Yes, and who ever loses get tried for war crimes.....but the Japanese took it to a personal level...War crimes were performed by everyone in that war.
yupWar crimes were performed by everyone in that war.
Pretty simplistic statement.War crimes were performed by everyone in that war.
What the hell is wrong with people
I couldn't even listen to all of it
There has to be a special hell for these types, whatever country they are from
war does crazy things to people, just takes one person to start and then it becomes normalized.
Ordinary Men is an interesting book on the subject. These guys were a normal city police unit before WWII broke out and turned into one of the groups tasked with rounding up jews to put on trains, executing people, etc in their city.
i listen to a lot of jocko podcasts and he covers a lot of heavy dark subjects/books of war. its crazy what 'normal' people will do in the 'wrong' enviroment. hes covered that book.
My dad was also a China Marine , Jan 39-Nov 41. He was a embassy gaurd. I have his photo albums and two issues of The Peiping Marine. What the Chinese and Japs did to the locals was inhumane. Dad never talked about what he seen over there but the photos are rough to look at.My grandfather was a North China Marine, captured at the onset of WWII as an embassy guard in Peking. He spent the entirety of the war in Japanese captivity and didn't speak about it to us grandkids. The oldest of us was 9 when he passed, so not surprising. I have corresponded with some men he commanded following his interment and they have said he had demons from his captivity and the way he was treated.
My grandfather reading a Japanese admiral his death sentence for Wake Island atrocities.
I don't know the date my grandfather transferred to the Peking embassy, but he graduated Annapolis in '38 and was minted a 1st LT in Peking in '39, so somewhere in there. They must have served together in Peking. He and the remaining guards were mobilizing to get out in December '41 when they were captured by a Japanese regiment.My dad was also a China Marine , Jan 39-Nov 41. He was a embassy gaurd. I have his photo albums and two issues of The Peiping Marine. What the Chinese and Japs did to the locals was inhumane. Dad never talked about what he seen over there but the photos are rough to look at.