re: Who do you consider to be more brutal in WW2, the Germans or the Japanese?

Japanese. They did some gruesome shite. Germans were evil but far more impersonal and mechanical

Japanese were more brutal.

Germans are just better engineers

Japs were mean little fu*kers, now they're feminized.

japanese were brutal, and it's not even close

Japanese.

Both my Dad and an uncle were POW’s during WW2. My Dad in Europe, my uncle in Burma. My Dad would never talk about the experience but led a normal life afterwards in my view. My uncle lived out his days in an asylum.

Japanese.

The Pacific Theater was a meat-grinder. And while the Germans engaged in atrocities against the Jews, actual combat in the Pacific had more of a savage racial component to it.

It’s not really a question. As horrible as the Nazis were, the Japanese disturbed them and they were pretty open about the Japanese disturbing them. Auschwitz was horrible, but Unit 731 was as if everyone at Auschwitz was Mengele. Numerous guards in Auschwitz went out of their way to save Jews and other targets from themselves. Often a 15 year old would show up, the officer would say he was 17 and needed work, the Jewish teen would interrupt him and say he was 15, and the guard would look them firm in the eye and tell them they were 17. Only years later would hundreds of them realize that these officers saved their lives and risked their own for it. 15 meant the gas chambers, 17 meant the work camps.

You didn’t have anyone in Unit 731 like that. It was just all around worse.

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A literal Nazi thought the Japanese were too brutal.

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Even when the Japanese visited Berlin on occasion, the Nazi officers were still disturbed by them. Heydrich was the exception rather than the rule. All the Japanese officers were as horrible as Heydrich though.

From a pure savagery standpoint, the Japanese were unsurpassed. The Germans were not much better. And once they reached Polish and German soil, the Russians were not much better.

The main difference in the Russians from the Japs and a Germans is while later practiced primarily Wholesale slaughter, the Russian soldier was far more interested in rape, especially once they reached Germany. Didn’t matter if she was 8 years old or 80 years old, if she was German, chances are she was going to get raped, probably repeatedly. It’s estimated Russian soldiers raped over 2 million, possibly far more, in the closing months of the war. I read one account where a group of Red Army soldiers made and old man hold a kerosene lamp up so they could see the faces of his elderly wife, middle aged daughter, and teenage granddaughter as each was raped repeatedly by the soldiers. In another account a German mother who was already hemorrhaging from hours of repeatedly being raped offered to let the soldiers use her mouth to keep the soldiers from turning on her young daughter (I think she was like 10 or 11). The soldiers both forced the German mother to perform oral on them and still raped the little girl.