Public domain World War II pictures

All three men pictured died as POWs of the Japanese.
Left: PFC Samuel Stenzler died of malaria on 26 May 1942 at O'Donnel POW Camp
Center: PFC Frank Spear died 19 July 1945. He was insane from starvation and beaten and tortured to death by...

All three men pictured died as POWs of the Japanese.
Left: PFC Samuel Stenzler died of malaria on 26 May 1942 at O'Donnel POW Camp
Center: PFC Frank Spear died 19 July 1945. He was insane from starvation and beaten and tortured to death by Lt Tetsutaro Kato at Tokyo Branch Camp #5 (Niigata)
Right: Looking upwards is Capt James Gallagher who was murdered on the Bataan Death March within a few days after this picture was taken.

yes, my grandma was a very smart, cultured lady. she was very keen on history and it cntrasted with the rest of my family , who are very rural people. i miss her cause i was her pet, LOL. but uncle lawrence stayed in europe after the war till 1951, and ...

yes, my grandma was a very smart, cultured lady. she was very keen on history and it cntrasted with the rest of my family , who are very rural people. i miss her cause i was her pet, LOL. but uncle lawrence stayed in europe after the war till 1951, and loved it.he and my dad both married european ladies. i think aunt helen came back with him from germany, but she died young, of cancer, and i never got to know her.but aside from my rambling, i was taught that germany was always known for its contributions to science and art, maybe thats why the americans and germans tried harder to treat each others pows better. they saw each other as just alike.i know lawrence said that french people often bad mouthed him over that very fact

Well, up until the Third Reich the Germans were known as the people of Philosophy, Reason and the Arts, not as the Fascists and Racists that their legacy seems to be today... And I didn't want to say there were NO movies about the Japanese War crimes,...

Well, up until the Third Reich the Germans were known as the people of Philosophy, Reason and the Arts, not as the Fascists and Racists that their legacy seems to be today... And I didn't want to say there were NO movies about the Japanese War crimes, but if you compare it to the ones about the German war crimes, even when you only reduce it to the Holocaust, they still fade in comparison.

"Bridge on the River Kwai"? "Empire of the Sun"? IIRC, the director of the latter was Spielberg, who's Jewish. I think you're correct on the latent racism, though. I've come across many Holocaust survivor testimonies claiming that one of the reasons the...

"Bridge on the River Kwai"? "Empire of the Sun"? IIRC, the director of the latter was Spielberg, who's Jewish. I think you're correct on the latent racism, though. I've come across many Holocaust survivor testimonies claiming that one of the reasons the victims never tried to flee or resist was that those were the GERMANS, and the Germans didn't do bad things.

Sherman24, there's two pretty simple reason why people tend to focus more on the German war crimes: 1. Persisting racism. The Germans are Europeans, which, in the eyes of the people, makes their savagery during WW2 all the more terrible. The Japanese on...

Sherman24, there's two pretty simple reason why people tend to focus more on the German war crimes: 1. Persisting racism. The Germans are Europeans, which, in the eyes of the people, makes their savagery during WW2 all the more terrible. The Japanese on the other hand weren't - and in many ways still aren't - considered equal to Europeans, which makes people shrug their crimes off as 'culture', etc. Even though many people only do it subconsciously, they still do. The second reason is the Holocaust, with its primarily Jewish victims. This obviously prompts other Jews to want to talk about that and make sure something like that never happens again. And since there are many very influential and powerful Jews in the American Media, they obviously create shows and movies about it. Add to that that the American media is currently the world's most dominant, and you have an explanation why you have so many movies and documentaries dealing with the German crimes against the Jews, but not with the ones against the German opposition, Catholics, Gypsies or Slavs. Not to speak of the abundant lack of movies about the Japanese War crimes, which the American soldiers most likely experienced more than the German crimes, which weren't aimed as directly against them.

that's just curel.

and people said Germans were bad....

yes awful, they also treated american civilians in internment camps badly, the japanese have such a long noble history before the war and to just become savage was shocking

Those of you who say the Americans are evil for saving milloions of lives by dropping Atomic bombs on the Japs...just remember Pearl Harbor, The rape of Nanking and every other place they took over, the Bataan death march, the overt evilness of their...

Those of you who say the Americans are evil for saving milloions of lives by dropping Atomic bombs on the Japs...just remember Pearl Harbor, The rape of Nanking and every other place they took over, the Bataan death march, the overt evilness of their entire military machine....the atom bombs were the most humane way to end the war and save Millions of lives.....

The Death March was just the beginning of horrendous years of captivity, so many who survived the March died later on of innumerable diseases and simply starvation, or brutality of the guards.