UNFORGIVABLE ACTIONS Japanese Wartime Atrocities and the Holocaust JAPANESE HORRORS BUSHIDO Code of the Warrior Dishonorable to suffer the humiliation of surrender Fight to the death or kill yourself If not, you are less than human and deserve no mercy JAPANESE WAY OF THINKING Uchi – Inside Everything you are responsible for Family and country Soto – Outside Everything for which you have no responsibility Foreigners Racism – the Aryans of Asia similar to German racial ideas EMPEROR WORSHIP Die for the emperor if required of you ALL THAT LEADS TO… Rape of Nanking Dec 1937 – Feb 1938 300,000 civilians killed after violent scenes of rape and torture Bataan Death March Forced march of American and Filipino POWS 16,000 of 67,000 dead in 3 days Unit 731 Bio-warfare experimentation 10,000 dead in trials, 200,000 Chinese killed with results VIVISECTION – the practice of performing operations on live animals fro the purpose of experimentation or scientific research Comfort Women 200,000 Koreans raped dozens of times a day JAPANESE ATROCITIES GERMAN ATROCITIES EUGENICS Eu- - well, genes – born Aryan myth From Social Darwinism DIVISIONS OF RACE TO HITLER Aryan (Germanic) – Culture creating Middle (Non-German) – Culture Maintaining Jews – Culture Destroying Untermenschen (subhuman) – undesirable elements that need to be eliminated Gypsies = , Jehovah Witnesses = , Homosexuals = , those deemed “work shy” = , Habitual Criminals = , Political Prisoners = ARYANISM ON DISPLAY 1935 – German Max Schmeling beats Joe Louis in boxing Hitler vindicated 1936 – Cleveland’s Jesse Owens shatters Olympic records at Berlin games 1933 – BOYCOTT OF JEWISH GOODS Hitler now in power blames the Jews for the loss of WWI, Treaty of Versailles, and the Depressions Organizes Boycott of Jewish goods NUREMBURG LAWS - 1935 Jews lose citizenship, can’t get education, medical care, have phones, or marry non-Jews Forced to wear Star of David KRISTALLNACHT – 7 NOVEMBER 1938 Herschel Grynszpan shoots Ernst Vom Rath Nazis blow up event, encourage popular uprisings 1,500 synagogues and 7,000 businesses destroyed 100s dead, 30,000 arrested MANY JEWS WHO CAN LEAVE THE RESPONSE OF DEMOCRACIES Many hurting from the Depression and restrict Jewish immigration from Europe Jews who cannot leave are the victims of the dictators Picture: Jewish child dying in Warsaw ghetto THE FINAL SOLUTION - 1939 Einsatzgruppen Killing Squads Emotionally difficult after a time for the killers and inefficient One of the reasons the Germans will move toward ghettos, concentration camps, and death camps ANOTHER MISTAKE BY HITLER Many in Soviet Union originally greet Hitler as liberator from Einsatzgruppen cause Soviets to resist more and support Stalin DEATH CAMPS – 1941 Kill mass quantities in gas chambers using Zyklon – B gas GAS CHAMBER AUSCHWITZ 1.1-1.6 million killed Buchenwald Labor camp and medical experiment center WHO DIED? 6,000,000 Jews 6,000,000 Others Homosexuals Gypsies Communists Catholics Slavs Mentally and physically handicapped NAZI DEATH CAMPS “The memory of starved, dazed men, who dropped their eyes and heads when we looked at them through the chain -link fence, in the same manner that a beaten, mistreated dog would cringe, leaves feelings that cannot be described and will never be forgotten. The impact of seeing those people behind that fence left me saying, only to myself, ‘Now I know why I’m here.’” – Richard Winters