Modern Times by Paul Johnson

Author:Paul Johnson [Johnson, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Crónica, Historia
Publisher: ePubLibre
Published: 1991-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

… the crimes of the Japanese accused were far less heinous, varied and extensive than those of the Germans accused at Nuremberg [but] torture, murder, rape and other cruelties of the most barbarous character were practised on such a vast scale and on such a common pattern that the only conclusion possible was that those atrocities were either secretly ordered or wilfully permitted by the Japanese government or its members, or by the leaders of the Armed Forces.[107]

David James, the British interpreter who visited the main camps after the surrender, noted the collapse of absolute moral values among officers of the post-1920s intakes, who had been ‘thoroughly drilled in Kodo and state Shinto’ and who were responsible for the routine cruelties: ‘they had the same killing instincts in and out of action …. For that reason there was that common pattern of atrocity which appeared to surprise the Tribunal sitting in Tokyo.’ The regime did not possess concentration camps as such: at the most it had only four hundred political prisoners of its own. But its POW camps were run on the same economic principles as Nazi and Soviet slave-camps. After visiting them James reported in September 1945:

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.