The mistreatment and stereotypes are still happening.

It worries me, as a Brit, that after defeating the Nazis in WWII (along with the rest of the allied forces, of course), we are now effectively being led by politicians with a very similar ideology, especially when it comes to immigration etc. The conservatives do not represent the whole of the British people.

I propose creating a church built around the teachings of St. Mr. Rogers.

i have lived in texas my whole life and i didn't know this even though i took texas history last year-

Ah the love of money the root of all evil.

The ending of the last sentence, ‘ abandoned.’ Pigeons are actually highly intelligent!

Ancient dad jokes!

Alot of people don't know this

History books are written by the winners, I'd love to see history through the loser's pov.

Not to mention overthrowing other democracies around the world. Read up on Iran.

There's a large lake somewhere under the permafrost in the middle of the continent. Who knows if there's any aquatic life still living in there or if there's any frozen over that is unique to that lake.

And now trump is trying to repeat all the worst parts

The last sentence.

Edison was an awful guy.

Yes. I have a degree in Irish Studies and this was brought up early and often throughout the course of my degree. It was overwhelming at times to read the individual stories and statements.

Never assume any limits to the depth of human depravity or stupidity

Columbus was a pr!ck, and all he brought were disease and misery.

Spam kills.

You forgot about simple mistranslation. There's a bunch of that too

And that whole baby in the Nile story was REALLY common among the "important" people.

We don't despise the Germans any more than we despise the Japanese. Neither Nazi Germany nor Imperial Japan survived past 1945.

i would say we praise Germany for their current society and technological advances as well

You know this stuff still goes on in other countries, right? But Time changes and new generations have new ideas. During WWII in germany if you didn't act like you supported hitler you would disappear. So not all germans; not all japanese. America's atrocity is valuing guns more than children

Not a damn competition. As a Chinese person, they were BOTH atrocious. But it’s the Nazi not the Germans. There’s a difference. Also, the Japanese guys who did all these horrible stuff to us are dead now. All of them are dead. Fortunately

We could also add into this debate what the UK government and the USA government did with zero repercussions. The UK used POWs as slave labour in the UK, the USA built internment camps for Japanese US citizens, many of whom had over 100 years of US descent. Slavery has been around since humans decided that other humans were "less than", most of them were the victims of a losing side in war. Many nations' leaders chose to use their people as currency to appease a foe or to prevent colonization. Slavery is not truly about colour, it's about who dominated who thousands of years ago, before modern religion. The Roman Empire enslaved millions of people across the world from mainland Europe to North Africa to Scandinavia. The much maligned British Empire is barely 300 years old. The French, Dutch, Spanish, German and Austrian nations colonised countries around the world. History is destined to repeat for as long as humans think we are the superior species.

P.S. We, that is, Americans do not in 2023 "despise the Germans." Why you assert this is puzzling.

Neither does the mass murder of 10 million Congolese by King Leopold ll of Belgium, what some have called the “The Hidden or Forgotten Holocaust”.

also to the korean people. the women were scribbled on with tattoo pens

Not to mention before the war, their other mass murder in Nanking.

china and the u.s. committed atrocities too

Wow this thread hit some nerves!

Japanese warriors were horrible people.

I just recently found out about the history of Sakhalin Island and what the Japanese did to the Korean and native people there. The Russian half of the island wasn't a bright spot either.

they both should be held accountable. Although every likes Mercedes, VW and BMW

Evil is very much a contest between two or more trying out for a spot on that team.

Not true at all. Japanese atrocities are still remembered by the people of the nations they conquered (before their WW2 defeat). Ask any Chinese. This caption was written with a clear Western / European bias.

It's kind of a toss up as to who created more atrocities, Germany or Japan. Japan was just at it longer in China, Korea and elsewhere.

Yes, and Japanese government does not allow such facts to be taught in their schools. I have been appalled with young Japanese I have met with so little knowledge of negative Japanese history. On the other hand, I am so disappointed with many young Americans on how little they "remember" about the US history that they should have been fought

This is a pretty ignorant statement. I've been studying war, particular the first and second World Wars, for over 40 years, and the Japanese committed some of the most horrific atrocities imaginable during WW2, against anyone not "pure" Japanese. And against living men and women, civilians and captured soldiers. There's the blatant experimentation on living being that rivaled the worst of Mengele's known experiments--vivisection was horribly common in secret labs in secret locations, and one thing not widely known (or known at all) is that captured Allied soldiers were also taken to these places and subjected to the same experimentation as persons of other nations: to this day, many Japanese consider anyone not of "pure" blood (absolutely no dilution by non-Japanese relations) to be inferior. But some of the worst stuff I came across were letters and reports referring to how Japanese soldiers and officers cut body parts off of LIVING POWs, to keep the meat fresh. So "MIA"?

Hey, right after the WWII the Germany as a nation, started to work on their way to redemption, the same as Japan (them just a few months later). It's not like people forgot what Japanese committed, Japan just rebuilt itself faster or more effectively. (Only 2 A-Bombs in comparison to whole Germany bombed and cauterized. They simply had a better new start, bastards.)

To counter your story, being an Asian living in Asia, and in one of the country attacked by the Japanese, I believe most Asian countries is very well aware of the Japanese occupation as we studied them during history lessons in high school. On the contrary, we only learnt about the Nazi at a later stage in life through documentaries and movies. So I would say the Japanese occupation indeed is very much made known across all ASEAN countries. We just simply look forward and don't hate them as what's past is past.

There is no "worse". All atrocities are equally terrible.

Oh but they do! never been to south Asia?

The sad part is stuff like unit 731 & Nanking didn't even make this list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides. (It is embarrassing how far down the list the US is...)

S**t happens during war times... no act is worst than the other - murder is murder. Japan didn't get much scrutiny from it since this country traded all its findings from the torture to america . You're talking about an insane amount of data which ironically was used to create medicines we use today.

To be clear we praise their society and technological advancements now. The same with the Germans. Nobody (except looney folk) are praising pre-WWII Germany or Japan.

Look up ‘The Rape of Nanking’ and also the work of Unit 731 - not pretty reading. The big difference between Japan and Germany is that Germany has fully acknowledged its wartime (and pre war) conduct while Japan has steadfastly refused to do so

A Leaf in the Storm, by Ling Yutang, is a novel ambiented in that period of China's history. At a certain point in the novel Ling halts the narration and addresses the reader directly in a sort of written third wall, to give his impression of the atrocities commited by the Japanese. It's heartbreaking.

"corraling jews into gas chambers" is a gross oversimplification of the horrors of Holocaust. You are not helping your case by downplaying other tragedies.

Yes, I am Chinese and I know what happened during WWII D:. The Nanjing Massacre especially.

The reason the Japanese got a pass as far as their medical experiments on prisoners were concerned, was that the leaders of the project defected to US and USSR. With paperwork. Truman and Stalin were sufficiently impressed.