'It may be pointless to try to establish which World War Two Axis aggressor, Germany or Japan, was the more brutal to the peoples it victimised. The Germans killed six million Jews and 20 million Russians [i.e. Soviet citizens]; the Japanese slaughtered as many as 30 million Filipinos, Malays, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Indonesians and Burmese, at least 23 million of them ethnic Chinese. Both nations looted the countries they conquered on a monumental scale, though Japan plundered more, over a longer period, than the Nazis. Both conquerors enslaved millions and exploited them as forced labourers — and, in the case of the Japanese, as [forced] prostitutes for front-line troops. If you were a Nazi prisoner of war from Britain, America, Australia, New Zealand or Canada (but not Russia) you faced a 4% chance of not surviving the war; [by comparison] the death rate for Allied POWs held by the Japanese was nearly 30%.'
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This is why i thank the Americans fro dropping the bomb, it saved more lives than it killed. Can you imagine invading Japan?, millions killed taking it, and millions more lost trying to defend it. If you remember Okinawa, the Japanese kille dthemselves rather than surrendr to the Allies because they were brainwashed into believing they would be raped and put into slavery by the US.
And when allies take Japan, USSR would defiantly want their peice of the action and take some of Japan for a communist state, if you think Commusnisim would never happen in JApan, their were supporters lots of them until MAcAurthur fixed em up.
Iam not saing the allies didn't have war crimes, they did...but the bombings of Hiroshima nd Nagasaki weren't two of them.
"Historian Mitsuyoshi Himeta reports that a "Three Alls Policy" (Sankō Sakusen) was implemented in China from 1942 to 1945 and was in itself responsible for the deaths of "more than 2.7 million" Chinese civilians. This scorched earth strategy, sanctioned by Hirohito himself, directed Japanese forces to "Kill All, Burn All, and Loot All."
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