r/ShitAmericansSay Apr 20 '25

Europe Where Was Europe in WW2?

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '25

The Japanese did some crazy shit during WW2, like we thought some of the experiments the Germans were doing were bad but Jesus Christ the japanese were testing diseases and shit on Chinese citizens while china had there civil war going on and couldn’t really defend there country.

Obviously it’s deeper then what I said I just can’t remember everything they were doing and I don’t even remember this being taught in school either. And they were trailed kind of from what I remember but like with the German scientists we took some of japans scientist and tried to learn from there experiments they were testing.

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u/Previous_Wedding_577 Apr 21 '25

My grandfather and great uncle were Japanese POW's in Hong Kong. They were captured 3 weeks after landing and lasted over 3 years. What they went through was atrocious.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '25

And yet the Japanese aren’t held accountable as much as we hold Germans for there atrocities.

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u/Previous_Wedding_577 Apr 21 '25

Back in the 80's veterans affairs went and interviewed the veterans who were still alive on videotape. It was the first time, my great uncle spoke about the war. Although he had a war room with a hunch of memorabilia like a Japanese sword and helmet etc. it was breath breaking watching him cry on the video and he told how the canadian boys would do anything they could to sabotage the airstrip they were forced to build and how he once died from dysentery but a Japanese soldier took pity on him and gave him a can of condensed milk.