supporttheunderdog wrote:Paphitis wrote:
What Australian and American POWs had to endure would make your skin crawl. Today's Japs have no idea about the atrocities committed under the Emperor's name and let me just add, as gruesome as the Germans were, they had nothing on the Japs.
Double standards!
I must disagree with you there: the Japanese never had gas chambers for the planned extermination of entire racial groups, and what the Nazi regime did in Russia and to Russian POW"s was was every bit as bad as what the Japanese did to British POW, with death marches and starvation: My family is short of at least one relative on my wife's side of the family as a result.
This is overloked due to the selective teaching of History in favour the sucess of Western Allies, which often ommits the crititical contribution of the the Soviet union and the cruelties inflicted generally on the various Slavic peoples, or "untermensch" as they were described by the Nazi's.
We Britsh complain about how bad we had it becuase of the Blitz: no doubt it was bad, but we vever had as bad as the occupied countries, of which we have to particularly recall the suffering of the Greeks and their steadfast valiant and often truly herioc resistance to the Nazi's, and what happened in the rest of Eastern Europe.
I was referring to the treatment of POWs.
You see, the Germans never treated POWs in the same way as the Japs, and it can be said, that allied POWs almost had Geneva standards. I was not referring to the holocaust or Nazi treatment of Jews, Homosexuals, Gypsies, and Russian prisoners. This was a genocide and a different thing all together. It was a disgrace and a War Crime on an unprecedented scale.
I was referring to Australian and American POWs at the hands of the Japanese, the death marches, labour camps, beheadings, and starvations. The Japs were not interested in preserving their lives, but to slowly offer a slow and gruesome death.
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