I don't know ...The guy just seems to write about a large selection of topics ranging from the holocaust to psychology to 2012.

Yeah, I can see you and understand your points there. I will do my best to, once again, articulate my opinions. I feel that the German war atrocities were almost purely a matter of "we must eradicate and/or treat these people like this, because we are their superiors". Were as the Japanese done it just to serve their own means. They don't do it out of contempt, just because it was part of business. I think the Burma-Thai railway is a good example. The Japanese didn't work those POWs to death because of any emotionally/racially moticated reasons, merely because they needed people to build a railway.

In contrast to this, when the Germans forced labour on their prisoners, it was largely to do with the whole "your inferior, you do the work" idea. So what I am trying to address is the motivations behind the war crimes, rather than how they were carried out. I hope that makes a little more sense in regards to my "emotionally devoid" concept.

How someone could cut someone up without anesthesia is beyond me.

I might have written americans too but in my defense I'll say that I wrote it from a racial standpoint: Asians and Europeans (Whites, be they from Europe or from the US/Canada/Australia/New Zealand/South Africa)

what tha... fuck japs, they are crazy as shit... (no offense if some japanese read this, just a inoffensive comment)

Alright dude. Yah I thought you may have meant that but whatever..just making sure.

I think many people are also failing to realize that many German scientists who were invloved in Nazi eugenics during the war were also let off the hook and continued to practice after the war. I think saying that Americans found the Jews more important is an exaggeration/assumption that should be avoided. Mengele was only one example.

In the grand scheme of things however, people remembered today as having suffered in WW2 aren't Russians, Americans, Germans, Japanese or Chinese: when people think WW2 atrocities they think jews because almost all of the focus of both rememberance and punishment of ''war crimes'' which didn't even exist when they were commited concern jews. The Nuremberg trials were much bigger in the media than those in Japan. In school this is blatant: only thing mentioned is maybe the total number of dead of WW2 AND six million jews.

We had a whole day devoted to saying Sorry to Aborigines over here.

I hated it. I haven't ever done anything to an Aborigine, why should I apologise?

Because Kevin Red said so.

http://www.myspace.com/unit731

I'm sure even the people who you say sorry to also find it stupid... It's over-the-top political correctness

Did you partake?
How do they react to something like that?

No, I did not do anything for it. I don't feel resposible for the acts of the past, and I don't know any Aborigines anyway.

Gee The_Beast_in_Black, you're such a racist homophobic right-wing Nazi.

If treating human beings as expendable tools does not qualify as contempt, then what does?

In any case, I think to characterize the bulk of the Japanese atrocities as detached and businesslike is inaccurate. Most of the abuse had little to do with railway-building or manual labor. The Japanese misbehavior towards conquered peoples consisted of things like gang raping females until their vaginas bled, forcing sons to rape their mothers or fathers their daughters at gunpoint, and cutting the fetuses from pregnant women with bayonets, among other things. Not emotionally devoid at all; lust and sadistic pleasure seem to be significant factors.

The "clinically detached" characterization might fit the scientists better, but that stems from the same basic attitude held by the raping knife-abortionists, which is simply that the victims are not really human beings and thus may be used for anything, whether labor, weapons testing, or simple amusement. And this of course is the same basic attitude held by the Nazis towards the Jews.

Okay, I concede. I obviously don't know what I'm talking about.

Would have been much better without all the dramatizations, things always seem less thought out and believable when you add in pathetic little fake videos, also, it's nice to know what photos are real, and what ones are just meant to "horrify" us.

We spent an entire section of my Pacific War course coving Unit 731. Pretty messed up stuff...what was even worse was that after WWII, instead of putting those involved on trial, we simply just took their research and left it at that (we didn't want the research to fall into the USSR's hands).

Another reason we didn't put them on trial is because we wanted to work out a deal with them to get some of the gold and riches they looted from China.

Can someone answer my question I asked earlier? How was this research supposed to lead to better biological weapons? I don't understand what discoveries they'd make about better biological weapons simply by testing them on humans...that seemed to be their main purpose.