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

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Just finished a book by a former B-29 pilot who said "Prisoner deaths in the German POW camps averaged 1.1%, but deaths in Japanese POW camps averaged 37%."

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That low prisoner death rate in German POW camps was for just western allied forces. The numbers for Soviet POW were far different. It’s estimated the Germans captured 5.7 million Red Army soldiers. Of that number 3.3 million died, putting the Soviet POW death rate a little under 60%.