Posted on 06/23/2024 8:42:28 AM PDT by TigerClaws
Sworn to secrecy by the Japanese Imperial Army, Hideo Shimizu carried the horrors he saw at the notorious Unit 731 facility with him for more than 70 years.
The 93-year-old was just 14 when he was drafted as a cadet to the city of Harbin, in what was then Japanese-occupied Manchuria, during World WaR 2.
There, he was groomed to take part in some of history's worst atrocities - human experiments carried out on prisoners of war including pregnant women and small children.
More than 3,000 people - mostly Chinese civilians, but also Russian, British and American POWs - were dissected alive, infected with bubonic plague and used as human guinea-pigs for frost-bite treatments in nightmarish torture laboratories.
Decades on, innocent pictures of his grandchildren and great-grandchildren reminded Shimizu of the faces of the many victims he came across in the slaughterhouse.
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Do you know what ship your dad was on, after fighting the Japanese my father’s ship moved to North Atlantic duty.
Politically, a “marriage of convenience” is an arrangement where two groups band together simply because they have a common interest or a common problem. It’s not for any altruistic reasons.
One of Japan’s aims in WW2 was to conquer the oil-rich East Indies. The large British base at Singapore was an obstacle to that goal. One of Germany’s aims was to occupy Poland. But Britain had told Hitler that would mean war
So here we have Japan and Germany, two countries half a world apart, with a common problem: Britain. Hence their alliance, a marriage of convenience.
That’s my understanding, anyway.
> Gotta wonder how much of that was prejudice. <
I would say none. I think it all traces back to the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. The nature of the attack really shook people up. In a way, it’s like 9/11. Many people who had no opinion about Islam before 9/11 certainly had one after 9/11.
I would also add that my father never racist terms used when discussing the Japanese. He simply hated them. And he never said a single bad thing about China or the Chinese. So nope, it’s not a racist thing. It’s a Pearl Harbor thing.
[I would say none. I think it all traces back to the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. The nature of the attack really shook people up. In a way, it’s like 9/11. Many people who had no opinion about Islam before 9/11 certainly had one after 9/11.
I would also add that my father never racist terms used when discussing the Japanese. He simply hated them. And he never said a single bad thing about China or the Chinese. So nope, it’s not a racist thing. It’s a Pearl Harbor thing.]
I already told you this was not a racist thing as far as my father goes. Had Germany had the strength to launch a major sneak attack on New York City, I believe he would have held the same animosity.
Forgive me if I’m wrong, but it seems like you want to drag racism back into it. So I think I’ll pass on continuing this conversation.
That’s why we dropped a couple of big ones on the Japs to end the war
[I already told you this was not a racist thing as far as my father goes. Had Germany had the strength to launch a major sneak attack on New York City, I believe he would have held the same animosity.
Forgive me if I’m wrong, but it seems like you want to drag racism back into it. So I think I’ll pass on continuing this conversation.]
Wow. Thank you. Nicely explained so I can grasp it easily.
[Politically, a “marriage of convenience” is an arrangement where two groups band together simply because they have a common interest or a common problem. It’s not for any altruistic reasons.
One of Japan’s aims in WW2 was to conquer the oil-rich East Indies. The large British base at Singapore was an obstacle to that goal. One of Germany’s aims was to occupy Poland. But Britain had told Hitler that would mean war
So here we have Japan and Germany, two countries half a world apart, with a common problem: Britain. Hence their alliance, a marriage of convenience.
That’s my understanding, anyway.]
The Japanese wanted German technology transfer while the Germans wanted the Japanese to tie up Russian divisions in the Far East. The Japanese chose not to attack Russia for 2 reasons - (1) while Khalkin Gol was basically a draw, despite Japan being outgunned and outnumbered, it was expensive for Japan in men and equipment, and for what was basically wasteland and (2) if Russia collapsed, Japan would have Germany as a neighbor, with serious questions about what Germany would do to Japan, given its policy of exterminating Jews and Slavs who looked fairly similar to Germans.
..and yet, to this day.. our government and media will tell us that the WORST group of human beings - EVER … are white, conservative, Christian Trump supporters…
Well, I revile both their actions.
Had they been successful eventually there would have been a dust-up between the two at some point as it sounds their worldviews were ultimately incompatible.
The numbers don’t lie.
1% of all Allied prisoners held in German captivity died as a result of their captivity.
36% of all Allied prisoners died as a result of being captives of the Japanese.
Anna Arendt nailed it, “The banality of evil’’.
I did not know this. Thank you for sharing.
1) The victims of Japanese atrocity weren't part of a "preferred" ethnic group.
2) American public schools and news/entertainment media are dominated by communists. Communists had no real part in defeating Imperial Japan, so highlighting Imperial Japanese atrocities is not useful for promoting communism.
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