[yarddog]

The Germans have accepted their sins in WWII but the Japanese mostly deny the truth of how they behaved.

Such brutality as the “Rape of Nanking” are not taught to them. Many Japanese war criminals are still treated as heroes.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Many Japanese war criminals are still treated as heroes.****

Ever notice how the US government will compass land and sea to find a Nazi war criminal but give the Japanese a pass?

[Zhang Fei]

The Germans have accepted their sins in WWII but the Japanese mostly deny the truth of how they behaved. Such brutality as the “Rape of Nanking” are not taught to them. Many Japanese war criminals are still treated as heroes.

The Japanese deliberately massacred a fraction of the civilians the Germans did, for the simple reason that they were simply operating much as previous empires did - to add people and land to the empire while destroying those who resisted. The Germans were mainly interested accumulating land while wiping out those considered subhuman much as one would attempt to exterminate vermin.

Nonetheless, more Japanese were executed as war criminals. Joachim Peiper, prime mover behind the Malmedy massacre, had his death sentence commuted by the German government. The Germans made a show of penitence, but freed most of the war criminals who should have been drawn and quartered, never mind simply hanged. What's interesting is that despite monstrous German atrocities almost an order of magnitude greater than Japan's, Germany got to keep most of its prewar territory, whereas Japan had to given up Manchuria, Korea and Taiwan. I have to hand it to the Germans - they have a much better PR operation going.

[Rebelbase]

“Such brutality as the “Rape of Nanking” are not taught to them.”

One day they’ll get a crash course about it taught in Chinese.