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2011-06-22 -Obits-

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Posted by Anonymoose 2011-06-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 An Aussie doctor who survived that death march and the camps after... helped me a lot when I got hurt in the early 60s.... in the late 60s he committed suicide as the pain from his WW-II tortures finally got too much for him.....
Those guys went through the valley of the shadow and deep into hell.

Posted by Water Modem 2011-06-22 01:08|| 2011-06-22 01:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Back on the 13th we lost another one.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-06-22 08:05|| 2011-06-22 08:05|| Front Page Top

#3 It really gets me sometimes that Japan gets a pass on the atrocities they committed prior to and during WWII. This is just the best documented because of the number survivors that can tell the stories. POWs were used as slave labor, human experiments, and in a few cases food by the Imperial army. RIP BUT NEVER EVER FORGET!

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2011-06-22 12:42|| 2011-06-22 12:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Note that the 'trials' in the Far East followed less stringent standards than Nuremberg and we hung a good number of the principles who we caught. Japan rebuilding didn't really begin as it was happening in Germany till the North Koreans invaded the South in 1950 at which time it was thought a rebuilt Japan was a better fall back position in case things didn't turn out for the better on the peninsula.

The biggest difference is that the Germans faced up to what they had done in the post-war years, the Japanese just ignored it. Of course the Germans have gone rather soft militarily (which is probably a good thing after 200 years + of conflict in Central Europe) while the Japanese really haven't, however keeping it well checked up to now. Given the rising return of Chinese territorial imperialism, that may not be such a bad thing either.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-06-22 17:12|| 2011-06-22 17:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Japan rebuilding didn't really begin as it was happening in Germany till the North Koreans invaded the South in 1950 at which time it was thought a rebuilt Japan was a better fall back position in case things didn't turn out for the better on the peninsula.

Sorta, the rebuilding started earlier, but rebuilding in Japan was from an even lower level than Germany. The Korean War gave a major shot in the arm to the Maritime trade in Japan, who were instrumental in supplying UN forces from very, very early in the fracas.

Posted by Goldies Every Damn Where 2011-06-22 18:05|| 2011-06-22 18:05|| Front Page Top

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