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@@lordvictory6718 Your channel has no content, is called "Lord Victory", and was created during Russia's troop build up for the invasion of Ukraine. Interest!
I always find it puzzling that people think Japanese weren't some of the most brutal combatants in history. Their ruthlessness in battle is well documented since feudal times to include within Japan itself.
Japan only relatively RECENTLY came out of a Feudal system. They were basically MEDIEVAL people suddenly thrust into the 20th century. I ask you. If you gave machine guns, warships, tanks and planes to ... the VIKINGS, would they have been any better? This is a serious question. Not excusing the mentality, but folks don't seem to be interested in understanding it. BTW, America's own Native Americans were exceedingly brutal in their genocidal wars against OTHER TRIBES before the white man took over the continent. They would dismember people piece by piece while they were still alive. If YOU suddenly gave the most violent warrior TRIBE in the Continental USA, modern weapons, do you really think they would be living a standard of civilization that European nations took centuries to develop?
@@sanepillow59Their allies not the allies. This constant reference to allied war crimes like they were anywhere like in the same numbers and same degree of barbarity by the USA and Britain is a joke. We're talking about throwing babies in the sea to drown and eating people alive here. Go get your head checked for a brain.
A family friend didn't go through any dramatic scenes like this; he was in Changi prison throughout his captivity. One of the nicest guys I knew, he had an intense hatred of the Japanese and was one of those that went to the reception of Hirohito in London in 1971 just so that he could turn his back. Many of his friends died.
A teenage son of my Uncle Chris was tortured and beheaded by the Japanese Kempeitai for nothing. The kid was totally innocent of espionage for the Allies (for which he was erroneously charged). My family never bought a Japanese car for many decades after the war and I had to overcome my disgust for Japanese people when I met them during my work. This hate subsided when I noticed they were nice people and could not be blamed for what their (grand)fathers had done.
Tragedies like this often occur in any war, and if you look into it you'll see that the Allies did use natives as spies and coast watchers, and the Japanese also used natives as collaborators.There were many cases in which transport ships carrying large numbers of soldiers were sunk by submarines due to information from spies.
@@犬まにまにYes, but wartime Japanese institutions were executing people out of paranoia or in order to instil fear, whereas the Allied institutions (whatever individual transgressions) were not doing so.
My grandfather was evacuated from Dunkirk with the BEF and later posted to Singapore 6 weeks before the capitulation He spent the rest of the war as a prisoner of the Japanese Until his dying day he detested even the word Japanese
@@rrc4675Churchill preferred having Spanish forces concentrated within Spain alone for support against Hitler. That's the only thing that stopped Franco from sending troops to the Philippines.
As a boy scout in 1969 one of our leaders had fought the Japanese in hand to hand combat, sometimes he'd talk about it and tears would well up, poor man had seen and done things you never get over from, he was a lovely man called Terry Cotte, bless his soul
Real soldiers never cries, I doubt his story, his tears were tears that he did not kill no Imperial soldier. For if he did, there would only be smiles and boasts of american patriotism, God bless US of a
I had a dear old uncle who, as a young man of 15 years, was taken by the Japanese soldiers as forced-labor to dig for their soldiers some entrenchments in preparation of the the defense of Manila as the Americans are about to liberate the suburbs of Manila. Fortunately, he had the foresight to escape during the night after they dug foxholes and prepared sandbags. He was able to escape since the Japanese unit assigned only one guard to stand sentry for around 30 or more Filipino civilians. He was sure that they will be killed the next day because (of course) the Japanese positions cannot be given away to Filipino Guerillas or the advancing Americans. Sure enough, the next day those who were gang-pressed by the Japanese were all killed the next day.
When I was in the Army we were shown an uncensored film of the Liberation of Manila where Japanese soldiers had bayoneted young children right beside a church... American Officers were documenting the incident in case the offenders were caught and produce the evidence to the Red Cross.
Thank you for sharing. My grandfather was an engineer assigned to the Philippines towards the end of the war. I was far too young to hear any stories about what he did there.
My Grandfather Griff Griffin was a Navy Pilot and double Ace in the Pacific theater during WW II, downing 13 Imperial Japanese. He's still alive living in San Diego 🦅🇺🇸
If it makes any of you feel better, the immediate perpetrators wound up getting served up a plate of their own, as the Akikaze was torpedoed by a US Navy submarine on November 3, 1944 and sank with all hands. The entire crew was left to die in the water by their fellow Japanese ships much like their victims.
@@sdssdds8415 Remember the orders were from HQ not from the captain. The captain would have to file a report back to HQ stating the orders were carried out and were archived to be discovered post war.
@@sdssdds8415I'm guessing these murders were done a long time before ship sunk. That means there's a good chance there were transfers off and on the ship after atrocity and before sinking.
@@WalterKovacs...Add cannibalism to that one too of Indian POWs and captured airmen, the Chichijima incident is just one case of cannibalism committed by the Japanese during WWii.
Bishop Josef Lörks came from my German hometown of Kalkar on the Lower Rhine. I spent my first years of school there in the "Josef Lörks Primary School", where we were told that the bishop had been murdered by the Japanese during the war because they thought he was a spy. Logically, I then assumed that the Japanese were our enemies during the war and was then later quite confused when I learned that they were allies of the Germans...
When the Japanese occupied Java the arrested many European females. These ladies were mostly from the Netherlands and Germany. They worked as teachers and nurses. The Japanese put them all into brothels. The records are kept by the government of the Netherlands and not released at this time.
Strictly speaking, Germans and Japanese weren't Allies. Being Allies means having joint military planning and coordination of the war effort. Contrary to that, Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan fought two different wars. They were friends, yeah. Both being highly racist (but that wasn't so rare then. As if Anglo-Saxons weren't racist. Even Hollanders in their colonies). The Japanese could become real Allies to the Nazis if they invaded Soviet Union in 1941 (and Hitler wanted that so much; by his plan we wasn't interested what was going beyond the Urals. Yeah, it was the theory of Mitteleuropa which even today is very much alive, just look at the official motto of the German state TV Deutsche Welle). But the Japanese felt something wrong went with the Germans in the Smolensk battle and finally decided against this course of actions. They chose the "southern option". After that each of the "friends" waged its own war. In 1945 really at the end of the war Hitler gave the Japanese his famous Tiger tank as a gift. The IJA tried to create its first and only tank division based near Tokyo. But Hitler's present was absolutely useless. Japan had absolutely no expertise nor means for the production of these sophisticated vehicles.
@funfact8660 the U.S. had a president that keep a secret kill list and was known for ordering missile strikes into civilian targets in countries the US wasn't at war with. So yes still happening today
My grandfather fought in New Guinea with the AIF and was tasked to seek out German missionaries. He sometimes spoke about his role during both the Salamaua-Lae, and later the Ramu river campaigns where he had been tasked with seeking out any German missionaries he could find. The fear was that the Missionaries, with their decades of experience in New Guinea and the support of the local population, were leading the Japanese troops along native passes unknown to the Australians. As the only Australian NCO on hand that could speak Pidgin English he got the job, twice. He sometimes spoke of how they were the most harrowing experiences of this life as he would travel alone with only a single native guide to help him in what was then Japanese held territory. He was even less pleased when the only recognition he received for the one man patrols was to be temporary transfer to a commando unit. He never did find any missionaries, just native rumors that they were "with the Japanese". Until watching this, I never appreciated just how sinister the term "with the Japanese" turned out to be.
I had always differentiated the Japanese Navy and the Army with the Navy being more honorable and not committing the amount of atrocities that the Army did. So i was wrong.
I don’t actually think you’re wrong, the officers and sailors of this ship aren’t the ones guilty of this crime, it want committed out of personal desire. It is the Japanese system that ordered this crime, the Japanese captain was a man who didn’t want to do it but had no more option in the moment than would a slave.
Most East and South East Asian men have no morals whatsover. They are always either bullying someone or being bullied. They don't understand concepts of individuality or standing up for yourself or others. They just go with the flow and do what they're told by men who have no integrity or charisma, and so can only command authority through fear. When it's your turn to bully an inferior that's supposed to be your relief for being bullied by your superior, or how do avoid such. What's more people in the east are more unifrorm and are basically interchangeable in roles - chosen for loyalty, caste or family association rather than skill or experience. They lack the individuality, pride and charisma of westerners that do so much for our sense of justice and are terrified of being outcast by the group. There are of course a lot of exceptions, but they are largely due to western contact. A lot of them dislike everything I've mentioned but rarer than rocking horse shit are the ones who will actually defy another man to prevent evil. So even the best of them will decry the abuse but do nothing to stop it, and even those types have virtually no resistance to applied peer pressure. The modern world and its treasured values are essentially European, and spread everywhere via colonialism. Don't expect others to perpetuate those values if our influence fully recedes. It doesn't come naturally to them. Ironically Japan is one of the least extreme Asian countries regarding all that... Everywhere in South East Asia is much worse for instance... They make the Japanese look like westerers. It's just that nowhere in Asia besides Japan has anyone ever wielded the power to act out this kind of evil on any large scale.
The USAF was really good at killing civilians too. Not in the scale of the Imperial Japanese Army probably. But then again, the USAF weren't active as long as the Japanese Army.
My great-uncle, captured by the Japanese invaders of Dutch and Portuguese Timor, a member of the mainly Australian ‘ stay behind ‘ Sparrow Force ‘ guerrillas, was, amongst other abominable things, forced to watch a group of nuns being tortured, beaten, stabbed, and gang raped on a Singaporean dock by ‘ men ‘ proudly deeming themselves to be Japanese ‘ soldiers ‘. It certainly wouldn’t be surprising, judging from this video’s account, if German women had been amongst the victims..
My Dad was in Sparrow Force , 2/1st Heavy Battery - worked on the Pakanbaru Death Railway just as Worse as the Thai-Burma , big Man 6'3" came back 44 kg - Upon return re took up his Trade as a Master Carpenter worked another 40 yrs , never whinged .
My father fought the Japanese in the Philippines to take back those islands. He told me he had been to many countries and met many kinds of people. But the Japanese were the cruelest race of people he had ever killed.
My father fought in Burma during the war, he was upset by many things he witnessed, he was particularly distressed when he recalled a village where all the inhabitants were executed by having their heads severed with a spade,
My father was in Burma and Malaya. The aftermath of the Japanese incursions and their execution of native men women and children, affected him deeply. He rarely spoke of his experiences but buried them deep.
@@bruhism173 , scouting groups of only a dozen men could hardly intervene when the Japanese entered a village in force, sometimes with over a hundred men. The intelligence was passed back down the line and while awaiting reinforcements, the scouts were forced to helplessly witness unspeakable horrors.
Absolute madness. Why? Extreme racism? Is that why they did it? To think no one ever faced justice for it is also a miscarriage. Why tie them up and crucify them? Sick bastards.
Long story short, the Japanese military during that time was pretty much 'modern military with a medieval mindset.' Even during their feudal era they were equally barbaric.
@cyberzombie038 Dan Carlin's Hardcore History explores the historical background and political context that these feeling arose out of. It's very complicated, but the simple version is that feelings of racial superiority combined with notions of duty and honor exploded into the barbarism we see, because the japanese felt seriously threated with total annihilation by it's neighbours and colonial powers. By no means justifies their behavior, but i think it's important to understand how that fanatacism happens so we can avoid it.
I'm not defending Japan's atrocities, but at that time Japan was suddenly thrown into an extremely cruel world of the fittest, where white people ruled the world, by American warships. In just 50 years, Japan has changed from a peaceful medieval feudal society that lasted for 200 years to a modern military state operating a large number of aircraft carriers. They also learned about the colonization of non-white people by white people and were very afraid and angry about it.
It's nice for at least one historian to not be afraid to show the barbarity of the Japanese during WW2. So often all we hear about are German atrocities and the Japanese are either given a pass or an excuse is made for their behavior.
Many years ago I read (cant remember the book) of the account of the execution of a number of USN aircrew who had been shot down and captured by the IJN. They were tied to empty oil drums and thrown over the side. The drums were then shot allowing them to slowly fill with water, which eventually causing them to sink taking the USN airmen with them. A horrific and cruel way to kill, why not simply shoot them, the Japanese always showed unnecessary cruelty.
@HAL-vu8ef apparently the info on the Midway flyers was found after the war. I don't remember how it was discovered, but often it was statements from other Japanese who didn't like what was done.
One of the reasons anti-militarism in modern Japan is the fact that Japanese civilians were unaware of the atrocities being committed by their armed forces. They found out when returning Japanese servicemen told them what they had done. It is not like the Japanese media publicised the evils being committed during the war. Also, getting nuked and firebombed played a role in postwar pacifism.
I know of several anime in Japan which cover the wrongs even if they mostly do it by saying not showing. I assume many left media do cover the wrong doings it the current Government which denies.
@@walli6388 Yes, I am aware that Japanese are in denial about the horrors their armed forces committed. They Think They were the victims of the Pacific War. But anti-militarism is strong in Japan because of the reasons I gave.
If they don't get rid of that anti-militarism, then they will have to rely even more on US troops and involvement. Which is hardly any functional nor desirable in the long run. Then I'd wager that anti-militarism doesn't seem to have had any practicality, if ever it has any.
The cliché I grew up with in Japanese culture it is extremely important to make the appropriate excuses after mistakes or wrongdoing in order to atone and restore harmony, the Toyota president will tearfully bow deep in public if a toddler dies in a Toyota car because of a technical malfunction. But never has Japan honestly showed regret and remorse for the millions of innocent victims killed by them in WWII.
@@treystephens6166 Id argue it was stupidity and arrogance like literally saying 'superior martial spirit' will overcome the gigantic difference in power between Japan and the US. But yes, the Japanese behavior turned all of Asia against them. The Nazis did similar in many places. Of course also the Nazis doing shit like tying up their rail networks and using a huge amount of men to just aimlessly kill people also contributed to their losses. But both regimes never had a chance. They would have kept starting wars until they collapsed. Its inherent in fascism.
They have express regret many times in official ways that is actually false. But it is correct they don't do it enough and especially do it in their own media and in their school systems. And I quite willing for them to take the approach of they only have to acknowledge the wrong doing as the current generation is never guilty of actions of past generations.
My mom HATED the Japanese with a vengeance...my uncle (her brother) died in the South Pacific theater. During occupation my parents stayed in Japan. Mom seemed fascinated by their culture and disgusted by their passive-aggressive attitude at the same time. Strange dichotomy to be sure
There is a hatred that runs through my family even today with our youngest for the Japanese because it is a family culture to teach what our great grandfather experienced in burma, he fought against the Japanese in Burma and witnessed the atrocities they committed, it still affects my family today because of what the Japanese did.
@@jon9021 the vn suffer the same thing like every asian when talking about ija warcrime , but I don't see them go in internet and bring hatred about it like these guys ,
which is one of the reasons why the japanese had two atomic bombs dropped on them, some say they deserved more, a lot more, the ones who where there and seen what they did first hand.
Its one thing when we look at the large scale numbers of deaths in WW2. It can be a sterile thing. But when we focus in on these individual acts of incredible cruelty, it turns my stomach. THIS is why learning history is so vital.
Not quite. Japan paid considerable reparations to S-Korea after WWII, as well as to several other nations effected by them in WWII. Tis worth noting too that the present day Japanese have no direct responsibility for what happened, as - in most countries but not North-Korea because they're weird 😅 - children shouldn't have to suffer for the Sins of past generations. Should past crimes be well documented and studied?, yes; though apportionment of blame should sit squarely with those whom actually ordered &/or committed the crime itself.
Youre missing the point im trying to make. There is no public discussion in japan about their crimes, no school lessons about it etc..as i wrote, unlike germany@@jimtaylor294
^ An amusing notion that you can claim to know that there's no discussion about it over there at all; an absurd claim at best 😂 . Germany's the opposite extreme in any event, as - like Austria next door - the authorities over there hammer individuals for using the swastika for educational purposes online, alongwith - heaven forfeit - making it near impossible for scale model companies to sell kits with swastika decals in their countries (requiring a general change to said companies product that means nobody can have 'em). The German approach to the topic is not healthy at all, and mostly has had the opposite effect of shutting down / suppressing debate on the topic.
Yet again Dr. Felton has expanded my knowledge about WW2. Does cruelty have no end? Missionaries are the very definition of non combatants, are they not? Yet these 40 were killed. God awful. Thanks again Dr. Felton, although this ghastly tale I would have been alright not knowing. Well done and many thanks.
Regrettably there are instances where German missionaries were instrumental in the deaths of Allied airmen shot down over PNG by handing them over to the Japanese .
@@terrybrown8539 I didn't know that and now that I do, I'm further convinced that there truly is no bottom. The Great War was horrible,WW2 was horrifying,no doubt,as resources dwindle, how cruel will WW3 be. I suspect worse than the first two combined. Humans are going to human.
I'm Japanese and was born and raised in Hawaii as Sansei or third generation that left Japan. I've studied a good deal about Japan and even taken up things like Kendo to gain a better appreciation of my Japanese heritage. While people like to romanticize Samurai and Bushido code the truth of the matter is that Japanese were RUTHLESS. The war crimes they committed against the neighboring countries were foreseeable because that's what they did within Japan during wars. Just incase you're thinking the above is to excuse the behavior it isn't. Japan has covered up the war crimes it did in countless countries so well that the youth of today don't really know anything about it. It needs to be taught, it needs to be remembered just like the atomic bombings. Otherwise you lose the lessons and may repeat them in the future.
Whilst I agree with you that in the heat of battle people can do terrible things. This was clearly not the case here. There was no battle prior to getting them on the ship. They 'cleansed' the island first. Yes, they treated the people well initially on the ship, but as soon as they were given the order to kill them, they did it in a cruel manner. They knew exactly what they were doing. They could have just had them kneel and shot them in the base of the skull, but no, they made them suffer before killing them. It is clear that when afforded the opportunity, they played with their victims like cats with mice or the Orca with seals.
They were doing what the Germans did in WW2 to Poles, Russians and others. Systematic executions of people to create living space for German farmers. About Bushido code, in WW1, Japan did not behave so cruelly, or did it?
@@cuddlepaws4423 We don't know what the standard method of execution at the time was. Maybe they thought their way was more humane. One has to get into the mind of the perpetrator and not what we consider more humane nowadays. After all they could have injected them with potassium to stop their hearts as well or drugged them before strangling them. All horrible, I know. No excuses but maybe different to bayoneting babies or cutting pregnant women's stomachs open as was the case in Nanking but also what Ukrainian nationalists did to Poles in Volhynia.
The Japanese civilian population has never been told what the imperial forces did to prisoners and countless millions of tortured, raped and murdered civilians. There has been official national amnesia over the savagery in WWII. In contrast the Germans were very thoroughly told what was done during the Nazi era. Why is it that Asians cannot bear to lose face?
Well said. And the justification so often used to excuse the Japanese treatment of POWs (for instance) was that the Japanese would rather die than surrender... because its far too shameful. Problem is, they didn't stick to that principle. hell...not even the EMPEROR killed himself. How were there ANY Japanese alive to face war crimes tribunals if defeat or surrender was so shameful. Funny how they didn't apply that standard to themselves eh?
My family and I visited Nagasaki this spring, including the Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Museum. The Japanese make no mention of their actions and for all practical purposes, only present the last 8 months of the war, and of course, from their viewpoint.
They really need to do a better job of apologizing for the war crimes they have committed. It's a disgrace that they fail to acknowledge the pain they caused and it's been so long and the knowledge covered up and not taught that the youth really don't know about it unless they seek out the information on their own. I don't know what kind of teachings there are in Germany but I doubt they cover up their past. There's nothing wrong with bringing it up IF you can learn from it.
So does everyone else. France does not mention that its horrible actions in the Rheinland and Saarland directly caused a lot of the sentiment that allowed the NSDAP to gain power in Germany. Russia does not mention the atrocities committed by its troops all across eastern Europe in 1944/45. Britain and the US do rarely acknowledge the horrors of the carpet bombing of German and Japanese cities, the firestorms, the hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties there. And if they do justify it as "shit happens" basically.
France did not summarily execute civilians in the Rheinland nor in the Sarr. You do not mention that the Russian actions were a direct answer to what the Nazis did and finally, it was Hitler who began the bombing of civlians. Nice try. @@jwenting
@@louisrusso5593 Hold on, Russian repressions towards civilians are well known. Look up Katyn for example or the older Polish NKVD Action where more than 100,000 ethnic Poles in the USSR were executed. Many such examples could be named.
I was in Papua New Guinea this summer and spotted one of the modern-day Japanese helicopter carriers anchored off the coast of Port Moresby. The irony of a Japanese carrier in that spot wasn't lost on me. During my trip, I stayed in Kavieng for two days, mentioned in this video. It is a beautiful little town, but still littered with remnants of WWII. The airport is the former Japanese airbase.
Interesting australia is building defence alliances with japan and others to counter chinese expansion in this Region we are in a scramble to build up defence here and Get nuke subs sans nuke weapons atm
Hearing Dr.Felton talk about the throwing of babies overboard to drowned makes me wonder how people live with such dark secrets. I hope it haunted them every night.
@@DeathoftheWest "No one bats an eye" What? Every time something like this happens people are disgusted, cruelty against children is universally despised. The Japanese were pure evil
There were l believe 70 Lutheran pastors doctors teachers, taken out in shifts on submarines by the Japanese and beheaded, l have read this in a number of books and as a Lutheran Pastor have heard about it from missionaries who came in after the war
Love your work, Mark. You show time and again that World War II was not one big story, but ten thousand little stories, of small groups on humanity and often even individuals, caught up in a horrific world wide conflict. Thank you for keeping history real and honouring the truth.
Australian War Crimes Section in Tokyo, having completed its investigation, on 18 July 1947 handed the matter over to the American authorities, who took no further action. November 3rd 1944 Akikaze sank with all hands, torpedoed by the submarine USS Pintado.
@@GManWrites TY for this info. I read that the USS Pintado (SS-387) was actually firing it's torpedoes at a large Japanese oil tanker when the Akikaze deliberately ran across the path of said torpedoes. The resulting huge explosion sent it to the bottom.
@@rutabagasteu It was most likely Rear Admiral Onishi Shinzo. He was at that time the chief of staff at 8th Fleet Headquarters or vice admiral Mikawa Gunichi, who was the commander in chief but they found no evidence and the crew of the destroyer was dead so no action against the two senior Japanese officers.
Mark you always do a great job of telling the story and doing the research it takes. As a Direct Decendand of Parents and other family members that survived WWII in the Netherlands. I was borne in California 1968. I have some very good Japanese Freinds. A couple still alive that remember and lived through WWII. My Parents loved them and all the old ones left want to forget but we all know that isn't the way. I'm glad you tell these stories because If we don't here and see that the World has a short term memory and will repeat the bad things.
My late father came out of the occupation of Japan a 1st lieutenant. Then a Captain. My late mother despised the Japanese. I'm thankful pop made it home. To father me nearly 20 years later. RIP CAPTAIN R.L KIRSCHNER. 😪❤🙏😿🦅
One of my grandfathers friends was a pow in Japan, he was a very quiet and thin man, as a kid in the 80’s in U.K. I was wearing a US patch with a rising sun emblem on it , he would asked me what it was, I later found out from my grandfather he had been a pow, he never talked about it or the Japanese , sometimes I think these men had a victory with a life after!
I have a beautiful daughter-in-law and granddaughter, Luna, in Tokyo. My son chooses to live there. I will join them soon. My Dad fought in Europe. After VE-Day, he thought he'd be sent to the Pacific.
The name Akikaze continued in Hollywood. The antagonist in “Run Silent, Run Deep” was a Japanese destroyer of that name. One wonders why that particular name was chosen because the USA had already been informed by the Australian authorities of the atrocity.
@@PauloPereira-jj4jv Wiki says A "World War II US Navy submarine officer, Commander P.J. Richardson (Clark Gable), is determined to get revenge on the Japanese destroyer Akikaze and its captain, nicknamed "Bungo Pete""
Im not going to lie. I might be getting soft with old age. Some of these videos are a hard watch, but so informative that i cant help but need to see all of them.
I would like a discussion of the Comfort Women, and the US Army’s missing 17 nurses that stayed behind in the PI, BUT disappeared. Two later were found on an island alive, but several other comfort women were murdered. I found this tidbit of information in a book I read, but it gave no source.
Many details of the comfort women would probably get taken down from youtube due to the graphic nature of those events. In James Bradly's book "Flyboys,' there's an entire chapter dedicated to this topic, and he goes into great detail about the cruelty behind the imperial bushido code. Another excellent, and hard to stomach, book is "The R*pe of Nanking" by Iris Chang which is very much worth the money. Hope this helps
Call it what it was, The Rape of Nanking. I'm tired of being treated like a child whom YT feels I must be protected. If YT is afraid of offending someone,they need to be offended. What happened in Nanking is a disgrace surpassed by the fact the majority of Japanese war criminals got away Scott free
From what I understand the comfort woman issue was probably bigger than we know, it’s just they simply destroyed all documentation and murdered the survivors even during wars end. You can tell such instances were true because in many memoirs, allied troops recall seeing dead woman in random battle sights. The Japanese brought “comfort woman” to the front lines. Which makes this even more disturbing.
In my opinion Japan was the worst country in ww2 when it comes to atrocities against civilians and the treatment of POWs. They were even worst than Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union
@@lightfootpathfinder8218 they worst because they were exposed after loses , other like soviet or china after winning destroyed many crime documents so those crimes forgotten ,
@@sonogamirinne7172 the Germans and Soviets did treat POWs and certain civilian populations according to the Geneva convention at times. In contrast in nearly every case the Japanese took prisoners or occupied a non Japanese populace they inflicted extremely inhumane treatment on the people under their care.
Fascinating as always, thank you. Tho' never thought I'd hear Dave's name, along with Megadeth, in a Dr. Felton War Story :) Second thoughts, quite apt "Peace Sells.... but Who's Buying?"
Cruel & callous bastards, especially against civilians. God knows it was bad enough against our Allies. My late father & 5 uncles fought against this in New Guinea during WW2.
@andrewd7586 As a NZ Veteran Infantry soldier, 1960s, i cannot bring myself to trust this race after what they did to the citizens of the countries they invaded early in WW2. I have links to the Republic of the Philippines and what Japanese forces did to the people there was horrific. Strangely, through ignorance of these activities the Filipino peoples are very forgiving, but i am not!
@@daddybob6096 I can fully understand! My late father suffered what is now called PTSD until he passed away aged 87 in 2010. He still had nightmares. “Lest We Forget”.
Thanks, Professor Mark Felton, for exposing this little known horrific tragedy. Hitler made a big mistake to ally Germany with Japan. When Hitler broke the German Soviet alliance by invading the Soviet empire, Japan refused to declare war and attack the Soviet empire. Japan showed itself not to be a good ally of Germany. Germany lost the war on December 11th ,1941, the very day that Germany unjustly declared war on the USA. General MacArthur made a big mistake not to fully implement total just punishment against the sinister dangerous Imperial Japanese regime. Emperor Hirohito should have been hung on thr gallows like the despicable war criminal he was. The Unit 731 commander Hiroshi and his henchmen all should have been used just like h8s forces mistreated Chinese and Allied Prisoners, Hirohito should have been hung on the gallows along with all the Japanese/ Korean war criminals, espically the Japanese Army and Naval Military Police, who are a disgrace to my profession!
This is why channels that tell stories like this are so important. We must never forget to take the full measure of atrocities committed by a nation during wartime. Particularly one such as Japan that only teaches the dropping of the atomic bombs to their school children & nothing else. Entire generations of Japanese have no clue of the horrors their nation was responsible for in WWI & WWII.
The Japanese fought without honour, and were defeated by superior adversaries. They might not teach their descendents of their crimes, but the rest of the world will not forget.
I'm a Canadian living in Japan. I remember one time talking with a Japanese friend and noting that it was interesting that our grandparents where enemies, and yet here we are as friends in Japan. She got all confused. "What?! Japan was never enemies with Canada!" People really don't learn much about WW2 in Japan.
@user-dd5iy4un9omy ass they were already warmongering in china,korea and soviet border the reason they attacked pearl harbour was because america put an oil embargo on japan.
@user-dd5iy4un9oyeah if that didn't happen Japan would be just another hermit kingdom like North Korea until some stronger countries would eventually do what Perry do
My grandfather was in the Anglia Regiment, but luckily was too young to go to Singapore. I often wondered if there had been any interactions between German & Japanese PoWs (rare as they were). I found that there was at least one camp in the US where they'd been held alongside each other in different compounds. The Germans apparently mocked the Japanese.
The USA droped the atomic bombs on Japan because they knew that statistics of an American & allied kill numbers from a land invasion. How would American mothers & wives respond when they found out we had a secret weapon that could have brought an early conclusion to the war and did not use it. Also, we wanted to see how effective they would be....I learned this from my high school history teacher.
If anyone wonders: This atrocities came to light as the Australians interrogated a sailor that served on Akikaze and was transferred to another ship. The captain of Akikaze died in an Air Attack along with around 30 crewmembers in 1943 but the ship was good to go soon after. Akikaze sank from Torpedos in 1944. Sadly it died a honorable death though as it wasn't targeted but threw itself into the torpedo volley to safe an Aircraft carrier. It sank with all hands but all other ships escaped. Source: German Wikipedia Page of Akikaze. Sidenote: Wikipedia does mention the massacre but no word of any babies. It says everyone was shot except a 5yr old who was thrown overboard alive.
This is not merely history as the events illicit a very real emotional response in the present. While nothing can be done to change the past we have a choice about the future. Thanks Mark, this is important information that would otherwise be lost to most people forever.
Dr Felton, did you change your intro music? The Music at the beginning of this video threw me off haha. Hopefully you haven’t replaced the classic Mark Felton tune. Great video as usual 👏🏻
Thirty years ago I knew a German-born man here in Las Vegas who lived in the Philippines during World War 2. Despite his German citizenship, he spent the war in an internment camp and told me many harrowing stories of his time there. Of course, he lived to tell the tale. Hitler gained nothing by declaring war on America after Pearl Harbor. It's likely the US would have been drawn into the European war anyway, but the Japanese were exceedingly poor allies.
Continued to allow the shipment of war goods in Vladivostok and didn’t press home their Indian Ocean attacks to seal off the ports in Iran and through the Suez. Poor allies indeed. And there’s probably much to say on how the Germans actually viewed them, racially.
Yes and many in the German high command as well as others in their ideology department warned their own government about the asian threat and making Japan an ally. The asians were seen by some Germans as a threat because 1) the spread and origins of communism 2) their superior race ideology 3) their military aptitude 4) their future understanding of math and science and putting them in competition with a superior white race.
I'm German, but I never heard of this incident. It is clear that the fleet command didn't want their destruction of the mission to be known by anyone, especially the German government. Otherwise it could have severely damaged the diplomatic relations between the two countries. Though it was a very harsh decision and one can only be sorry for the civilians who were killed and also for the soldiers who had to carry out that despisable order.
I guess pointing out the real character of the Japanese hurts feelings. Again: Japanese soldiers were less than human. They raped, mutilated and massacred European women wherever possible. But it’s ok. They don’t do that anymore. They only have an entire genre of porn based on slobbering Japanese men sexually assaulting white women. No big deal.
An interesting piece of cloaked nazi apologism. No soldier is forced to carry out an illegal order, least of all a war crime. They might be punished, and in this case the punishment may well have been execution alongside the prisoners, but the fact remains that all men must obey the dictates of their conscience. If compulsion is to be held up as a defence then confession and submission to punishment are the only remaining moral route.
And to think that Japan has never really owned up to any of the many atrocities it committed. Instead, it uses the tragedy of Hiroshima to show itself as a victim as opposed to a perpetrator.
Every time I am pained by the dropping of the Atom Bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, I quickly remember that Japan in WWII had a bloodthirsty army that needed to be neutralized. Honestly I find myself thanking Uncle Sam for the "drop."
And yet, while the Japanese navy was essentially destroyed, the Japanese army was NOT neutralised. At the time of surrender the vast majority of it was intact in mainland China, SouthEast Asia, and Indonesia. A huge logistical effort had to be undertaken from September 1945 through 1947 to repatriate over 6 million Japanese military personnel. Much of the army wanted to continue to fight, and only reluctantly obeyed the Emperor's decision to surrender.
They got what they deserved through and through and whoever doesn't agree probly lost someone to them. 🤷🏻♂️ Like sorry not sorry both of us today know it shouldn't have had to come to that today. Both of us being American and Japanese.
How anyone can harm a helpless child and leave it to such a cruel and painful death is way beyond me. Its unfathomable and whoever does so deserves a fate much much worse than the most painful death imaginable. Human beings can be such hideous monsters sometimes.
With all the hype of their officers' sword swinging abilities, one would think swords would be used like the contest mentioned in the book "the Rape of Nanking". The officer's just wanted to over complicate things.
@@XxBloggs I assume you mean “over the entirety of this channels existence he only deviated from his notorious theme ONCE” is that what “many time” means?
I will never understand how can a man be so obidient to kill a baby because you were ordered to. What is so precious about your own life that you would do it instead of refusing - even at risk to your own life if you disobey? What are these people made of?
It's hard to understand why the Japanese didn't suffer the same kind of judgement as the Germans after WW2. Not to belittle the Nazi's behaviour, but the Japanese carried out some utterly barbaric acts without qualms and largely escaped punishment after the war. The fact that the crew of this ship died shortly after doesn't really mitigate the orders that came down from on high, people who quite likely lived out the post-war era in some comfort and felt no remorse.
If Dr. Felton has covered this subject I apologize, but would be very interested in learning about the treatment of American and allied POWs by the Chinese communists during the Korean War.
Japanese marines also murdered Germans at the Manila German Club in February 1945, along with an estimated few hundred Filipinos in that place alone, among several massacres of the Battle of Manila.
That was only because the Soviets - the other party in WW2 after Germany and Japan to commit mass murder became an enemy and Japan like Germany had to be build up to bulwark against that threat. In Germany the secret service was run by ex-Nazis, first head of the EU was a former Nazi and the first secretary general of NATO was a former Nazi and the health service in Germany was also run by Nazi doctors etc. Many Nazi mass murderers received SS pensions and even became mayors of small towns. Why? Because neither the Germans nor the Japanese wanted to police their own and of course the USSR became an existential threat and these people had to be roped in. If USSR was a civilised country, them more German and Japanese war criminals would have been punished.
@@peterc.1419 Walter Hallstein wasn't a Nazi he never had a political membership and first secretary general of NATO was Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay was a British politician, diplomat and general in the British Indian Army. So everything you just said here was a lie. You do know the internet exists right?
@@drakegod84 Hallstein was a member of several nominally Nazi professional organizations,[g][19] but he was not a member of the Nazi Party or of the SA.[1] He is reputed to have rejected Nazi ideology[20][10] and to have kept his distance from the Nazis.[6] There was opposition from Nazi officials to his proposed appointment, in 1941, as professor of law at the University of Frankfurt, but the academics pushed through his candidacy, and he soon advanced to become dean of the faculty.[21] So a collaborator and maybe even an enabler. He should not have been in such a high position. How do you "push through" and possibly more whitewashing. Many Germans whitewashed themselves after the war. All blamed on "Nazis" from space.
@@drakegod84 About 10% of BND recruits during the Cold War had previously served in the SS, the German news website Spiegel reports. That's the BBC but given the Spiegel that's probably a conservative number. Maybe try not to call someone else a liar. Hallstein advanced despite so called "opposition" and was a member of other "Nazi" organisations. Not everyone needed to be in the NSDAP and not everyone was. Maybe also try to think for yourself and obtain some sort of higher education. Walter Hallstein (17 November 1901 - 29 March 1982) was a German academic, diplomat and statesman who was the first president of the Commission of the European Economic Community and one of the founding fathers of the European Union.
@@peterc.1419Yeah, the Soviets rank higher when it comes to crimes against civilians. Though as typical with communists, chiefly against their own people.
