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

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The Battan Death March

The Japanese were merciless

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I had a family member survive this. In 5th grade I had to do a history report on anything I wanted in WWII.

I did it on the Bataan death March. Somewhere I have a recording of him talking to me about what he and others went thru on that March.

The Mongol invasions of Japan in 1274 and 1281 taught the Japanese people some very hard lessons about foreign rule.

Japs pushed nails through prisoner's testicles

Germans put little children into sacks and fed American POWs raw potatoes

This paragraph alone proves how fricked up the Japanese truly were:

In China, the Japanese waged ruthless biological warfare against Chinese civilians and soldiers. Japanese aviators sprayed fleas carrying plague germs over metropolitan areas, creating bubonic plague epidemics.  Japanese soldiers used flasks of disease-causing microbes, which included cholera, dysentery, typhoid, anthrax and paratyphoid, to contaminate rivers, wells, reservoirs and houses; mixed food with deadly bacteria to infect hungry Chinese civilians; and even passed out chocolate filled with anthrax bacteria to the local children.

Stuff like that served ZERO militarian purpose and was only intended to cause mass death and chaos for shits and giggles.

The Japanese did horrific things that didn't serve to advance their occupation or colonial expansion at all, they just wanted to watch their enemies' people suffer and die. The Nazis did this with the Jews and other "undesirables", but they often left the innocent people that occupied the land alone.

The Japanese simply went scorched earth and killed and burned everything they encountered, no matter who they were. The Nazis were fricked up and did their fair share of murdering, raping, pillaging, and looting, but they had instances where they left the locals alive or at least took them as prisoners.

And I say this as a Polish Jew whose family was 90% wiped out by the Nazis

Japanese and it's not close.

Nearly 50% of American POWs died in the hands of the Japanese.

Same for the North Koreans during the Korean War.

Vietnam? About 13%.

Germany? 1%.

The average German soldier was just a normal soldier that had nothing to do with the holocaust.

The average Japanese soldier was a sadistic motherfricker raised from birth to fight total war and his honor meant more than his life.

That's what I gathered from both of my grandfather's, one who served on the European front and the other who turned 17 on the island of Peleliu with the old breed.

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Drove an Avalon until he was 98.

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Kind of surprising, a lot of WW2 vets particularly from the Pacific theater and I’d imagine definitely ones that were survivors of the death march would refuse to drive a Japanese vehicle.

Japs hands down !

The Japanese and it isn’t close. My Dad was only 7 when the war ended but he heard enough stories from older friends and family members that served that he absolutely hates Japs. Anyone that doubts this needs to go read up on the Bataan death March.

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Kind of surprising, a lot of WW2 vets particularly from the Pacific theater and I’d imagine definitely ones that were survivors of the death march would refuse to drive a Japanese vehicle.

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Hey Killer, my Pops was a WWII Pacific combat veteran, we had the first Toyota in our Zip Code.