Cannibal Army - Japanese Soldiers Abused & Ate Indian POWs
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- The horrific story of the abuse of Indian prisoner-of-war by the Japanese, including the organised cannibalism of Indian soldiers by Japanese on the island of Borneo in 1945.
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It's like the atrocities have atrocities.
@@TheRedneckPreppy Good analogy!
Definitely made for Homer Simpson meme.
Has this guy done allied war crimes yet?
@@Roboticpycotic The winning side gets to write history.
My father was a senior NCO with the 14th Army in Burma, and served with distinction alongside a Sikh and Gurkha unit. He never spoke much of his time out there, but he did verify that he had witnessed Japanese cannibalism. To his dying day he could not ever tolerate anything Japanese, but always held his Indian colleagues in the highest esteem..
There are certain actions you can't forgive.
@@Canadianvoice so did the Japanese bring you democracy, rule of law, the end of the despicable act of "suttee", the ability to read and write English, did the English eat you.???? No.? I didn't think so.!! Look beyond your irrational prejudices before sagging off the English, and recognise the barbarity exhibited by Indians to their own kind during "partition", millions of your countrymen killed each other over differing religion of all things.
@@Canadianvoice boo hoo nigga lol
These angl0regime propagandists are excellent in creating fake stories and spreading lies and misinformation as to create division among people and the country. The policy of "DIVIDE AND RULE" is well known to the world.
@@Canadianvoice These angl0regime propagandists are excellent in creating fake stories and spreading lies and misinformation as to create division among people and the country. The policy of "DIVIDE AND RULE" is well known to the world..
Used to work in a hospital ward in England. An elderly man had dementia and unfortunately he thought he was back in a Japanese prisoner camp and absolutely terrified. 70 years later that was still haunting him.
Propaganda by Chinese and Russian agents is a method of creating a hypothetical enemy, instilling false consciousness based on false information in readers and audiences.
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China’s and Korea’s attempts to spread propaganda and disinformation emphasize speed over quality.
Nobel prize, scientists:
25 Japanese,
2 Taiwanese,
3 Chinese,
0 Korean.
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Ouff man i can't think of something more horrible than this, i hope he didn't have to endure this for too long
@@whatever_12 what do you mean by something more horrible..
@@marbomangu5023low iq.
@@whatever_12Regardless we should not have been in the Far East. The Japanese were especially brutal to the Chinese but didn't think they were special
5 stage of grief in japan.
1. Denial
2. Denial
3. Denial
4. Denial
5. Denial
Eventually they will get out of Denial, its just that its the LDP’s fault (the ruling party of Japan since 1955)
It’s hard to own up to war crimes. South Korea and America are still in denial on all the innocent civilians they executed during the Korean War.
@case8987 we can see now typical red herrin. And even dont know about fact. Maybe he is confused japanese and koreans.. or Vietnamese? Korean War is very well known cases the government confessed and apologized to victims of war...
@@case8987what about the gulf wars?
Or the whole guantanamo thing?
It's honestly not even really a moralisation. I'm sure every army ever has committed atrocities.
But they produce the best cars ,no one can deny that
I am from Bangladesh. My grandfather joined the indian army, trained with british soldiers and was deployed in Myanmar(Burma). After the war he came back to Bangladesh and never really spoke about the war. He was traumatized for sure and for that reason no one pressured him to know what had happened during his service. He did a lot of charity work, built a couple of school and gave away most of his wealth to the poor people until his death. He died in 1990. I wish I could know about the WW2 from him.
Which part of Bangladesh are you from?
@@abhishekghosh4384were bengali dont discriminate against non-bengali speaker
Your grandfather name?
I think most of our grandparents didn't talk about it, he did say that he never knew that hell on earth could be so true and he couldn't understand what humans could do to each other.
Your Grandfather sounds like an exemplary human being who was deeply injured by his experiences. May he rest in well deserved Peace.
Much respect to the Indian servicemen❤️🇨🇦
I have always believed the Sikh with some of the greatest fighting forces ever put on Earth ! 🗽 this Marine would have been proud to stood side-by-side with any of them
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@@rickieoakes5267 I respect Sikhs but I would vouch for Gorkhas as the most dangerous force anyday...the Gorkhas decimated Japanese in Burma and in the Kargil war when Sikh and Naga regiments failed
@@rangoman1815 the Gurkhas and Sikhs are warriors throughout.
@@aharansandhu6120 exactly bro...
My Grandfather was a highly decorated Merrill's Marauder in WW2. He spoke about these and many other Japanese atrocities for many years. It's interesting to hear someone else verifying everything he said. People forget.
It's not that people forget, it's just the atrocities by the Japanese are more well documented in regional languages which limits accessibility by the western people.
They were not forgotten... they are just white washed by the western imperialist
@@RapalaHampala +150 social credits
The impact is lost on 3rd Generations as they never feel the pain war brings ( apart from the odd occasion ).
Please make a detailed researched video on this on the true story at jall ian wala bagh, india where brutisHers paid gratitude to indians for helping in 2 world wars & winning 31 out of 182 victoria crosses
ruclips.net/video/2LaoamJ3vbs/видео.html
Pakistani here, my grandfather fought in the British army in the RAMC (Royal Army Medical Corps) in WW2. Unfortunately he passed away before I was born, but my dad tells me the stories he brought back from war. Fortunately my grandfather was never a pow but his brother was (my great uncle) and he was heavily tortured by the Japanese for years and when he finally returned home he was never the same
Who's luke Thompson?
Probably he converted into Cristianity@@unitedkingdomoffiveeyes9765
@@unitedkingdomoffiveeyes9765 you don't know luke thompson?
@unitedkingdomoffiveeyes9765 yeah wtf?
Ngga why u lying
My Uncle Jack was a prisoner of the Japanese and made to work on the Burma Railway. He never spoke, as far as I know, about his experiences but was a skin-and-bone man who was often ill and hospitalised due to recurring malaria. When the Queen met the Emperor he - who always appeared the mildest of men - was incandescent with anger and my mother told me he had an enduring hatred of the Japanese. After seeing your videos, I can understand his reaction.
My great uncle was wounded, by a Japanese sniper while deployed to the Pacifc Thetre (Philipines, I think). I wonder if he habored similar sentiments. I think I was still in grade school when he passed away.
@Sarcastic Doge Different times and a different generation of people.
@Sarcastic Doge
That sentence made me want to kill myself
He continued to get malaria his entire life?
@@dspsblyuth The parasite that causes it stays in your body for the rest of your life, flaring up every so often. Our headmaster at school served in the jungles of Burma in the Second World War, even 40 odd years later, in the late 1970s, he still got ill with recurring fevers.
These brave men should never be forgotten. Thank you for this.
Legends all of them
They have been forgotten. Especially in India.
We all get forgotten eventually have lots of mates who died on tours who no one but the families and friends ever know about as recent as 2006/2008/2009/2014 not to mention the suicides
We all just become statistics in the politicians Game
_Its the Journey not the destination_
@@ifv2089 Every morning, I honor the fallen, and every night before bedding down, the same is done.
As an Indian , I find it amazing to know about the men of my country . Thank you Dr. Felton , thank you so much . Appreciate your work .
sure indian soldiers in ww1 and ww2 worked bravely and for the most part even under severe duress, murder torture ect most refused to collaborate with the japanese or germans. they were volunteers who had sworn allegiance to the british, no matter what their personal political opinions they were loyal to their employers.
its a shame they were not more appropriately rewarded after the war.
@@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367 In return they chopped region too, teachings say quaIity over quantity, been most steady from oldest to major power, don’t blindly support terr0r, comm!e or capitaIs.
@@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367 Had one of the longest history with and eyed, by US too.
@@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367 but u britishers used us indians u supported radical islamic terrorism against india u and america tried to sanction us when we were librating goa . u and usa were about to attack india during bangladesh libration war .
This is nothing but slanderous British propaganda:
HERE IS THE TRUTH.
The Indians who surrendered to the Japanese after the fall of Singapore later followed the clarion call of Subhas Bose to fight for India's freedom rather than serve the British, and formed the core of Independent India's first army - The Indian National Army.
The INA fought in NE India and after the British tried to persecute the officers of the INA in a FAKE TRIAL at the Red Fort in Delhi, the massive revolt in the Indian public and the British Indian armed forces led the British to realise that Indian forces could not be trusted and it would be best to leave India soon.
These captured soldiers who formed the INA and Subhas Bose who is revered as NETAJI by billions of Indians got India her freedom.
Stop parroting garrulous and factually wrong history.
As a person with Indian ancestors who is unfortunately living in Japan, I thank you for this video. I’ll show it to my Japanese wife as almost all Japanese people here know NOTHING about what the Japanese did in WW2. They’re quick to point out the atrocities of the nazis and Americans who bombed them, but that’s all they know, seriously. Thank you again for this video.
Yeah remove their ignorance of their past
Watch out she don’t eat you next !
Nazis were on the same side as the Japanese
Hitler granted them honorary aryan status
@@adambutt6244 Lool
Unfortunately? Why are you living there if you don't like it?
This is a true story. During my childhood I read about a story in Bengali language where it was written that Indians were captured and then had their heads chopped off by the Japanese. Then they used to cook the bodies. So once they ate a man who already had poisoned himself aware of his imminent fate and thus when the Japanese platoon ate him, they were all dead due to poison.
I read about that story too
But in hindi
Not lying , what is this joke story ,
Poetic justice
@@paritoshdaurwal9484 name of the story please
@@subhayandey807 don't remember the title of the story
But I read it in the supplementary newspaper when I was kid.
My Dad was a Marine who was at Guadalcanal, New Britain and Peleliu where he was wounded and sent back to the states to recover. In the seventies my Mom thought it would be a good idea if Dad bought a small pick up truck in order to save gas and at the time the only companies that made them were Japanese. Dad wasn't too keen on the idea but they stopped by a Toyota dealership to take a look. Dad got in one and a second later got out and slammed the door, looked at Mom and just said "let get out of here". When they got outside Mom asked him what was wrong and all he said was "it smells like a Jap". Needless to say they didn't buy the truck.
Cool story, bro. Meanwhile, MILLIONS of Americans have bought Toyota autos and today it is the biggest car producer in the world.
@@thadtuiol1717 Yeah, because those people don't care about what happened to Korean/Filipino/Indian/Chinese civilians.
But thanks for showing what side you're on!
Typical ignoramous of a yank
My High School English Teacher, a WW II, Pacific Theater combat vet also hated the Japanese, for the same reasons as your dad.
@@Psyxic_Crimes He said his father fought against the Japanese. I’m sure if you had fought against them you would’ve had similar views after seeing what things they did, but here you are acting like you have a moral high ground using today’s standards doing the old typical American routine.
Every German person I met, he will openly discuss the war crimes the Nazi has committed and recognize the past. For most Japanese, they deny on just about any accusations that are known as facts. And they cry out as victim of the atomic bombs. I grew up listening to personal stories shared by my grandma's generation. I saw fear in their eyes when the word Japanese came up. Atrocities happened everywhere around Shanghai way even before the army arrived Nanking. When the army arrived at the city of kaixin, they rounded up government officials and tortured them with the infamous Japanese swords. Hands and feet were chopped off and victims were only wishing they could be decapitated quickly. Most gang rapes ended up with the victim being stabbed to death or an open gut from the sword. The soldiers burned everything including some of the most historical libraries with books in them. Our family lost everything to the invading Japanese. I stumbled upon a picture at one time. A Chinese POW seemed to have been kept as a livestock. All the muscles have been peeled off from his left leg. He was alive and in pain. I wonder if he was being eaten bit by bit judging from the image. Thank you again Mark Felton. I really appreciate these videos being created and made accessible to anywhere in the world. People have the right to know what had happened.
Indians and Japanese fought for Hitler
@@Atma_Rama700 Most arabs suffered under the ottoman rule and most don't look up to the ottoman empire nor its usurper caliphs
its illegal in japan to write japanese atrocities in their school history books. they do not learn this in school and are not allowed to.
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@naamloos992oh absolutely, they cry victim as well saying that the other European powers oppressed them/exploited them. Meanwhile they stay real silent about the hundreds of thousands of Assyrians, Greeks, Armenians that died in the creation of the Turkish Republic, let alone the atrocities committed against Kurdish, and all the peoples of the Balkans throughout the Ottoman Empire, let alone the colonisation of North Africa, Arabia and all the oppression/exploitation that followed that too. It’s fucking ridiculous how many ppl r now celebrating Turkey for making some political statement forgetting that THEY colonised the Arabic world. And they continue their legacy with their proxy wars, especially in Libya and Syria
My Uncle was captured on Bataan. He endured living Hell. Was sent to Japan on the Hell Ships. Survived the War, but my Mom said he was never the same.
Nice fictional story but evidence for your claims are missing , just an empty comment on censored youtube , everybody knows if you accuse someone you need strong evidences , not just mouth to mouth propaganda , they filmed a lot and toke pictures even during ww2 but i don't see aynthing close to that nonsense . This is typical imperialist propaganda .
Absolutely subhuman and disgusting behavior. Never let stories such as this be forgotten...
It’s been going on forever
Absolutely
🔳 Read the description titled "American mutilation of Japanese war dead" on Wikipedia ❢❢❢
@@azurecliff8709 one thing to disgrace the enemy, another to become a monster
@@your_being_led_by_your_nose truly all such stories must be preserved; the barbarism of the past cannot be glossed over with a lack of remorse
My Grandfather served in the US Army in WW2 and had an unapologetic hatred for the Japanese until he died. As a kid I never understood it, however after learning more about Japanese atrocities I understood. Miss my grandpa, he was a kind, honest and brave man.
You should be proud of your grandpa . Love from an indian pagan . 🙏🕉️
My grandfather fought alongside Gurkhas in WWII and stayed friends with some of them long after. Some of them fought Japanese and their stories were bizzare and horrific.
@@abyyy490 ay apne aap ko pagan kyu bula rahe ho thik toh ho ham Hindu kuch pagan vagan nai ay
Great respect for your grandfather. I recall seeing a documentary about Japanese and American WWII veterans having reunions, with interviews. One American veteran explained what he experienced and witnessed would never allow his hatred for the former Japanese enemies to wane.
What do you understand? It seems you understood nothing. It's not the Japanese, it's not the Germans, the Chinese, the Americans, the Soviets, the whites, the blacks etc. It's humanity. War is hell. Horrible people can be found anywhere and everywhere. Horrible circumstances that breed these people can also be found anywhere and everywhere. We must constantly be vary...
Thanks Mark, for shining a light into this dark corner of modern history. I was aware of some of this with US prisoners, but this was news to me, although it was not surprising. I find it very interesting how many Japanese war criminals and multinational Japanese corporations had no accountability for their actions whatsoever, and simply re-entered society/business after the war. It seems there has been a very strong movement in Japan to pretend these things never happened. This was enabled in part, by the US’s eagerness for Japanese help in the Far East in staving off communist aggression. I’m not anti-Japanese, but it strikes me as bizarre and tragic that so many war criminals simply ‘walked away’ after the war.
Well, the outcomes of Tokyo and the Nuremberg trials were very different for obvious reasons.
This was enabled in part, by the US’s eagerness for Japanese help in the Far East in staving off communist aggression.-> Wrong. The United States wanted data mainly from its Unit 731 (IJA biological and chemical weapons research) on human experiments. Hence most were not trialled and executed as war criminals. 2nd, by letting their Emperor continue to sit on the throne. Japan surrendered unconditionally and brought under US's wing as a protectorate till this day. 3rd, it is a rather open secret, least in SE Asia that the Jap gov whitewashed its history during ww2. Not many modern Japanese knows about this as it was never taught in their education system.
The most striking of these examples is about the Japanese commander of Unit 731. Truly criminal behaviour by the US
@@dakiler2028 In war, nobody's hands are clean. No good or evil, only winners and losers. To be fair, it's just human nature.
@@macrickcorrect--- It happens even in todays times. Anybody out there believe the US invasion of Iraq was to 'instill democracy'? Exactly. In the end the poor end up with the short end of the stick
too bad 'communist aggression' was a con
My dad, who fought against these Japanese cannibal troops, told me about these Japanese cannibal soldiers.
This article verified his story.
I remember seeing a story on Japanese television about a former Japanese soldier and his wife confronting former officers about the atrocities committed by them (he even tried to kick one of them but unfortunately his wife got in the way and was severely injured). He was brave enough to talk about the cannibalism. I never heard about the Indians but the officers wanted them to eat only brown skinned people because they thought that they would never be known. White prisoners were seldom eaten as the officers would face war crimes. At the peak of the starvation, officers pretended to take their own sick men to "Hospitals" but really killed them and cannibalized. I forget the man's name but he was hated in Japan for calling out Hirohito who he deemed complicit in all of the atrocities and caring more about the royal jewels than his own people.
I didn't teach History. I was a science teacher but was an avid history buff. When I mentioned the cannibalism by the Japanese, I was told by the social studies teacher that was all propaganda and that I should stick to science. Thank you Dr. Felton for vindicating my statement. Hey guys, love your comments too! - T.R.
It wasn't Hirohito though, it was Tojo who was the mastermind and architect of 99% of the looniness of WWII Japan. There are some good docu's about it on here.
@@alexcarter8807 No that’s a stupid theory propagated by America that Hirohito was innocent. He knew everything and was a war criminal emperor.
@@alexcarter8807 read Hirohito by Edward Behr. I think you'll change you mind. I did.
yeah the japanese totally worried about war crimes during a war they thought they would win or wouldn't live to see the end of. sure. btw the jippos were known to eat white people too. don't know why people like you even in these situations come up with this racist nonsense.
you can google the chichijima incident. the Japanese may have been raving loonies, but they weren't racist in being cannibals. they ate all equally. only you people make such a horrifying thing like this into a weird racist projection of yourself
Good to see you are not afraid to discuss these sort of topic Mark.
Mark is a real man.
YET HE DOESN’T HAVE THE STONES TO COVER REAL 21ST CENTURY COMMIE/NAZI COVID FREEDOM KILLING REALITY. LOOK AT CANADA RIGHT NOW 🤦♂️
@@hellbillygoebig9446 That's your job now.
@@hellbillygoebig9446 We in Canada are just fine thank you very much.
@@canuckprogressive.3435 What a sad statement. Canada would be a laughing stock if it wasn't so sad what you've allowed to happen.
Agree with you Mathew. I've written multiple comments to cover Indian servicemen in WW1 and WW2. My father & grandfather having served in both.
I remember watching an astounding "World In Action" or similar 1970's doc on a Japanese soldier who served in New Guinea . He said that eating different coloured "longpig" was not unusual but after a failed attempt at deserting, even though the war was now over, his friends got caught & weren't seen again.
After realizing that he'd eaten his mates, he wasn't at all happy & the doc caught him catching up with his former superiors 25 years later & literally going banzai on them at their doorsteps....!
I wish I could find this, can anyone help?
I was fortunate enough to work in Papua New Guinea and talked with a man from Lae that told me of the “sorcery” and “Saguma” (Cannibalism). Of course there are many tribes and over 800 languages and dialects and very few practiced cannibalism. It was fascinating hearing of stories about the Japanese occupation the North and how brave tribal warriors were during that period. Not sure if the Japanese were doing it mainly for starvation purposes or, like some officers, practiced cannibalism for other reasons similar to “Saguma”.
Was it 'Fires on the Plain' - 1959? I'd link the IMBD but people get funny about clicking links.
@@thewaywardgrape3838
I remember it being in colour and at least 20 years after the war, judging by the characters' ages.
Thanks for the suggestion, will try to find it...
@@rickanderton4406 Further digging, the documentary/film could be:
'Japanese Devils'.
'Horror in the east'.
'The Emperors Naked Army March'.
I once read of the crew of a sailing ship that sunk in the mid 1800's who after days/weeks in the lifeboat, ate the cabin boy...In extreme circumstances, people are capable of anything.
Many years ago my grandmother had a Sikh gentleman as her new neighbour and my parents were a bit concerned as she had some opinions that were let's just say totally wrong but more common at that time than we like to admit. Anyway my father went to visit and was amazed to find them both sitting on a bench in her garden drinking tea, they went on to become firm friends and would even do their gardens together, him mowing grass whilst she did the flowers. It all stemmed from the fact that he was held prisoner by the Japanese in Ww2 just like her husband my late grandad.
Anyway not only were they great company for each other but I believe their friendship was the major factor in her becoming more enlightened & goes to show you are never too old to learn
Thank you for sharing your story.
Old racist lady gets over her hatred for Indians by bonding over common hate for Japanese... I fukin love it, grandparents are great
@@chucknorris277 Old racist lady has more class and decency than you. Grow up.
@@chucknorris277 thank you for this lmao 🤣
@Alfred Einstein why are you white?
Sikh family here, with relatives who served in British/Indian regiments during WW2. I was brought up aware of these atrocities. Later, my father was an officer in the Australian army. I was brought up in (and have always lived in) Australia, and it the wider Australian community has always seemed to me to be oblivious to these stories and this history.
Thank you for sharing.
Gurm Sekhon.
Not all Australians are oblivious to the actions of the Japanese Imperial Army in WW2.
We appreciate the hardship and sacrifice of all the Pacific and South East Asian countries endured.
First by the Japanese invasion and then by the battles to drive the Japanese back to Japan and end the War. The Pacific War against Japan cost the Countries a huge loss of lives, both Civilian and military. Let alone the economic and food production losses.
I, for one, salute the efforts of the Indian and Nepali soldiers that fought with the Allies.
And the brave villagers that assisted the Allies and risked their lives and families by doing so.
Thanks
At the end of World War II, the Allies, including the United States and Great Britain, indiscriminately massacred approximately 500,000 Japanese citizens through air raids and atomic bombings. You see? The Anglo-American Allies are vicious perpetrators pretending to be victims.
★★★ The Japanese people have not forgotten the heinous atrocities committed by the Allied Powers ❢❢❢
Its your history. Now anyone else's.
@@azurecliff8709
Give it a rest Fascist Azure Cliff.
The USA and the allies didn't start the war that killed millions of people in Europe, Russia China, Manchuriia, Asia Pacific region. The Germans and Japanese did.
So F off DH
For example, in Ukraine under Stalin and in mainland China under Mao Zedong, severe famines caused tragedies that people eat human meat. Historically, these are very well known facts.
★★★ Very despicable Mark Felton is hiding these gruesome histories and spreading badmouth about Japan here.
Japanese till this day act they were the victims of WWII
As an Indian I cant even bear to listen... its too painful that humans can behave like this and knowing the victims maybe my own ancestors, something in my soul just died.
@@mverick5444 where are you from? ;)
@@husrebel494 India
@@mverick5444 Your IP says otherwise ;)
@@mverick5444 please don't test me boy.
@@husrebel494 Abe bewkoof praani hai tu
Whatever personal problems I have in my own life, the times whenever I stoop to feeling sorry for myself vanish when I realize there are many in the past and present who have suffered much much worse.
I will forever archive these episodes of Mark Felton for future reference and to inspire others.
Thank you Mark. You are an educator of the highest order.
True. I totally agree.
This video is a fake history. A true history is “American mutilation of Japanese war dead” on Wikipedia !!!
Try to read “American mutilation of Japanese war dead” on Wikipedia !!! 😫😫😨
Great video Mark, Thank you, As an Indian I have never really heard of my country's participation in WW2 mostly because the 1940s are overshadowed by the events that led to Independence, thanks for bringing light to this
Taken from the same article from timesofindia: Some 30,000 of 40,000 POWs joined the Japanese INA.
Google "Battle of Kohima"
@@cx3929 Miniscule number in comparison to the number of Indian troops who served and I'm sure many of those who chose the INA did so out of understandable needs to survive the brutal conditions.
@@montycasper4300 FACT = 30k of 40k is 3/4 of the force fighting in Malaya when the British surrendered and almost half the total number of 67,340 Indian POWs captured by the Japanese during the entire duration of WW2. While the death rates under Japanese rule for US POWs was >40%, Australia POWs was >35% and 20% for British POWs - They did not have that option or any option.
I always hear more about Indian troops than any other colonial troop from the British.
And when the Indians were having trouble, then it usually was some truly heavy fighting indeed.
You don't hear much if anything about them from Hollywood though.
Maybe that is why many people don't know?
Felton taught at the University of Essex before moving to China for nine years, where he taught at various locations including Shanghai University and Fudan University.[3][6] HA!
Awesome done Mark.... And thank you from Billion Indians to acknowledge the sweat and sacrifice of the Indian army.....
SWEAT HUH , SO THEIR BLOOD STILL GOING TO WASTE EVEN NOW. AND AS EXPECTED DONE BY THEIR OWN COUNTRY MEN STILL, IN THERE! LOLS 😆😆😂😂
Bhai this video is partly true . He is trying to whitewash British deeds. Japanis were brutal but it was Netaji who pursuade hitler and Japanis to release pow indians. So that they can fight with British for independence. And in war with British vs INA. 23k INA soilders died and this lead to revolt against british all over indian by indians Navy. And they left this country as british became weak.
🔴Try to read the description titled "American mutilation of Japanese war dead" on Wikipedia ❢❢❢ 😖
In 1966 I worked in Papua New Guinea through to 1981 & in that time I heard many hand me down stories from natives about cannibalism performed by the Japanese, then in 1975 I was posted to Wewak where the Japanese surrendered PNG, & it was here that I had an older native Sepik worker who told me that towards the end of the war, supplies weren’t getting through so there was a huge shortage of food for the Japanese troops.
My man told me that the Japanese would raid the native villages food gardens, & because there is a huge shortage of wild animals to hunt they resorted to kidnapping native women, killing them & cutting off their breasts & upper leg muscles & eating them.
When I questioned other villagers about this, they said, “ Japans man like to eat young teenage women & very young men too “
This too was kept hush hush by the military, but the natives never forgot.
I am just speechless 🤦
@@vivek27789
But it is logical.
Total war will always be brutal.
Just look at the current 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine. Putin just starting killing civilians because he’s being desperate.
This is horrendous, why was it never told until you have posted this. It makes me sick to my stomach.
Large numbers of Japanese soldiers were engaged in gardening, supplies were so poor on some islands.
Cannibalism was common in Papua... !!!
I lived in southern Japan, Saga Ken, Kyushu, from 1996 to 2001. During that time I became close with a retired US Navy vet who ran a bar, Jimmy's. Jimmy and I would often talk late night, and he would tell me of the old men, business men who had served in the Japanese army during 'The Great Pacific War'. These guys would come in and sip a drink, waiting for everyone else to leave. Jimmy would then close up and drink one on one with the customer. Perhaps they did this because they had figured out that Jimmy was a vet himself who served in the small boats during the war and had his own demons; they felt a kinship with him and talked to him openly about their horrific war experiences. I don't recall all the details, but a theme in their stories was that the Imperial soldiers became very adept at trussing a prisoner up and dragging him along with them through the jungle, slowly and carefully cutting pieces off of them but not killing them, so that their meat stayed fresh. These old men were disgusted by their own actions during the wars, which they had had to keep secret their whole lives. There was a reason many returning Japanese soldiers worked themselves to death after the war.
👹 Try to read “American mutilation of Japanese war dead” on Wikipedia !!!
Our Head Master at Secondary school was a prisoner of war under the Japanese in Burma. His back was hunched due to beatings and punishments. He used to supervise our class for one hour per week, during which he would just let us chat amongst ourselves, sitting and watching us for the whole hour, saying nothing.
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Nobel prize, scientists:
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Seems like a really nice guy
I had a teacher and a Parish priest who had been in the camps.
The priest had white scars all over his hands, and was very reserved. Didnt socialise at all.
The teacher was the fairest teacher l ever had, also very reserved and strict.
The torture they underwent had marked them both, but they both went onto have long meaningful lives.
Indian here, thanks for sharing such info, i wasnt aware of
Wow Japanese Atrocities were even worse than the Nazis. Thank you for bringing this to light
Think you miss spelled Germans there buddy 😉 Japan moved on from ww2 Germany never lefted it seemed
@@DUSTKILLL I wrote Nazi not German buddy. They both left I think they are much better countries now.
@@DUSTKILLL Have you ever visited germany?
@@alih6953 you don't understand what I meant. The German government at the time was Germany lol just like this was Japan. It's been 80 years can we all just agree not to separate factions
@@DUSTKILLL Germany was thoroughly de-nazified and has accounted for pretty much all its crimes to the point of excessive sackcloth and ashes, Japan on the hand was let of easy, few were convicted for their crimes, the remains of convicted war criminals are still 'honoured' at their national shrine and their education system is skewed to gloss over their actions in the 40's to the point where teachers who try and teach about what happened are fired.
There is absolutely NOTHING that would surprise me from the Japanese Imperial army.
My wife worked with a man whose ship was sunk and many of the crew were eaten by sharks. He was finally picked up by a Japanese ship and sent to a POW camp. He was almost starved to death and there was one guard who took pleasure in cruelty and abuse. On his 21st birthday this guard challenged him to a fight to the death. Despite being severely malnourished he overcame and killed him. The rest of the guards did nothing as it was a matter of honour. In later life after the war as a civilian he despised the Japanese and always crossed over the road whenever he saw anyone Japanese in the street. This story was told to my wife in the early 1970’s.
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@@azurecliff8709give it up. Comparing some post-mortem mutilation to severe abuse, murder, and cannibalism is ridiculous.
As well, incidents like this were generally retaliation for Japanese atrocities in the first place. And other cultures at least were honest about the fact that they'd committed such acts. Japanese culture has rarely accepted responsibility for crimes committed by its forces and people during and before the Second World War.
@@JamesPhiefferpretty much agree with everything you said.
@@JamesPhieffer I wonder why they have so much trouble taking responsability for their crimes, they hide them so well, japanese people nowadays barely remember anything they had to do with WWII, students say they barely touch on the subject at school. I've been digging into their history lately and I simply can't find this honor they're so proud of.
@@JamesPhiefferwell said, ppl will always retort ‘but Hiroshima & Nagasaki!’ or ‘what about Dresden?!’ its absolutely insulting to just cherry pick stuff like this when the full scale of Japanese and Nazi atrocities were so insanely large and widespread that these events pale in comparison. Mutilating soldiers after they’re dead compared to bayonetting babies, or mass scale rape and slaughter of entire cities, death marches and concentration camps and all sorts of shit, hell the Japanese were suspected to have been planning the mass execution of POW’s around the time the bomb dropped. The Allies are UPFRONT about all the mistakes and the crimes made, there’s entire movies about it stressing the tragedy, like that accidental bombing of this school, and when u read why it happened its so clear it was a mistake. It is miraculous how well most of the allies behaved in that war, considering that most wars atrocities take place on both side, but in this case the overwhelming crimes were done by the axis, and anyone who’s trying to bullshit their way around that is living a lie. Even if European crimes during colonisation were worse in aspects, in most countries none of it is hidden or suppressed (not to the degree of Japanese even), there’s libraries full of it, research programs/grants, university programs about it, the government actually funds the increased knowledge and awareness of their past crimes. Japan refused to do that, so does Turkey and Russia for that matter. Unfortunately it also means that by hiding those crimes they’ve made them disappear, and ppl believe them,
Thank u Dr Felton for bringing to light such a gory part of human history where the Imperial Army committed such barbaric acts of cannibalism against their POWs.
Now I understand better why so many nationals involved either directly or indirectly in the war hold that much grudges against the Japanese till this day.
ALSO thanks for highlighting the unknown aspects of the role played by the Indian solders in the war.
Thank you for this, Mark. You always manage to share something I don’t know about the war and it goes a long way. I especially appreciate the way you discuss war crimes and barbarism.
An old friend of mine is a World War II enthusiast who thinks he know everything there is about the war. I’ve tried many times to get him to check out your content but he refuses and thinks he’s too good for it. It’s his loss and that’s why he’s an old friend.
lol , did he know the contribution of other 'colonies' in war , or were he like hollywood only showing whites ? not against whites but thats what hollywood shows.
Hi Mark, my grandfather's brother was in the British army in a precursor Regiment to the modern day SAS, he fought the Japanese army in Burma towards the end of war. He personally witnessed a Japanese soldier cut flesh from the body of a dead American soldier and eat it raw. If you would like to know about him and what he witnessed, let me know.
You should speak up.
Can you tell the full story?
It's human version of Sushi for them. 🍣
Hi to everyone who has commented on my original post. Seems like there is some interest in my great uncle, so when I get to my laptop I will write up a detailed reply to you all. In the meantime, standby, over and out!
In order to understand why my uncle, Phillip, did what he did during World War Two, it is best to know more about his background before he joined the British Army in the mid 1930’s. In around 1910 he was born in Llanelli, a coal mining village in South Wales. Altogether, his parents had four children, three sons and a daughter. Phillip’s sister, Mae was the oldest and he was middle oldest of his two brothers, John and Davey. During this time in West Wales, 50% of people spoke Welsh and in rural areas this could rise to 75%. Phillip, his siblings and his parents spoke very little English as Welsh was their first language. By the time his sister was around 12 years old, their father died in a coal mining accident. Not long afterwards, their mother also died from illness and lack of health care. This meant that Phillip and his siblings were now homeless, and no other family could look after them. At this time in Britain, children and the destitute were sent to institutions known as workhouses. These places for the poor had reputations for degrading and very cruel treatment of both adults and children. Phillip, (then aged about 8 years old) and his three siblings were sent to such a workhouse. Conditions were very harsh for them. They all had to do hard manual work. Tasks that children typically did in workhouses included unpicking rope which often caused their hands to be sore and bleeding. They were also punished for not working hard enough and in the case of Phillip and his siblings for the “crime” of speaking Welsh. Back then, the Welsh language was completely banned at the workhouses and even in the schools in Wales. This was a long legacy of racism and discrimination that the ethnic Welsh had endured in Britain for the previous 500 years. Staff at the workhouse frequently locked Phillip and the other children into a cupboard for a couple of days without light, food or water. The staff would also use canes to hit the children on a regular basis. This mental and physical abuse probably had a profound effect on Phillip’s wellbeing and psyche. Whilst he was certainly traumatised by these experiences, as an adult he became very resilient and resistant to even extreme hardship, and these were attributes that were magnified considerably when he joined the Army later on. Phillip and his siblings remained in the workhouse for several years whilst they were young children. When his sister, Mae turned 14 years old, she left the workhouse, got a job and worked very hard for the next couple of years to get somewhere to live for herself and her three younger brothers. By the time Mae was 16 years old, she had rescued her three brothers from the workhouse. She then continued to work in excess of 70 hours per week in order to support them and herself. At the same time, she raised and cared for her three younger brothers and in effect became their mother. These hardships also had a huge effect on Mae who was only a teenager herself at the time. Although she eventually became a nurse, she never married or had children of her own. By the time Phillip and his two brothers were older teenagers, they had already started working in a steel foundry and had become men with maturity and harsh life experiences far beyond their chronological ages. After several years Phillip and Davey left the steelworks. By the mid 1930’s Phillip had joined the British Army. Davey’s life took a different direction although it was no easier for him. John remained in the steelworks industry until he retired when he was 70 years old (more about him later). Phillip started his basic training in the Army, and he enjoyed rapid success. This culminated with him being selected for a very special regiment. Phillip received advanced combat training with firearms and hand to hand weapons. One of the combat teachers was a reputed Japanese 9th Dan ninja martial artist who had already defected to the Allies before the outbreak war. After more training Phillip and his fellow soldiers faced their final test. This concerned living in the Scottish Highlands for 6 months in the winter on their own whilst surviving off the land. They also had to evade being captured by a whole battalion of regular troops. Upon completing this training, Phillip remained in the Army and by the time the Second World War started, he had risen to the rank of a sergeant in a very top-secret unit that was called “The Phantoms”. This might seem a ridiculous namesake, but make no mistake, this name was no joke or work of fiction as it all really happened. “The Phantoms were absolutely deadly serious, very real and their name reflected how they operated in complete secrecy and with total ruthlessness. In this unit, the soldiers were taught to speak other languages and engage in all aspects of guerrilla and espionage warfare. Nowadays, this kind of activity is referred to as “black opps”. Their whole purpose was to go deep into enemy territory occupied by Axis forces in all theatres of war in Africa, Europe and Asia. Phillip’s unit and the missions they undertook were subject to the Official Secrets Act for several decades after World War Two ended and officially their existence is still denied by the British Army. This is why the exploits of “The Phantoms” has been omitted from the official history books. Whilst the name “The Phantoms” and their exploits of extreme bravery may sound like something out of a Hollywood film, it was all very, very real and completely true. Some evidence still remains about Phillip’s activities during World War Two. This includes an official citation from the British Army and a letter he wrote to his brother, John whilst he was carrying out an operation in German occupied Belguim. This letter was supposed to be destroyed upon reading, but John kept it. There is a lot more to tell, so if people like part 1 here, I will write part 2 in due course. “Ciao for now”. During the war, Phillip used to end all his letters to his family with that phrase, and I feel humbled and honoured to say the same to you all now.
I understand why my paternal grandfather, who served in the Army Corps of Engineers during World War II, hated the Japanese until the day he died in 1995.
Many years ago I read that the survivors of the Japanese had implacable hatred for them....
Mr Mark Felton thank you for highlighting this forgotten acts of cannibalism, a lot of Indians don't ever realise the kind of contributions by the Indian soldiers of those times. Our own history has not taught us well.
Same here. USA has terrible history classes.
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Read Wiki Japanese atrocities WW 2.
Japanese beheadings of POW's and Civilians.
Japanese killing of POW's and Civilians WW2.
Japanese medical experiments on POW's and civilians.
Japanese forced labour camps WW2.
Japanese cannibalism WW2.
Japanese rations Asia Pacific WW 2.
Burma Railway WW 2.
Japanese invasion of Korea.
Japanese invasion of Manchuria.
Japanese invasion of China.
Japanese atrocities in China
Japanese Nanking Massacre.
etc, etc, etc,
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China’s and Korea’s attempts to spread propaganda and disinformation emphasize speed over quality.
Nobel prize, scientists:
25 Japanese,
2 Taiwanese,
3 Chinese,
0 Korean.
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All coloniser comit horrific crimes when they feel their rule is in danger . eg British in aftermath of 1857 they burnts 100 of villages ,hanged 27000 in just Delhi alone .
In 1975 when attending the Mexican National University I dated a Japanese girl also studying there. We dated for almost a year and talked about everything.. She was 25 in that year and her generation knew virtually nothing about WWII. We differed on that as my father had enlisted December 8, 1941 and made a career of it, retiring in 1974.
She seemed wholly uninformed of the IJN's & IJA's misconduct in any theater of war. I did not disabuse her. She did praise the memory of Douglas McArthur as a revered, liberalizing and much respected leader.
How WWII is taught or managed in Japanese schools today is unknown to me. If not changed from my girlfriend's instruction it's not history but hagiography and there is much left out.
I am of the impression that Japan has always educated it's children to believe they as a nation were victims of WW2....they've never accepted the rape of Nanking as their atrocity....the Korean comfort women and to this day believe they have the right to the return of islands legally given to the Soviets for their part in the destruction of the empire.
Sounds almost similar to the American south and their history during and pre Jim Crow
Pre-Jim crow? It’s literally happening in the south right now
@@ES-gv6xl So too, is the Civil War, the Cherokee Trail of Tears , the importation of slaves from Africa and Ireland. It's bad old world. Don't catch the Spanish Flu. Watch out for mustard gas when fighting in the trenches there in Flanders. Stay away from Hiroshima too.
@@ES-gv6xl we don't live in a Jim Crow America smh
What Japanese govt n it’s people did to asia is unforgivable
Thank you for bringing to light atrocities committed by the Japanese..but more so, thanks for talking about the Indian contribution..it has largely been erased in history, despite all the suffering
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Read Wiki Japanese atrocities WW 2.
Japanese beheadings of POW's and Civilians.
Japanese killing of POW's and Civilians WW2.
Japanese medical experiments on POW's and civilians.
Japanese forced labour camps WW2.
Japanese cannibalism WW2.
Japanese rations Asia Pacific WW 2.
Burma Railway WW 2.
Japanese invasion of Korea.
Japanese invasion of Manchuria.
Japanese invasion of China.
Japanese atrocities in China
Japanese Nanking Massacre.
etc, etc, etc,
@@emeraldbreeze5204 read “Unit 731” on wikipedia
British-Indian Army was later divided into 1947 Pakistan Army ( Punjabi & Pashtun Muslim ) and Indian Army ( Sikh/Punjabi & Gorkha/Nepali Hindu ) so here indian means some pakistani Muslim forefathers also
In our book we got to read that Indian didn't want to join WW2 n when the proposal was given that after WW2 India will get freedom but India will hv to take part from British side..InC rejected..then Subhash c.bose asked help from Japanese formed INA and revolted against British...I just know this litl information 😔😔😔
My sister-in-law is Indian and her and her family are salt of the Earth amazing people. This breaks my heart to hear of how her ancestors were treated.
@Dani Al They were butchered alive to be eaten. Poor them.
Question??? Why is it acceptable for an Indian man to marry or date a Caucasian women, yet the Indian culture forbids Indian women to marry or date outside there culture????
@@theclown2393 depends what group you come from
@@theclown2393 I don't understand? My brother is white like me and married an Indian woman. There was nothing forbidding about it. The family was very accepting of us.
@@theclown2393 because you couldnt get an indian girl lmao
I recall reading about cannibals in Papua New Guinea, perhaps as a back drop to the Australian army in that area during World War II. Supposedly, they tied a live prisoner to a tree and stripped flesh from him over days. This kept the prisoner alive longer and, thus, the meat edible (not rancid) longer in that heat, humidity, and environment.
I'm South Korean and living in Korea, which was harassed many times by Japan over centuries, I just hated Japan. But I grew up and I saw and read many affairs and history of Asia, and i learned and thought about the western world. And i started to notice there are many things in common between culture of Korea and Japan... including China.. overall East asia. I think Eastern asian culture doesn't understand divinity of individuals, prioritizing vain things, as honors or diginity, in context of crushing individual under power of group.
i think the culture is corrupted.
The corruption that is not the matter of efficiency of the system, but weakens and kills the soul of a man.
I don't mind Japanese apologizing to Korea anymore
I do not mind if Korea is annexed again by japan or if N.K. or china nuke the peninsula, because i was lucky enough to be free of these mad cultures, and live as a free individual under god.
If there is one thing i wish is that Asian people abandon all those vanity that culture demands them, and choose to live a free man.
Great comment Sir!!!
Shutup! Why are you putting china in this same category. What have they done to you?
@@monkeyking-self-proclaimed7050 well, a Chinese troll that doesn't know it's history. Last time Mao help NK against SK
Let me guess you are some kind of converted "chritian" or something to sprounting the virtues of Individualism. Sure asian colective culture has its problems but individualism its way worse.
Just look at the selfish way the average american behaves towards the entire pandemic, not giving a crap of how many people get infected and die because he wants to "keep his freedom" as an individual leading to the wrost death toll in the world.
Individual alienation is another product of individualism with thousands of young population resorting to opioids and dying in the process yet the society as a whole just watch and shrugs off as each individual doesn´t see it as their problem.
What about the epidemic of the homeless? Again as free individuals both the people who sleep on the street are left to their own fate and nobody cares if they die or if they go and kill some passing by innocent because since its all about individuals and doesn´t affect me its not my problem.
and i could keep going but point is clear individualism is destructive to society since we all live toguether if we were just hunters maybe individualism could be better but even then i doubt it.
@@monkeyking-self-proclaimed7050 The kind, wonderful Chinese have arrived, proving the original point.
I genuinely don't really see the issue with cannibalism. Certainly if people are dead anyway, eat them. We should be allowed to donate our bodies for that purpose. And in a time of war? Well, who cares. I'd eat the enemy if I were hungry. The things people do to factory farmed animals is way worse. People are hypocrites.
Mark, this is why you have the honourable title of a Doctor.
Thank you so much for all of your content. It’s absolutely fascinating and teaches us, the next generation, the truth of this terrible time in history.
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Keep them coming, Mark. Your loyal history junky fan.
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During times of severe famine, a frequent occurence in China, cannibalism became marked.The Great Historian Sima Qian records that in 594BC people ate each other's children and the dead in the walled city of Song, when it was beseiged by the Chu army.In the 9th century, towards the end of the Tang dynasty (618-906) a Persian trader reported that human flesh was being sold openly in markets.During the 12th century, it was said that 15 jin (1 jin = 1.323lbs) of dried meat was obtained from one human being.Towards the turbulent close of Yuan dynasty (1276-1368), it was said that children's meat was best, then women's, and the least were men's.Cannibalism was practiced not merely for sheer survival, but also as a means of revenge.
As I said before, my Grandfather had a hatred of Japanese until he died. Thanks Dr. Felton for keeping these Facts known, I know I will never forget Pearl Harbor and the Japanese Atrocities committed. My Grandfather went through WW2 in the U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet, all the way to Occupation.
2 nukes wasn't enough. I can't fathom why the Imperial family was spared or why the entire IJA wasn't executed.
@@DPRK_Best_Korea The family should have been in the place of the Romanovs.
@@DPRK_Best_Korea because the US government spared them so that they could make them a "good" capitalist nation.
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The bravery and loyalty of the South Asian (Indian, Sikh, Pakistani and Gurkhali) soldiers in all theatres of the war earned them deserved respect. How their contribution has been forgotten is a sad thing.
#LestWeForget #wewillrememberthem
Pakistani was not involved
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@@rahulgandhigandhi4242a lot of the soldiers were Muslims, they became Pakistanis after 1947
@@The_wolf2885 no you're a liar.
Sikhs are not separate.
When I first saw (years ago) the subtitle of Dr. Felton's book "Slaughter at Sea," I reacted (silently) in a fashion something like: "Oh, Lord, the Japanese were guilty of so many atrocities during World War II that we've got a book narrowing the subject down to just those committed by their navy." Another aspect of what Sir Max Hastings memorably (and usefully) termed "the mindless cruelty of the Japanese" during the war. But did the members of any other national army or partisan force commit such acts of cannibalism during the war?
Thank you for brining this to light. The contributions of the Indian Army in both world wars and many other "British" conflicts has been systemically erased, forgotten or ignored. While touring Normandy I have witness the uneducated dismissing the contributions of the Indian Army, and I have pointed out their contributions. Look at the names on the Menin Gate. The story of the Indian Army and the Gurkha contributions need to be brought out of the darkness. The horrors that you highlight cannot be hidden.
There are whole cemeteries in France filled only with Chinese labourers....no recognition for them?
@@daviddoran3673 I’m pretty sure that’s not what he said. This video is specifically about Indian soldiers in the British Army in the Pacific Theater of WWII.
Yes, you're right...I've re-read that post.
While that's true, I don't believe it to be the case in Britain where the Valor of Indian soldiers is celebrated along with their British counterparts who served as part of the same military formations. I do think the service of African units in both world wars however is largely forgotten.
@@montycasper4300 yes, but there are a ignorants in UK that believe that Empire never had indian soldiers
My Grandfather was a soldier in Z special force involved in operations in Borneo. Like many of that erra he didn't talk much about his deeds but I recall after I joined the Army he told me of his distain for the Japanese and that he was told about cannibalism before deployment. Possibly part of training indoctrination beforehand or perhaps clearly someone up the chain of command new this was happening. What those poor soles went through we shall never forget.
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A few members of my family served in Burma and I heard stories from relatives about what my own grandfather had experienced whilst held in a pow camp. We were also told why so many Indians joined the japanese during this time.
As an Indian i am horrified and so upset. Have been regularly watching your channels. Omg im so depressed just seeing the title. I knew the Japanese were cruel but this ….
Very few people that were there to witness World War II are alive today. And the people of Japan are not the same as their ancestors. War is often far more brutal than we are led to believe even among the actions of our own nations that took place in the past.
"Everything on RUclips is True" - Genghis Khan
@@VictorNewman201 the cruelty in this video is true.
More than once Marines found missing and captured GI bodies dismembered, beheaded and on a few occasions the found dismembered GI’s with their genitalia cut off and forced into their mouth as they bled out from their missing limbs.
The Japanese paid the price in 1945 by the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, what did the british pay for ruining and f**king the entire world?
And the video is strategically timed when India and Japan are conducting joint military exercises.
Seems understandable the british are british (channel location UK)
There is a disturbing Japanese documentary called " The Emperors naked army marches on" which is about a Japanese soldiers quest to track down the officers and NCOs of his regiment who murdered and cannibalised his friends and comrades.
He established that senior ranks ate POWs, natives and Japanese lower ranks. The dark skinned victims were termed 'black pig' and the white POWs were termed 'white pig'. It is an amazing documentary, fly on wall style, and is well worth a watch...
What a delicious concept. But srs I'll look it up
A story from my Grandfather. Who witnessed this. When the Gurkhas got to the Japanese camps they found no Gurkha POWs. Eventually they realized the guards had killed them all, and finding a mass grave. After that at several camps liberated by the Gurkhas, no Japanese or Korean Guards survived the experience. Their British Officers and Senior NCOs stood back and didn't interfere simply because they knew this was a matter of Gurkha honour and not for them to interfere in.
@wigwam1747 the Koreans were forcefully conscripted from the Japanese-annexed Korea.
People really do miss out on how barbaric Japanese were in the world wars, their atrocities in China are indescribable
There's a documentary here on RUclips about this war.
Battle of imphal or something like that.
Gurkhas used to raid Japanese camps during night time and take their heads, ears etc.
Just war things.
@businessman4473You do know Indian doesn't mean Hindu and there are Muslim officers and soldiers in our Army too.
@@abhilash9918pissing off a Gurkha is the fastest way to get the Darwin award.
Incredible. Thank you for your efforts at shedding light on forgotten parts of history - even if it is at times shocking to hear.
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And There are idiots in my country ( sri lanka ) and india that say the japanese were "liberating" asia from western colonialism 😂
The Japanese made a play as acting as liberators from colonialism with their Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere
The problem with this was their deplorable treatment of the native peoples
Japan is like that cute quiet girl in class, who drives a little toyota prius and has a hello kitty backpack, but listens to heavy metal and reads graphic horny novels about samuri.
So fucking strange..
This should absolutely be acknowledged.
Growing up in a Pakistani village in the 80s we knew an old guy who fought for British Empire during world war in China. He was a funny old man but never spoke about his experiences in the war. One day we all kids asked him to tell us a story from the war when we first read it in the class. He told us that he was captured by the Japanese army and was a PoW. He told us that the camp would often run out of supply because of different issues like the supply was cut or destroyed by the forces so Japanese not only killed and ate the POWs but also fed them human flesh as well. They had no option but to eat whatever is provided due to the circumstances. Honestly, all of us thought he is making stuff up but later we found out it was true. The cool thing he had was an air conditioner size radio which still worked. He passed away in late 90s.
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I'm European. I often hear news about how Caucasians and Asians from Central Asia attack and can even kill a Slav or a white European in a street fight. But Caucasians and Central Asians almost never fight in street fights with Far Eastern Asians of the Mongolian race - such as the Chinese, Gurkhas, Vietnamese and Chinese. Because unlike the tolerant and pampered Europeans, the Mongols fight seriously. And the Gurkhas, Chinese and Japanese are Mongols too. It is not for nothing that in the Middle Ages the Mongolian race was nicknamed “Tatars” - translated as “hell”. Europeans in the 13th century fainted at the sight of the Mongols and Chinese
Hey these videos are great, way better than anything my history teacher ever thought me, my grandfather fought in WWII and I've only ever heard the allies stories and their side and thanks to this channel, it's going to remain that way, I like being ignorant and not hearing the other side's story, it's easier that way,
The problem with history lessons is that the students are there involuntary and maybe don't care about the topic which is taught.
Also... History lessons in school won't focus on the details Mr Felton ist focusing on.
Also... For most classes this video would be as boring as learning about merkantilism under Louis xiv in France.
That's what happens when you attend public schools, you learn nothing.
That’s not at all a good view, if you only looked at history from one side you’ll never be able to understand what really happened and why, the Japanese were for the most part an honorable people who were so ready to die for the emperor that often when they didn’t complete an important task properly they would go so far as to kill themselves, but they were also a vengeful and brutal people, but it’s important to understand both sides
@@youtubedislikebutton6031 sorry, but no. The Japanese were not an “honourable people”. They were a hyper nationalistic imperialistic and expansionist country. Of course, these were all common for the time but Japan cranked it up to 11.
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My parents lived as children, during the Japanese occupation of Malaya. My father said that the Japanese made no secret of their belief that the devil lurked inside, dark skinned people. He saw Indian POW's, tied up and rolled down a hill, for target practice. Indian babies were snatched from their mothers, tossed into the air, an bayonetted as they came down.
Both of my parents were stunned to learn, after the war, that Chandra Bose and his men were treated as heroes in Indian, while the veterans who served in British forces, were ignored and did not receive pensions. This injustice continues today.
Chandra Bose was either a fool, or was deliberately ignoring this barbaric racism. I suspect the latter. One must therefore conclude, that he knew how the Japanese would treat the people of India, if they succeeded in defeating the British. Apparently, he didn't care, as long as the Japanese, gave him a cosy position in the new India.
You said the exact opposite thing... India's first PM was Neheru who didn't like Subhash Chandra Bose or his followers!! So, either you are fool or got fooled by your father!!
Your statement is wrong. British Indian veterans were given pensions and all benefits because they served in what would become the modern India army.
@@sudiphui4566 Not just my father. Many relatives, on both sides of my family, witnessed these things. As a six year old girl, my mother was forced to watch Japanese, bury an Indian family, alive. It was alleged that they has been listening to allied, radio broadcasts. No proof of their "crime", was ever furnished.
None of this is new, or secret information. Chandra Bose would have been fully aware, of the attitude towards Indian people in Malaysia, by the Japanese.
@@shivmalik9405 There are plenty who say, otherwise, right here on RUclips:
ruclips.net/video/7uqnBhQ8iGQ/видео.html
@@sudiphui4566 The same Nehru who donned the lawyers robe after decades to defend the INA soldiers tried for mutiny by the British . So who's the fool here?
Germans are reminded all the time about what their country did during WW2. I'm amazed how the Japanese won't acknowledge any of the atrocities they committed.
Because they were even worse probably
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"Who wants Indian ?" said the first Japanese cannibal.
"Me, me me !" shouted the other soldiers, as a steaming tray of Human Korma was brought in.
But seriously, the Japanese soldiers must have mistakenly thought, "if Indian food is so delicious, then Indians themselves must taste even better !"
So it took them 2 nukes to turn to Sony from cannibalism
I think this is known about in Japan. For example, cannibalism of Japanese soldiers was depicted in the 1959 Japanese film "Fires on the Plain".
In George McDonald Fraser's book "Quartered safe out here", he describes capturing some Indian deserters who were fighting for the Japanese.
This is so disgusting I had no idea that this ever happened. May all the brave people who lived through this horror may no peace.
Disgusting as it might be, British had a lot of tortured chambers which they used to run to punish Indian freedom fighters. If you hear those stories you might be equally disgusted or even more. One reason why Indians doesn’t care much about these soldiers was because they were loyal to the vow to the crown. To Indian they were oppressors as well.
The British crown should be the one to recognize their sacrifice and their locality because Indian people consider the one who joined INA as heroes.
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@@Contractor48
Torture chambers????? Idiot
Read Wiki Japanese atrocities WW 2.
Japanese beheadings of POW's and Civilians.
Japanese killing of POW's and Civilians WW2.
Japanese medical experiments on POW's and civilians.
Japanese forced labour camps WW2.
Japanese cannibalism WW2.
Japanese rations Asia Pacific WW 2.
Burma Railway WW 2.
Japanese invasion of Korea.
Japanese invasion of Manchuria.
Japanese invasion of China.
Japanese atrocities in China
Japanese Nanking Massacre.
etc, etc, etc,
@@Contractor48
You are a "professional Liar".
The Indian People don't share your Fascist views.
Read Wiki Japanese atrocities WW 2.
Japanese beheadings of POW's and Civilians.
Japanese killing of POW's and Civilians WW2.
Japanese medical experiments on POW's and civilians.
Japanese forced labour camps WW2.
Japanese cannibalism WW2.
Japanese rations Asia Pacific WW 2.
Burma Railway WW 2.
Japanese invasion of Korea.
Japanese invasion of Manchuria.
Japanese invasion of China.
Japanese atrocities in China
Japanese Nanking Massacre.
etc, etc, etc,
@@grahamlucas2712 do you know what facism even means? I dare you to define it. Maybe you will get educated as well.
Japanese war crimes sure got uncovered. The British hid their crimes well. Benefits of being a victor i guess.
Ask yourself a question? Why didn’t allies punish the Japanese people if they were so “evil”.
Thankyou Dr Felton for honouring us with your words and information about our forefathers. My grandfather joined the Pakistani army after the partition of British India. Respect from Campbellpore (Now Attock), Punjab 🇵🇰
Its just tragedy for India and Indian soldiers
They fought against japanese and fought alongside japanese
But in both situation they were treated badly
Those who fought for brits ,those were sidelined as they are not seen with great light and those fought alongside Japanese were treated like insects
First of all WWs was not Indians war to begin with but they were forced to fight and we need to teach our masses about the attrocities our soldiers went through in the war,many people are simply unware of these events
Our ancestors simply died and suffered in someone else's war
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In his book Shokujin Enseki - Massatsu sareta Chugoku Gendaishi (Cannibal Banquet - Modern Chinese History Erased) (Tokyo: Kodansha Kappa Books, 1993), Cheng I describes in detail how, as a young Red Guard during the Cultural Revolution in south China, he witnessed hundreds of children, women and men classified as Counter-revolutionaries killed and eaten by the perpetrators, with such comments as "human meat tastes better when broiled than boiled."
The Japanese soldiers were also guilty of cannibalizing captured dead & wounded Australians on the Kokoda Track over the Owen Stanley Range towards Port Moresby. You can imagine the FURY and increased combat aggressiveness of battle hardened Aussies, fresh from the Middle East, when they came upon the grisly evidnce of their mates in Japanese cooking pots!
Yes- when Australian soldiers were attempting to rescue wounded and also retrieve their dead comrades and found to their horror chunks of flesh sliced off the thighs and buttocks by the (starving) Japanese it was understood by all that there would be "no prisoners taken" from that point on. During WWII the Aust govt never allowed the public to know of these atrocities, for fear it would demoralize the people. I suppose also it was deemed more tactful to inform next of kin and families "your Father-Husband -Son was killed in action fighting for his country" than "he died for his country and was eaten by the enemy". I don't mention this in a glib fashion, my Uncle was a Catalina tail gunner in New Guinea and even though he returned from the war his experiences destroyed his remaining life.
I've probably watched/read hundreds of hours of WWII history, and this has never been mentioned once (at least from what I've come across). Thank you Mark for continuing to put out thought-provoking, lesser known (but extremely significant) stories and high-quality content for future generations. Subscribing to you was one the best decisions I've made.
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@@justicexxx4506 but did the Yanks eat them too?
@@McChillin10 I mean, the allies, including the US, never condemn their own barbarism.
@@justicexxx4506 then go make a video on it I'll be your first like
@@justicexxx4506 The Japanese have never acknowledged their atrocities in the war until now.
Appalling. Reminds us that our species is never far from descending into barbarism, given the right conditions. So easy to dehumanize others.
nothing to do with our species ... dont compare the rest of us to japanese.....
@@nithyasmith7492 you're literally doing it right now.
Hey Mark--- if you read this----- there is another horror story about Japanese soldiers in WW2 that is worth doing a video about. Perhaps you have already covered this, but I thought I'd mention this if you haven't. At the end of the war there was an island off India with a Japanese air base. The British invaded and the Japanese retreated back into the jungle. Unfortunately for the Japanese, they were forced to escape through a dense swamp which was infested with large crocodiles. The British started to hear Japanese screaming in terror as the crocodiles attacked them. Many were killed, a truly horrifying story.
Japanese Army vs. Killer Crocodiles 1945 Mark Felton Productions
ruclips.net/video/yuqslS_yV2U/видео.html
Thank you so much for educating us all about these horrendous crimes! I cannot imagine anyone going through this for so long.
Try to read “American mutilation of Japanese war dead” on Wikipedia !!! 😫
@@whitefog5006 The desecration of war dead by Americans while horrible. Pales in comparison with slowly cannibalizing prisoners of war while their still alive and continued torturing them before eating them.
Thanks. Helps my understanding my dad’s hatred for the Japanese of WWII better. He was a mechanic on B17s and B29s at the end of the war.
This is the first time I've ever heard of these terrible acts. RIP you brave soldiers - you should be given public recognition, even if it's too late for a war crimes tribunal.
You must be young - us oldies heard lots of similar stories from veterans back in the day - it’s all being hushed up now - racism you know
George HW Bush, the American President almost had this fate. Search Chichijima incident
Lol the japanese did this pretty much anywhere they go during WW2. They rape, kill, torture and even cannibalize their enemies.
To this day the Japanese government is not at all shy about crying “racism” at anyone who criticizes or even mentions what Japan did during World War II.@@CarolFremel-my4hs
The 201 Squadron helped to free the Philippines and caused 30K casualties to the Japanese in WW2 they call them the Aztec Eagles.
And it wasn't our first showdown with the Japanese.
The Tlaxcalteca warriors already defeated samurais in the Philippines.
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Mr Felton Sir
This is probably one the darkest subject matters you have ever covered
It is obviously needed and fair play to you for stepping up
As an ex Brit paratrooper I have always appreciated your work.
After this subject matter I would sincerely recommend that one attains some spiritual cleansing of the soul for ones own mental balanced health
Researchers of genocide and other atrocities tend to become pessimistic about humanity over time due to the subject matter studied
Your work is extremely highly regarded and valued
And I would like to think that all who study your work wish for it to continue too
Consequently Sir ,
Please consider yourself prayed for…..
God bless
✌️
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Read “American mutilation of Japanese war dead” on Wikipedia !!! 😫😫😨
Congratulations Mark on yet another outstanding video. I’ve learned a great deal from your videos even though I consider that I already had a respectable knowledge of many World War 2 campaigns. There’s always more to learn and more details to add to one’s existing knowledge. Thank you! ✅
I think blogger should have done more research on Indian National Army and its later impact on British Indian Navy revolt in Bombay. Antagonist of one country may be protagonist of another. May be Japanese army practiced cannibalization against Indian but how Britishers were different? They ate our souls for 200 years on the name of civilization correction which has no meaning at all in today's world. Every non-native has looted us but at least Japanese had given us a will to fight may be indirectly or non-willingly. Sad to see people still feel proud on there colonizer forefathers.
War brings out hate and the unthinkable in everyone
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I had heard of this many years ago. It was hard to validate back then. Now, today with all the censorship in education and social media, I’m surprised this is still up on RUclips. I think Dr. Felton should be lauded for his investigation and summary. It’s quite a brave and courageous body of work in these sixteen minutes. Thank you Dr. Felton.
what a stupid statement lmao
@@11geosno No its really not. I don’t remember learning about any of these atrocities in school. I did learn how disrespectful and racist American soldiers were though. This dude is on the money and you’re in denial
Everyone knows the Japanese have no souls.🧐
I knew of harsh mistreatment but never this level of inhumanity. Thank you for bringing it to our attention.
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When you hear some of the sick atrocities the Japanese committed you kinda feel less sorry about the Hiroshima thing 🤷🏾♂️
Thanks for educating people on the depravity of imperial japans military. This topic was completely left out in all of my history classes on ww2 and it took until my first visit to a university seminar to find out the magnitude of their crimes.
President Ayub Khan was a Col in Burma, fought bravely.
Another thing : before you put trust into your own Japanese education system, remember that
you live in a country that lionized and celebrated a serial killer Issei Sagawa.
That alone shows just how twisted your society is, as well as the thinking process of its citizens.
Japan's historical distortion, historical revisionism, is too absurd
Please make video on Bengal Famine During Japanese Invasion.
This is not related to WW2
@@XxBloggs it is, it was created by Churchill
@@XxBloggs So you mean That Famine didn't Happened during WW2? By the British by Winstons Churchill Faulty Policies..it happened in 1943 during Japanese Invasion in Burma...and so on
@@rishav_killerx6011 Yeah I would like to know more about this too.
If not for Churchill’s policies India would be slaves of the Japanese and far more would have died
I'm from New Guinea (Present day Papua New Guinea) and this is my first time hearing this horrible cannibalistic story. Respect to Indians who resisted Jap oppression even when hope seemed lost. Both those who died and those who lived were and will be absolute legends. 💪
The Japanese army was a cult. The Shinto religion states that the Imperial Family's descended from the Gods. But the WW2 Emperor slightly altered this and said He wasn't just descended from the Gods, but that He WAS God!
The Japanese army was a fanatical religious cult, no better than modern Islamist terrorists. The Japanese would enslave little girls to be their sex slaves, they'd perform suicide bombings, fly their planes into boats and buildings, torture and behead their prisoners, etc. They even performed ritual human sacrifice and cannibalism on their POWs in honor of the Emperor, even when there was plenty of rations.
You're from New Guinea? I hope you're doing well. I know New Guinea also has a sad history, being conquered by everyone around them. Germany, Britain, Netherlands, Australia, Japan, Indonesia, etc.
A bit of history relevant to WW2: the natives of New Guinea picked sides during the war. Some New Guineans helped the Australians, healed them back to strength after they got injured, helped them fight the Japanese, etc. The Australians called them "Fuzzy-Wuzzy Angels".
Other New Guineans collaborated with the Japanese invaders, promised that the Japanese would free them from the Australians and British (why the Papuans would help the Japanese after the Japanese started raping several Papua girls and women, I'll never understand). There's a famous photograph of an Australian solider in New Guinea being beheaded by a Japanese solider in front of a crowd of other Japanese and natives.
Leonard Siffleet and two other Australians were ambushed and captured by a pro-Japanese New Guinea village. The natives handed Siffleet and his men over to the Japanese. They were brought to a nearby beach where a crowd of Japanese soldiers and natives were waiting. The three Australians were brutally beaten and tortured, before they were finally beheaded. Their remains were buried on the beach. There's a memorial dedicated to them in Lae, PNG.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Siffleet#Death_and_legacy
There's one Japanese solider in the background SMILING. He's the only one doing so that I see, none of the other Japanese or natives are smiling, not even the executioner!
@@sirhenrymorgan1187 The beheading of the Australian Sgt. Leonard Siffleet and the others happened in my home province in another town called, Aitape.
@@penguin9965 You ever been to the memorial? It's crazy to live near somewhere where you know somebody historical died, y'know? I bet you could find the exact spot...
I wanna know if that village ever realized that the Japanese were full of shit and had no intention of actually freeing New Guinea. Unless they honestly considered what Japan did in Korea, China, etc., "liberation".
@@sirhenrymorgan1187 I live in the capital Port Moresby, but whenever I get the time to go there I'll try to visit the actual spot he was beheaded.
@@sirhenrymorgan1187 I've been to the Province once but, never went to the place area where he was beheaded.
Send this to the Emperor's family, Mark . Then they can finally apologise for atrocities committed during their reign. Lost my great-uncle at Kohima Garrison in '44.