Alive and safe, the brutal Japanese soldiers who butchered 20,000 Allied seamen in cold blood

The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | November 3, 2007 | NIGEL BLUNDELL

[Stoat]

 

I remember reading The Rape of Nanking when it was first published. The Japanese atrocities described therein were unimaginable. To this day that book gives me nightmares.

In it, the unlikely hero was a Nazi who heard about what the Japs were doing and spoke directly to Hitler about stopping the rape and slaughter.

Truly a landmark work in the literature of history but I agree, quite unsettling and uniquely troubling to read..

Amazon.com The Rape of Nanking The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II Books Iris Chang

 

Many of my pops Army buddies who fought in Korea had also fought in WWII and most thought worse of the Japs than they did of the Nazis.

The sentiments of your dad and his friends are frequently echoed in this and the similar FR thread from September

Beheaded at whim and worked to death Japan's repugnant treatment of Allied PoWs

and they are EXCLUSIVELY echoed among the WW2 vets whom I've spoken with, who universally consider Imperial Japan to have been the enthusiastic purveyor of a singularly monstrous evil.

[Bigg Red]

Well, I am a lady, and I don’t like bad language, but I must say that I share your sentiment.

I did not know that about Oak Ridge. The nerve!

[Brad’s Gramma]

ANOTHER book to buy....bump!

[modican]

It’s amazing that we’re still building memorials to the Nazi’s victims, but few people even know what the japs did.


The Nazi's knew more, they went straight to the Top.

[AmericanInTokyo]

I am glad SOMEBODY out there agreed with me on that double standard! Thanks.

[AmericanInTokyo]

That explains it.

[AmericanInTokyo]

What would you say to the Freepers who are of Japanese descent? (You never know when you might even be talking to one). ;-)

[Last Dakotan]

For the past 15 years the Japanese have been in a deflationary malaise which saw their property values decline by 50%. Their middle class is in ruins.

Which of the market segments have the Japanese lost market share in during this time; Autos? Auto parts? Business Machines? Consumer Electronics? Special Steels? Machine Tools?

[Loud Mime]

Am I missing something? If I’m wrong I want to know.

[muawiyah]

Exactly what did you think the Nazi death camps were?

[muawiyah]

There were folks in the submarine service who provided land based support specifically for the field operations people. I suppose you can count them and get the survival rate up to 25%. If you don't it's 10% (at least according to several sources I've read over the years).

One of the most peculiar things about that organization is that there are no commemorative plaques, signs or memorials in Europe recognizing their work in the war. However, all along the United States East Coast there are memorial plaques all over the place noting that ships were sunk. German friend of mine (a mere 15 year old inducted into the Army in the last days) said he would always take his German visitors to New Jersey to drive down the coast to look at the only memorialization of the WWII German military that exists in the world.

[muawiyah]

The murdered all the Jews and Gypsies they could get their hands on ~ some of the members of the Nazi high command were actually homosexuals themselves.

[muawiyah]

Again, the United States would have never used its submarines against the Japanese Navy had not the Japanese Navy attacked the United States!

We would not have attacked German military forces had not Germany mounted war against us.

Both nations had ample opportunity to learn that both would be burned to the ground, like Atlanta, should they engage us in war.

[muawiyah]

There was a little problem with the public understanding of the Japanese intentions ~ their vast stores of jet planes, their development of high altitude bombers, their construction of giant aircraft carrying submarines, their atom bomb program, their bio-warfare program, etc. WAS KEPT SECRET until relatively recently.

[Captain Beyond]

bump for later read

[muawiyah]

Monica Lewinsky's Grandfather was a among those saved by Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania provided exit transit visas to thousands of Jews.

You just never know when somebody is going to rise up out of the muck and do something right, but this guy did. No doubt there were Germans who did so.

[NRA2BFree]

It's very difficult to look at these pictures. My dad's brothers were killed in the Bataan Death March along with one of my mother's brothers.

[Wiz]

Democrats did pass a resolution. It’s Pelosi’s war to break US-Japan relationship on the war of terror. Why support Pelosi for this? Guess what, some of the Democrats were recieving money from Chinese lobbyists. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the people on Free Republic were Chinese agents trying to fuel anger against Japan.

[Wiz]

Let’s hear your source. I guess you are brainwashed by Chicom and Pelosi’s propaganda.