Japanese vs Germans

World War II was a terrible time in World History. When people think of World War II they most likely think of the Holocaust and the German death camps that many Jews and other people were killed in. They also know of Doctor Josef Mengele or the “Doctor of Death” and his horrible experiments on children. But many people do not know that the Japanese were just as ruthless as the Germans.

The Japanese were just as bad if not worse than the Germans. Many people have never heard of the Japanese version of the holocaust. The “Raping of Nanking” was a horrible event where hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians were tortured and killed.

The German holocaust was horrible. Millions of Jews and Gypsies forced into trains and then forced to walk miles upon miles to work and death camps. Many of these people marched all the way to these camps just to be put in a chamber and killed. Others were exposed to the horrible experiments of Doctor Josef Mengele (Doctor of Death.) The name explains it all; the doctor would put these people through horrible experiments eventually killing them all. Some of his experiments included taking twins and cutting them in half and sewing them together. Others dealt with injecting them with horrible drugs and chemicals to try to change physical appearance such as eye color. Some even included trying to perform sex changes on these people. Total number of deaths during the German Holocaust reaches nearly 11 million people.

Many people would say that there is no way that the Japanese could have been worst but I beg to differ. The Germans killed more people but the Japanese were all about pain and torture. During the “Raping of Nanking” Chinese people were forced and exposed to horrible things. Many of the females no matter what the age were raped and beaten by the Japanese. Pregnant women had their bellies cut open and have their babies ripped from their womb. Others were set on fire or taken and made to dig their own grave and then killed. Families endured the pain of being forced to rape each other. Sons raping their mothers and sisters and well as fathers being forced to rape their daughters. All of this was all for entertainment for the Japanese. Many of the witnesses that survived remember watching the Japanese soldiers smile while this occurred. People who were captured were sent to have experiments done by Doctor Shiro Ishii. He was worse than the German Doctor of Death. He experimented with the effects of biological weapons on patients or “Logs” (to make them sound less human.) They were also put in pressure chambers until their eyes would pop out of their head. When people found his work area they found human limbs and even an entire body cut in half in jars of formaldehyde. Japanese total number of deaths during “Raping of Nanking” is 300,000.

People would say that because the Germans killed more they were worse but I disagree. The Germans killed more but the Japanese made these people do horrible horrible things. Another question people might ask is how the Japanese people got away with it and the Germans didn’t. The answer, the United States Government.

Since the Japanese were doing experiments that involved biological warfare the United States wanted the results. They made a deal with the Japanese that they would cover it up in exchange for their results. This makes me incredibly mad because the Japanese should not have gotten away with this when what they were doing was in my opinion worse than Germans.