dosent sound to smart too me
I think it’s great to study history. As far as guns are concerned people don’t want assault rifles, glocks , shit like that. No one wants all guns removed from American society.
Read up about the pig basket massacre.
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This is why US Marines didn't take prisoners in the Pacific...given this behavior I don't blame them. Also I think the bombs that ended the war were totally justified.
Two? Only two? Just two? That’s what so many Chinese friends ask
I've read that it was the devastating Soviet invasion of Manchuria, as much as anything, that made the Japanese realise their number was up. They had no answer to the thousands of aircraft, tanks and artillery pieces the Soviets used against them. They knew that if the Soviets reached Japan no amount of 'Samurai spirit' would make a scrap of difference against massed T34 tanks and heavy artillery.
It wasn’t the use of the atomic bombs that ended the war. It was the Soviet invasion. The narrative around bombs and their abhorrent justification as necessary evil is simply false. It is propaganda.
Even if we were to accept the US justification for the use of the bombs as true (for the sake of the argument), it would still not mean that it was right and just. It would still not diminish US culpability in this crime against humanity.
Take the figure of the hundreds of thousands of US army personnel who would have died had the US invasion of the Japanese mainland went ahead and the number of purple hearts that had been produced in anticipation of that event. Now let’s look at the millions of Soviet soldiers who were moving in from Manchuria at an astonishing speed and forcing the Japanese to retreat and surrender in waves upon waves. We have two armies. The Soviet army moving in from the north and the US army contemplating the question as to whether or not to proceed with the full scale land invasion from the south. The prospect of mass military casualties applied to both armies. Any decision to invade a country that is intent on resisting that invasion will inevitably involve a consideration as to the cost of that invasion in terms of human life in the form of military losses. The military planners and commanders would then make a judgment call as to whether or not to go ahead. If they decide to go ahead they will try to minimise their losses and maximise the losses of their enemy. They will try to make sure that their losses were not incurred in vain.
These considerations apply to all states and armies. Yet the Soviet army who already suffered 20 million deaths decides to go ahead with the land invasion but the US army decides to not go ahead with it in order to avoid further military casualties and proceeds to target the civilian population by dropping the bombs instead.
Is the life of a US soldier more valuable than the life of a child in Hiroshima who has no say in the conduct of the war? Can the life of a soldier of an invading army ever be more valuable than the civilian population of a country that is being invaded? The death of a soldier who is being sent as a cannon fodder is certainly a tragic event and ought to be avoided if at all possible but under no circumstances can it ever be right and just to deliberately set out to commit mass murder amongst a civilian population in order to avoid military casualties.
@@tolgarupture the Japanese did not abide by the rules of war. They committed atrocities by the thousands in China. They got what they deserved...Karma...
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Those Japanese WW2 soldiers were sadists!
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savage nation with no humanity left
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Am I to assume the reason for your disclaimer is people, including myself didn't care for your sugar coating of these events? Not using the word rape perhaps?
Blame the accursed algorithm
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This is why the Chinese are offended by the so-called ww2 dates 39-45 war. They refer to the 37-45 war.
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. William H McNeil was the pre eminent historian of the second part of the 20th century. He said that Japan was the most warlike society on Earth for hundreds of years during the Shogun period. They regularly committed atrocities against themselves and carried this over to other countries especially during WW2. So this was not something new to them. Japanese soldiers were routinely beaten and abused and treated without respect so how could we expect anything less when they captured Allied Soldiers. They did not even have a word for surrender. The Japanese military told the emperor that Japan could never be bombed. So when this happened in the Doolittle raid they lost a huge amount of face. IE they lost a huge amount of respect which meant everything to them. They did everything they could do to recapture the flyers bombed Japan. Its estimated that over 400,000 Chinese died as a result of the Japanese military's attempt to get them back. Think on all this.
War crimes seems an absurd term. War should be a crime.
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The japanese murdered 70,000 in nanking and most ended up floating in the river
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Thank you, great report.
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Seems to me this guy was a scapegoat for the Japanese war crimes. The Allies had to have a token General to execute to make up for the many atrocities the Imperial Army committed in China. The main benefit was for Chiang Kai Shek, leader of the Nationalists who was himself guilty of many war crimes against the Communists. In fact he benefitted from the campaign Red Guards put up against the Japanese. He would also have benefitted from collaborating with Japan if the Western Allies hadn’t insisted he take a proactive role in resisting. One reason China layes claim to Taiwan is because that is where the Nationalists retreated to when the war in the mainland was lost. There is never just one perspective. Taiwan, like Israel, is a convenient stepping stone for the Western democracies to keep undesirable nations under lock and key. The Ukrainians also collaborated with the Nazis, something they don’t like to shout about.
Well, the Communists are evil and brutal themselves. Communists and socialistic have a glaring record of brutality and evil!
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You put together such interesting videos. If I may suggest an improvement: do a little bit of work on the rhythm, intonation and stress of your sentences. Thank you for all the good work you are doing.
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He Got What He Deserved...
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So many evil people in this world do actually get away with being served justice. But there is one who will not overlook their evil deeds. And they will all be punished forever in hell.
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Just how do you or anyone else know?
Japan is the only country in the world which has had atom bombs dropped on it. The bombs were not dropped on war combatants but on cities full of civilian non-combatants. Atom bombs do not discriminate between combatants and non-combatants, nor between the aged and the young, nor between men, women and children. Everyone is vaporized. It doesn't stop there. The radiation from the bombs continues to affect the people who did not die decades after the war is over. Decades after the war ended, children were being born deformed due to the effects of radiation suffered by their grandparents or parents during the bombing. While it does not excuse atrocities during the war, it certainly is a terrible price to pay.
It's karma
How about the abuses to the kidnapped women and girls ?, the occupied countries ?, the abuse and murder of POW's ?. Talk to those survivors, Japan did not want an unconditional surrender, the bombing is on the military leaders, read how they tried to prevent hirihito from announcing a surrender.
@@RickW-HGWT I didn't really want to respond to this one but I just couldn't resist it. According to your reasoning here, since the President of Ukraine did not want an unconditional surrender to the Russian army, it would justify Putin dropping a nuclear bomb on Kiev and claiming "the bombing is on Zelensky because he did not want an unconditional surrender".
@@lalithdealwis4610 You should have resisted ! my reasoning applies to your post about this event in 1945 , my reasoning of current matters is different . Your fallacious response combine a non sequitur, a red herring and a false analogy , your ludicrous hypothesis show your deficits, in reason , and the understanding of history , time and geography, Your ignorance of the facts are I am sure clouded by emotionalism as opposed to the facts and circumstances of that particular conflict , Germany and Italy were forced to surrender unconditionally, so this did not just apply to the Japanese , unconditional surrender was needed so the militarism would not return ,that is why the allies occupied both Germany and Japan . I notice in your obtuse response you did not address the Japanese militaries culpability in prolonging this horror , your asinine conjecture on my analysis to events unrelated to the topic of your post shows how out of your depth your are in an intelligent exchange , I suspect "special " and "remedial " describe your educational experiences , your lack of critical thinking should be , but I suspect not a source of embarrassment to yourself and your associates . Thanks for the amusing response , your doltish speculation and inference was good for laugh ,
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It is commendable that the Chinese granted this evil man execution by firing squad. I'm not sure what influenced that decision. A firing squad is more "honorable" than say, a hanging. That said, he should have been hung.
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Hung, drawn and quartered as in Good Olde Merry England!
Death by gunfire as. capital punishment for war crimes should not be implemented for these war criminals in place of the rope.
Can you imagine what like it would have been if those creatures had managed to invade the United States, yet, there they are today, smiling, bowing, and unloading their automobiles.
but i wonder why there are no photos or movies of nanjing massacre...?...
That first picture looked like Tojo.
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The losers take the blame
Except the Americans in Vietnam
Although they lost no blame attached to westmoreland for my lai!
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THE JAPANESE MIST PROCEED SOME APOLOGISE TOWARD THE CHINESE AND KOREAN PEOPLES.FOR THE INVASION OF RHE WORLD WAR 2.
One thing we shall never ever see is a japanese in the comments section. I've never seen one. Have you?
The Japanese of today are well aware of what their forefathers evil deeds and the silence is a reflection of the shame their nation brought upon themselves that would not go away forever.
a sizeable amount of them can be found in the comments section. I've encountered many of them. They're proud of what they did in the past. They were/ are the filthiest pigs on earth.
Tried to watch several of this guys videos but he speaks to fast and with his accent. I can't even understand him.
You can't understand him?! Where are you from?
I'm British (as is the narrator) but I can understand why people with English as a 2nd language can struggle to understand him. It's obvious he's reading straight off a script and you can hear when he gets to the end of the page as he puts un-necessary pauses in as he moves to...
... the next line. And at every sentence end the last word trailsssssssss. He's also quote monotonic and the inflections on certain words and syllables is indicative of someone who has not been trained to read scripts aloud.
That being said, the videos are very well put together and researched, it's just the narration needs a few tweaks. The World History Channel that does similar stories has a narrator who puts a good amount of emotion and inflection into his reading, and his voice is also much clearer.
@@alannevin2490 I'm a native English speaker and I find this narration monotonous and stilted. It sounds like a robot.
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I believe Japan was more cruel than Germany
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Define abject cruelty! The Germans werent son kind with the Holocaust!
It’s interesting it only took the Allies roughly six months to sack Japan. Then again, we did nuke their ass.
US almost lost the war against Japan ..................as for the atomic bombings they were a war crime.
@@JapanMonAmourTheJapanHouse Not even close.
@@-GRAVESITE- Actually yes, the US almost lost to Japan, Japan was far superior to the US in technological warfare. Japan lost because their codes were broken by the US.
Is this narrator reading a script without punctuation? There is no reason to the cadence and emphasis is placed absolutely randomly.
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What a way to go
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Japanese in WWII were devil in earth
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None of the Allies was tried for Firebombing German cities. Or Hiroshima or Nagasaki. All this preening about how the axis was the sole committer of war crimes sickens me.
May the war criminals rest in hell. Forever. "And theirs are lasting torments and curses."
Thanks!
Hey you said THanks this time ! Not fanks for watching as usual 😂
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Correct the spelling in the sub-titles.
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Possibly ignore errors in English. May not be the author‘s first language.
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This is great war deal for Japan - after killing tens millions of chinese people and creating huge damage. only few Japan generals got shot as war criminals. Frankly, this is encouraging/inviting Japan to do the same war crime again. On the other hand, let's say if the situation reversed, China should do the same to Japan; if China failed the war, no further punishment except few high rank generals getting shot.
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What? Que? Was?
Putin may never be sentenced😅 he will have a long wealthy happy life
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Would love to hear this until listening to the forced and ridiculous voice inflection. Bye
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