re: What fascinates you concerning WW2?

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Japan attached the US. WTF were they thinking? WTH was thier endgame?

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To control the entire Pacific rim. To do it they needed mineral deposits and oil supplies which they did not have in Japan. In order to keep control they had to bluff the US with a first strike in order to actually keep them OUT of the war in the Pacific.
Didn't work and four years later we turned Hiroshima and Nagasaki into real-life Big Green Eggs.
Lesson learned.

That said, I was always horrified by the atrocities that the Nazi's (not Germans) perpetrated on the Jews as well as those Japan was guilty of towards prisoners both military and civilian alike.

If you haven't read "Unbroken", I highly recommend it.