We want to ignore the horrors, to forget them. I think it actually hastens their return. Better to remember and dwell upon it.

Worst current college grads say this and others are fake and quote vague US war crimes

Through much of human history, this was the norm.

@@demonprinces17 I have met Japanese tourists who have said it was wonderful that Japan and Australia have always been friends. That is very sad,

@@ManDuderGuy I keep hoping by keeping the memories alive similar events may be avoided in the future. Thank goodness for Mark Felton.

That last comment was not necessary. The Abombs were used to end the pacific front war without the massive casualties that would result from a home invasion of Japan, not because they were “Well used” on the Japanese people themselves. That’s pretty sociopathic

@@General_Rubenski For what they did to millions of innocent Chinese civilians, the nukes were a pretty tame solution in comparison to what they did. The nukes killed nowhere near that many civilians. The nukes were terrible, but at least they didn't involve catching babies on bayonets.

@@General_Rubenski very necessary, usually those who decried the use of nukes never had relatives suffer, killed or r*ped under imperial japan

Sadly a prison camp of American POW's ( from Superfortress Bombers and other forces) was also damaged . The few who survived were bayoneted to death for escaping

@@General_Rubenski - “well used” indeed. You conveniently excuse (ignore) Japanese atrocities against unarmed prisoners and millions of civilians.

I’m entirely with you. You’re not alone. I don’t know if that provides any comfort at all. I can only hope so. My great - uncle ( ‘ Sparrow Force ‘ , Portuguese Timor, AIF, was captured. ). I think that he went to his grave telling us, his family, very little of what be both experienced and witnessed. Whenever we caught glimpses of the lifelong welts and dreadful scars his back and shoulders seemed to be covered in ( I remember as a boy silently thinking that some of them looked like wounds that were caused by stabs, or scolding metal…I just bring myself to ask )…he used to laugh, brush it all aside, and say he’d taken an awful tumble off a bicycle as a lad.

my great grand father was too beheaded. a member of gullforce

In the early 80s I shared an office in London with a guy who had been in Sparrow force. He was one of the British 21st Light AA gunners. He was captured on East Timor after an overwhelming Japanese force landed, but he described the tough Australians he fought with and in particular a massed bayonet charge in which they wiped out a Japanese unit. After the controversial surrender order one of his mates was beheaded for trying to escape. My colleague was taken to Japan on the Dianichi Maru and worked in a coal mine at Fukuoka. In 1945 he heard the Nagasaki bomb, which he said saved the prisoners lives as the Japanese had told them they would be executed if the Allies tried to invade. He was a wonderful man whom I, as an eighteen year old, was quite in awe of. He told me quite a bit about his experiences which included horrific abuse but he held no grudge against the Japanese people in general and said he wished he could visit Japan before he died.

That’s brutal. My grandfather was in Britain fixing planes but his brother in law (my grandmothers brother) was in the South Pacific. He was in a group that trained the dogs and had his dog killed somewhere before the invasion of Iwo Jima, which rendered him so distraught he starved himself for 3 days until they agreed to send him to Iwo Jima to get payback (the rumor was suicide mission). He survived, but hearing stories like the ones above always remind me that so many more didn’t make it out so lucky. It’s truly moving hearing all this.

In the USA all proof of this has vanished because it offends the Japanese people esp tourists well they need to know the truth I know the people in Germany still have to bear the shame of someone still.

Also from Canada and my old man fought in Europe against Nazi Menace.

My uncle was frank edward Moore

Thanks.

Excellent comment.

I had 2 grandpa's in ww2, one a medic on the front lines with patton, and the other an anti tank artillery seargent and trained in explosives, who fought in the battle of the bulge. The stories and picture's of dead enemy soldier's have always stuck with me. My grandpa who was a medic help liberate dachau, and he said that he found it hard to believe that man could be as evil to treat other human's in such a sadistic way. He made us promise not to have his memorial marked with anything related to ww2. My mom considered it afterwards, but finally gave up when I was not for it. We are getting closer to the same scenario in this time. God bless.

Yes, it does happen at planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics around the world everyday, humanity for the most part looks the other way.

I almost forgot the brutality of what they did until I was reminded of Room 731 and how MacArthur let that thing out of any responsibilty

Many, if not all the Japanese perpetrators, would eventually find that they had gained a new and devoted friend, who would come to watch over them. In their quietest moments, when they thought that they were safely asleep, years and sometimes decades later, their devoted friend PTSD would quietly wake them and silently remind them of their little "joke" in the jungle. Japanese, or anyone else's chauvinism, does not and cannot trump karma. Acting insanely, will surely bring it's friends along to witness.

And yet they want to play victim still even though on what they did they act like they don't know what you're talking about even with proof.

The Japanese were brutes.

@@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 … brutal j apps

Yeah, I was going to make the same post 🤬

As an Australian was very disturbing to hear and makes my blood boil. My Grandfather and a number of Great Uncles fought in PNG (one of which was shot on the Kokoda trail). They never went into detail about their war time experiences. But now I understand their lifelong hatred of the Japanese. I have to censor my comments as they would invariably mean I would be banned from this platform.

This is a lesson about asiatic race

@@1000niggawatt Not the bravery of the Dutch and Australian forces?

So ... why are we friends with this culture again ????? Globalisation is such a wonderful thing, must allow the rich to become richer ..

@@RemusKingOfRome You would prefer UK, US, Australians and Japanese to still be enemies after 75+ years? Where do you draw the line and move on?

@@RemusKingOfRome The Japanese were our allies in WW1. As were the Italians. The world is a mixed up crazy place.

I AM COMPLETELY UNAWARE of the Pretence above and have watched and read quite a lot of Media about WW2 in Europe and the Pacific over Fifty Years. Your Claim is ABSOLUTELY SPURIOUS!! Most Historians will write about the Japanese Atrocities, as Most were conducted by the Japanese. This of Course does not absolve the Americans or any other IMPERIALISTS of Their Crimes, as the Japanese Were. The Main Complaint in discussing with colleagues is not Lack of Awareness of Japans Atrocities among Westerners and Non-Japanese Asians. ITS THE TOTAL IGNORANCE OF THESE ATROCITIES AMONG THE JAPANESE THEMSELVES!!!!! The Dutch, The French, The Japanese, The British nd The Americans have all Committed Atrocities in the Pacific Asia Region. Some of nthe above all Over the World. THE PROBLEM IS IMPERIALISM!!!

@@TA-eo2ww I think he is saying that the Americans did not do all of the fighting in the Pacific and he is happy that the other nations are being covered. I don't think he is saying Americans committed all the war crimes, that is my interpretation of his comment anyway. Is is definitely forgotten that the Australians carried the ball throughout most of 1942 as the primary fighting force under MacArthur's control. The US had to spool up after Pearl Harbour but from 1943 onwards the US manpower and industry pretty much dominated.

@@TA-eo2ww Ah, an overuse of capitals. A sure sign of a well panned argument. That being said, what the he'll are you going on about you loon?

I am Expressing the Fact that the Allied War Effort in the Pacific, though Mostly American, had other important contributers in the Achievement of the Defeat of Japan. China, New Zealand, Australia, Phillipines, Vietnam, India , Britain and in the lastcouple of weeks Even Russia Played an important role. My Reference was specifically to "War Crimes" as Committed by all Parties, And in the Pacific War, Particularly Japanese. There is a sense on the part of "Nationalities" to think they are being picked on when War Crimes committed by their Countrymen are mentioned. Certain facts have to be made clear, the Japanese were not the only to Commit Atrocities, But they were overwhelmingly the Culprits in the Pacific. Though Japanese Crimes were Particularly Sadistic, the root cause of the crimes comitted by all the Culprits, was IMPERIALISM.

They would not have surrendered if they knew such a fate awated them

And Dutch...

And Japanese atrocities!

@@jamwri6718 i am finding myself needing to forgive many times over

@@crunchytheclown9694 me too but I feel the perpetrators have be contrite before starting that process 🙏

Had a reputation of not taking prisoners in WW1

Any Japanese prisoners were too many except for interrogation.

Some 45 years ago I worked in an electronics factory. There was a storeman who I learnt had been in the infantry in the islands during WWII. My uncles had served in the RAAF in Europe. He told me that apart from grenade fishing that he had seen some horrible things during his service. Apparently after witnessing some atrocities (no details) they spent their spare time filing their bullets which they then used to some effect.

@@wilshirewarrior2783 that’s literally the exact type of barbarism described in the video

My grandfather fought at Tarakan (Borneo). He said as much in his war memoir. Strange to think that he was technically a war criminal.

Actually Adelaide is in South Australia and over 1,600 miles from Perth, in Western Australia. did you have such a good time that you had no idea where you were? 🤠

Probably because of what the Dutch were doing there themselves wasn't very pretty either. Truly the darkest pages of Dutch history in the 1900s.

@@tHaH4x0r no that is told nowadays but this part I never heard from. But almost everything else was known even in the 1900s if you dug deep enough.

This story does not conform to the modern narrative and is therefore proscribed by the Ministry of Truth.

'Lest we forget

@@tHaH4x0r darker than executing prisoners?

I need to visit. My wife is Indonesian. I tell her about how Australia liberated Borneo. our countries should be best mates. Shame we are not more intertwined..

Why isn’t it easy to listen to ? He’s quite clear and concise.

@@VictoryOrValhalla14 because he is describing the extremely graphic nature of the Australian Soldiers death. It has nothing to do with his clear articulation.

@@douglawrence4066 grow up

I did, I work for a living. Obviously you are living in Mom’s basement….. trolling KZfaq comments…..

@@douglawrence4066 really ? Because instead of honoring these men you turn it around to make this about you. It’s quite pathetic and clearly shows you lack any maturity or any experience closely related.

Well about time

Well, they escaped human justice during this life. They have long since passed into the next, however, where justice is complete and inescapable.

There was an Australian film made about the trials of some of the Japanese leaders post war called Blood Oath that may be of interest

@@keithgillie5902 that sounds great thanks for telling me.

That's unfortunate. The kid had nothing to do with that.

Damn, your stepdad was so traumatized by what he probably did and saw that he became a racist. That’s sad

@@General_Rubenski You most likely would too, were you him.

@@ManDuderGuy I hope not, if my great grandfather could kill Japanese and comeback without being racist, then I hope I could too

Sorry to hear that

Think was not to inflame the japenense population

The Japanese we're kings of blaming everyone else post war , there was a lack of proof as the Japanese destroyed all records and in general stuck to their stories .

I was very close to my WW2 veteran Grandfather on my fathers side here in Australia. My Grandfather on my mothers side (2/26 Bn AIF) lost his life as a Japanese POW on the Burma railway. I heard the stories about the Japanese growing into young adulthood from Dad's dad and his friends into my young adult years until we lost them through old age. They only ever referred to the Japanese they fought as 'Nips' or 'Japs' - not real politically correct for people nowdays but that's how they spoke. They actually felt pretty satisfied that justice had been done as well as was possible. If you research it, you will find that when sufficient evidence was obtained, Japanese war criminals were frequently tried by the allies and often executed at the end of the war. More often than not, perpetrators could not be brought to trial as they had been killed in action themselves or had committed ritual suicide through Harakiri when Japan lost the war. Sometimes we forget how fanatically committed many Japanese were. It was not death that they feared, but ignominy and defeat.

the Japanese mostly died in combat before they could be brought to justice

@@julianraiders1112 nope, lots were in Japan, the ones we were afraid to set off

He did a very important job for the POW's . We appreciate his efforts after the war stopped

@@Rusty_Gold85 They all did a marvelous job. Lest We Forget… 🙏

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Same here. My old man’sHatred against Germans after they committed loooooot of atrocities was fully justified. His Canadian side took no German prisoner and I understand why. He hated them till his death. He refused to use any German made stuffs. He fought them in Europe.

My father was in New Guinea. Frank Moore

The USA is NOT the only country on earth. Others too would have been involved in the invasion of Japan. Joseph did you hear the nationality of the soldiers on Ambon. Open you ears and eyes.

@@stevetaylor8298 so they saved hundreds of thousands of Australian, New Zealand, Indian, and other allies lives as well. Seems like another reason to use thd bomb...

@@stevetaylor8298 I never said it would be only Americans?

@@stevetaylor8298 Wow you need to relax. He wasn’t discrediting the other allies that would’ve been involved in the invasion of Japan. So get that massive chip off your shoulder and play nice.

My father was also training for operation Olympic, the invasion of Japan. After the surrender he was part of the occupation forces. He told me stories about how fortified the country was how prepared they were for the invasion. Every cross road, every small town everywhere you looked were fortifications , and they were ready to defend to the last Man woman and child. Yes the bombs were justified and thank God they were used!

General Monty Exactly, but look at the bloody idiots freely giving up their freedoms to their governments daily. What the bloody hell did our veterans fight and die for, absolutely nothing. People today haven't had to fight for a thing, everything has been easy. I think of the men that lied about their ages to enlist. That was the last great generation.

Yes freedom to white people

@@UnsungAces Race baiter.

@@bullhead900 he has a point tho, the dutch were only there to defend their colony🤷‍♂️

Even though our Australian government threw them under the bus. A government of traitors.

Don’t you mean he never fails to impress?

Should of taken the same mentality with thier surrender when atom bombs started falling...

The same mentality has been instilled into the CCP's PLA. So we know what's in the future.

In the "Greater Japanese Co-Prosperity Sphere", this was a minor clean up. Go read about what they did in China, especially Nanking.

This should be broadcasted they don't mind doing that to us and the allies

It's why some WW2 vets who served in the Pacific would possess a life long hatred of the Japanese people. Lord Mountbatten among them so despised the Japanese that even as his funeral, the Japanese were barred from sending a representative. In fact Mountbatten wanted to have the entire Japanese royal family executed after the war.

I still think that they owe us a national apology for all there war crimes.

Personally I would have liked to see more Japanese war criminals charged for their atrocities and fewer Japanese civilians incinerated.

@@corvusboreus2072 I agree on the atrocity charges. But getting the Japanese to surrender was something 21st century people don't understand from the comfort of their twitter palaces. This video reminds us just how utterly brutal and fanatical the Japanese were. Hence the need for the bombs.

@@corvusboreus2072 I’m sure the projected million men that would’ve been lost taking part in the invasion of Japan would disagree with you. Operation Olympic would probably be in the bloodiest battle of the second world war and probably the costliest battle of World War II. Dropping of those two bombs shocked the Japanese high command especially the emperor which made their use justified.

No it wasn't appropriate, only 2??? More like 22 would have been more appropriate,

I have read that hanging as a punishment was viewed by Japanese soldiers as disgraceful and much worse than beheading. I hope so. The stories of "experiments" performed on subject nationalities and the drafting of civilians as "comfort women", well- I only wish I had not heard that these things are not as well known in Japan as in the rest of the world. I myself am very happy that the Atomic bombs were used, because my father might well have been conning a landing craft on one or more Japanese beaches, and he might well have never returned. He did tell a glorious story of VJ day with he and other officer candidates in their dress whites tapping a keg then taking turns chugging one and then running and sliding down a long grassy slope, over and over.

Neither did the Allied.

@@jansix4287 your name says it all. January 6th the date of the infamous erection! Wow war is hell some atrocities occurred on both sides of the equation however the Japanese were especially cruel to anybody they captured and deserved the minor retribution they received from the allies.

@@thelonerick2344 And your name says, you killed your Morty. 🪦

@@jansix4287 who the hell is Morty?

@@jansix4287 Yes we did. Unlike the brutal fascists, we have owned the things that we have done. Thanks be to God that Germany and Japan were defeated during the war, and the Soviets later.

That sounds decent to be honest

From what i was told by my father and other family members who were there and in the war, it was Menzies who more than willingly fell in line, wanting to remain resident in London and participate in the British War Cabinet and it took Curtain to become Prime Minister to standup to Churchill and bring our troops home.

I mean the same could be said of raymond westerling, and the numerous higher ups that supported his actions.

Yes, with sentences commuted by US and McArthur. Traitors.

I can never think about or analyze the bombings of Japan, including both atomic bombs, without considering the full context of the war and, in particular, the Japanese brutal and inhumane treatment of civilians and POWs.

@@michaelinhouston9086 honestly the more I find out about what they did, the more I believe the bombings should have continued until Japan and Japanese were just antique terms of a place and people who used to be.

@@troystaunton254 but japanese gurls are hot

Yes, I agree. Blame that on the US and especially McArthur.

It wasn’t so much being woefully unprepared. As much as it was already being deeply involved in a resource and man power draining conflict. On top of which unlike the German and later Japanese people. Most allied nations were extremely reluctant to face another war. Why repeat what happened 20 years earlier. Frankly they should have driven all the way to Warsaw in 1918. Go well beyond Berlin, go through Austria. But hindsight is 20/20

Underprepared. Incompetent. Arrogant. Prejudiced. And overrun with breathtaking ferocious ugly professional stupidity.

@@douglasjones2570 I'd also add breathtakingly selfish careerism among senior officers and politicians to that list. The attendant personal rivalries it brought badly hampered effective decision making. That along with all of what you described unnecessarily cost the lives of thousands of ordinary Australians who 'answered the call' for no tactical or strategic gain whatsoever. That fact should also never be forgotten.

@@danrobinson8380 Thank you. You know better than I. Happy New Year!

It makes me want to Nuke them again.

@@lifeontheX Yeah.... snowflakes have a tendency to forget the history and like to condemn Truman's choice. But with a little knowledge of what we were dealing with between the Nazis and the Japanese the use of Atomic weapons was more then justified in bringing WW2 to an end.

What a strange thing to say, as most of those who perished from the atomic weapons were civilians, which had no say in the war or what happened thousands of km away from where they lived.

I don't think two were enough.

@@lifeontheX Generalizing an entire population, and dehumanizing them to the point where you think it is okay to throw atomic weapons on civilians, how are you any better than those that dehumanized and massacred those unfortunate souls on Ambon? Ironically enough the 'revenge' you want to perform on them, is the exact one the Japanese used for this massacre. Shame on you.

If you have not check out Time Ghost History, War Against Humanity Series.

@@shawnr771 - Thanks Shawn, I will - T.R.

Japanese 'atonement' is greatly overstated. Far-right Japanese chauvinism is not just alive and well, it pervades the entire political establishment, to a degree that would be front-page scandal, every other day, if it occurred in Germany, say. Look into Nippon Kaigi, if you haven't. An organisation with 40 000+ members that officially believes: "Japan should be applauded for liberating much of East Asia from Western colonial powers; that the 1946-1948 Tokyo War Crimes tribunals were illegitimate; and that killings by Imperial Japanese troops during the 1937 Nanjing Massacre were exaggerated or fabricated". The group...denies that Japan forced the "comfort women" during World War II. Nippon Kaigi is opposed to feminism, LGBT rights, and the 1999 Gender Equality Law." And we're not talking about some random 40 000 fringe 'losers' here. The recently departed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is a member, and so were 15 of his 18 cabinet ministers (!), a recent Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, etc. Abe remains butthurt that his grandad, aka 'The Monster of the Showa Era', a Class A war criminal who oversaw the enslavement and death of hundreds of thousands in China, was punished at all after the war (3 years in jail, followed by the Prime Ministership!). It 'hardened his nationalist views', he says. The Education ministry has been engaged for some time now in 'cleaning up' the history textbooks, to favour patriotic spirit. This includes more emphasis on the terrible suffering inflicted on the Japanese (such as stories written by children who experienced the atomic bombings), and de-emphasising or deleting the unfortunate nastiness. (on a most-recent note, the farthest-right fringe parties just had the biggest gains in the recent election, and they're dedicated to throwing off some of the 'foreign, un-Japanese restrictions' imposed via the country's post-war constitution). Full-blooded Japanese revisionist nationalism isn't gone at all; it's more accurately biding its time.

@@GK-yi4xv thank you for informing the world.

Japanese people now days don’t think they did anything wrong.

Sometimes hatred can consume you. Ask Canadians who faced fanatics German SS. Both side went ALL OUT. My old man had nightmares. He fought in Europe.

I think Bomber Harris's "sowing the wind" is probably the most appropriate statement made during the war.

Yes. But the Allies had years to watch the Jap military at work murdering, raping in a gluttony of gore against military and civilians in China. I'm just get flabbergasted the Allied forces had no idea what would happen if they surrendered.

It was an old-fashioned view. Not that hard to understand. Japan did not grow out of its ancient culture in that area. Ancient History has plenty of examples and even fewer witnesses