The Unspeakable Things That Happened On Japanese Hell Ships
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
- After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States, the United Kingdom and Holland suffered setback after setback at the hands of the Japanese throughout the western Pacific, or the eastern Pacific for those of you in Asia. The British possessions of Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong were overrun, as were parts of New Guinea, the giant island north of Australia. The United States lost Guam, Wake Island, and worst of all from the point of view of both prestige and power, the Philippines. The Free Dutch, whose nation had been conquered by Hitler in 1940, maintained control of their Indonesian colony, including the territory of Brunei - two of the richest territories in the Pacific, mainly in oil and rubber after Hitler's takeover of Holland, but lost it to his allies the Japanese in beginning in January, 1942. At the time, Indonesia was known as “The Dutch East Indies.”
Most of the prisoners the Japanese took during the war were taken in the early stages of the campaign in the Pacific. Prisoners taken later in the war as the Allies regrouped and took the offensive from mid-1942 onward were most often executed shortly after being captured, or questioned using torture, and then killed later.
One of the reasons so many prisoners were taken was because of the nature of the war. All of the territories the Allies defended, with the exception of those in Southeast Asia, like Burma, were islands. With the defeat of the Allied Fleets in the area, there was no hope of reinforcement or resupply for the soldiers and civilians of the Western Powers. Mass surrenders occurred when all hope was lost. Hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers, sailors, and airmen were taken prisoner, and hundreds of thousands more civilians became prisoners of the Japanese as well.
That's just counting the Europeans and Americans the Japanese held. Throughout Asia, from the Japanese forced hundreds of thousands of Filipinos, Burmese, Vietnamese, Malayans, Singaporeans and Indonesians into slavery for the many projects they were attempting to build in order the strengthen their defensive and transportation networks.
Death March
There are some excellent movies about the experience of those taken prisoner by the Japanese in WWII: “Empire of the Sun,” “Paradise Road,” “The Great Raid.” “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence”, and the most famous of them all, “The Bridge on the River Kwai.” By the way, Paradise Road is probably the most accurate, with “Empire of the Sun” and “The Great Raid” a close second. “The Bridge on the River Kwai” is a great movie, but while they were alive, the men who survived the ordeals of the Burma Railroad made sure they let the world know that they hated it, if we tell you why, it'll be a spoiler, so we won't - BUT there are parts of the film that hit the nail on the head - and that's all about the incredible suffering endured by all of the men taken by the Japanese. The worst part is, most of the misery was not because of the heat, or the bugs, poisonous snakes or even the disease - it was because on top of all of this, many Japanese officers and guards tormented their prisoners almost without end. Some books and first hand accounts will tell of kind Japanese guards, or perhaps “less mean” is a better way to phrase it, but sadly, on the whole most accounts are full of physical and psychological torture, disregard, starvation, beatings, and executions.
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Stories like this make me not feel bad that we showed them the sun twice
yeah fuck those civilians lmao they personally gave the military orders
Agreed.
Go visit the Hiroshima Peace Museum. That'll wipe the smug keyboard warrior smirk off your face.
@@freakystyley4000
The nuclear bombs saved a lot more lives than they took
Without them my father an escaped POW in hiding in the jungle in Japanese occupied North Borneo more than likely would not have survived and my family my children and my granddaughter wouldn't exist today either would the Japanese population as it is today or probably the greater part of the world's population
And let's face it if the Japanese had nuclear weapons they would've used them only they would not have stopped at two
Didn't you know that ?
@@mossthey
Filthy cannibals
My dad was a 19 year old Marine with the 4th Marine regiment, he got captured on Corregidor. He was put on one of those hell ships to Japan, where he was a POW for the entire war at Kawasaki camp 2B.
he told me the experience of it when I was old enough, he told me that the young Marines and army and navy personnel were going crazy with thirst, and were slicing their wrists to drink blood and fighting each other.
And MacAurther ran away.
@@duanepigden1337 dugout, Doug, what I didn't say was that my dad was called to his orderly room and told to report to Corregidor. He was put on MacArthur's Marine bodyguard and he was on that until he left on the PT boats. My dad did not have one good thing to say about that guy.
@@duanepigden1337 According to Layton in his book AND I WAS THERE, MacArther should have been court-martialed; he refused to allow his air commander to attack the Japanese air field; on the day the air commander wanted to attack the air field, the Japanese were lined up on the runway, one after the other, full of fuel and armed bombs.
After the first plane in line had been hit, it would prevented every other plane from taking off and possibly would have started a chain reaction of explosions!
@@johndesade126 -- thanks, I totally agree.
Dear Jesus! 😢
I saw an interview with one of the Dolittle's airmen that was captured in Japan, released, and the captured by the Germans. He said the German camp was like a vacation in comparison.
TIs true. THe nazis in their own way were kinda lovable.
你来中国的纪念馆看看就知道了，西方媒体只讲述了日本恶行的很少一部分，真相比你想的残忍的多
being captured wasn't really viewed as shameful by the germans, you're family would be told that you died if you were a captured Japanese to spare them the dishonor. The germans had a vested interest in getting their own officers back at some point so they treated their pows well so that the care would be reciprocated
my grandpa was captured by usa and later by russians. he played cards with the usa-ians and had to 'hunt' for tortoises in order to have something to eat in russian prison.
My mother's cousin survived the Bataan Death March and 2-½ years in Japanese POW camps in the Philippines, but in October of 1944, he was in the hold of the Arisan Maru when it was torpedoed and sunk by the USS Shark off the coast of Taiwan (Formosa). All on board got off the ship, even though the Japanese crew abandoned the ship leaving all the prisoners locked in the hold, but almost all of them (including my mother's cousin), almost 1800, died. A handful escaped, some of whom were recaptured, and a couple of them actually made it to an American base in China, but almost all of them drowned. I can't even begin to imagine the suffering my mother's cousin and his compatriots underwent.
Horrifying!
Two atomic bombs
Humans suck. I don't believe we are made in the image of any God.
How fucked . Sorry to hear that .
@@markhodgson2348 were needed
My father was on one of those Hell Ships the Canadian Maru and survived the trip to Japan and the war. He was also on the Death March and survived 3 1/2 years as a prisoner of the Japanese in the Philippines. He suffered with the memory of that the rest of his life. He only talked about it to me after I returned from Vietnam I guess he knew we had something in common, we had both been to war.
Respect to you,and your Dad.He must have been so happy,when you came home.He knew the absolute horror of war.
My neighbor was also a POW of the Japanese in the Phillipines (I believe Bilibid) and also was on the Bataan Death March. He could not tell me about his experiences, he said it would trigger flashbacks and nightmares
You had both been to hell
Charlie says hi
Yall heroes for simply surviving, I can't even imagine
My Grandfather was English and captured in the fall of Singapore when he was 19. He was sent to Burma for almost 4 years. He weighed 80lbs when he got out of there. He eventually came to Canada in 1950 and had 11 children so somewhat of a happy ending. His brother didnt make it though.
That’s crazy that even after that much damage from malnutrition he was still able to have kids and 11 times that’s crazy I guess that’s why men make infinite sperm a woman probably would have been infertile for life
canada is just another genocidal regime how is that happy?
My grandfather survived the Bataan deathmarch. The stories I heard about it are beyond horrible.
My grandfather flew a B24 Snooper. He sunk many Jap ships, including one with POWs . He physically carried those mens names on him till the day he died.
I think everyone’s grandfather survived the Bataan death march. And then their uncles went on to become top snipers in Vietnam
My great grandfather died in the notorious concentration camp Auschwitz. Apparently he had to many drinks and fell out of his machine gun tower.
@@vs4798 RIP
@@vs4798wait..... Hold on a second
An elderly neighbour, since passed away, was a POW in a Japanese camp. The most amiable old fellow until you mentioned the Japanese. You may think you hate, but it doesn't come close to his hate of the Japanese.
Same goes for every country that got invaded by US cause of resources, you are no better then Japanese, in some cases you are far worse.
I'm his case, I Believe there's a huge difference between being racist and being scarred. This man was scarred. Without that experience he may have lived an entire peaceful life. But, that experience is enough to truly hate an entire populace with severe intensity.
@@dirkz.duggitz1567true, imagine how Americans who had relatives perish in 9.11 feel when they learn about operation northwoods
@@jakestablettableto9453 I'm gonna have to look that one up and get back to you.
@@dirkz.duggitz1567 so what did u find out?
Germany has asked forgiveness for nazi crimes, Japan never had the honor to do the same.
Why would you ask for forgiveness for something you intended to do
@@youknow2849 . In Germany, those who came after the war understood the evilness and crimes committed by the nazis. In Japan, that didn’t happen. So, I guess you’re right, japanese think they did right during the war. Really sad
@@desiderata8811 in Japan, most who came after the war more or less understood that Japan was bad. They just didn’t know the extent to which Japan was bad and that’s because the remnants of the empire of Japan still have influence over the government today and that includes the education system. The average Japanese person will not look upon figures like Hideki Tojo favorably.
They got two nukes instead 🤷♂️
@@honorv.8262 : Japan got off easy.
My father-in-law fought the Solomon Islands Campaign with the the US Army. He hated the Japanese with a frightening intensity till the day he died. All he ever said, about Guadalcanal one night after a few shots of Johnny Walker, was "The things they left for us to find..." He shook his head, took the bottle, and went off to bed, never speaking of it again.
I heard of the savagery of the Japanese my great grandfather hunted down and killed a Japanese sniper who I think killed a squad mate he took the man’s rifle and his ammo home with him and the weopans up on his wall perfectly maintained till he died.
After listening to Dan Carlin's Supernova of the East. They left tortured bodies of captured Americans for the Allies to find hoping to demoralize them. All it did was make them angry.
I worded on Guadalcanal in 2010. I found a Japanese helmet with a bullet hole through the dome at Alligator Creek. I also found a US trench knife with brass knuckles and 5 notches on the handle at Edsons Ridge. My grand dad fought in Papua New Guinea.
@@spookieboogi6161a Japanese soldier would take the enemies balls and put them in his mouth before beheading them. That’s how insecure and inhumane those sick fucks were
@@SPOOKSTR NNG, 1962?
I interviewed a US Navy Seaman who was taken prisoner only two weeks after Pearl Harbor, MIA, eventually taken to Japan to work in the lead mines. His family never heard if he was alive until he was released from the hospital in the states and he walked 30 miles to get home, nobody was home, they drove to go look for him.
MY dad, Oscar Otero NM survived the bombing of the Oryoku Maru, and was sent to Fukuoka Camp 18 between Naga and Hirosh. He survived, and then died in 1951 at 28 yr old from multiple cancers at Brooks Army Hospital, TX. My dad was remembered in Manny Lawton's "Some Survived" which I will always be grateful for.
THX for your dad's service. I can relate. My uncle survived Bataan and a couple of POW camps, only to end up on the Shinyo Maru. It was torpedoed by USS Paddle, but unfortunately... he was not one of the handful of men who survived.
He is a hero
@@eggstu as all those who made it back and especially those who gave their lives and never came home, and so many who are now forgotten...gone when the memories died when their buddies died in old age.
Everything will always be forgotten eh
I use to know a old soldier who was a prisoner of the Japanese he very rarely spoke about it but what he did tell me made me sick I could see the pain in his eyes I can only imagine the horrors he saw and never told me especially as so many of them never face any justice and the men were never properly looked after at end of the war
What did he tell you?
Stuff that would get me banned on here. He always said it was how they enjoyed being as cruel as they could be your life meant nothing to them they would squash you like a bug I could never imagine how hard it got the weaker your body got I will always treasure the pictures he left me before he died he took of the Burma railway he took when he went back in the 80s I said i think it helped him say goodbye to some old ghosts as he looked like a weight had been lifted from him
@@davidlewis2447i frequently get comments deleted, you dont get banned lol
对比中国受日本人的残暴行为，其他国家幸运的多
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My Grandfather was a POW of the Japanese and was transported by one of these ships. Dude was hardcore, never heard him complain about anything ever growing up. Learned about it all after he passed and was blown away by what he went thru! RIP GPA!
🕯️GPA🕯️
he's probably in real hell now
Did he drink?
a fellow tarkov enjoyer
@@jotrutch not all of us are gullible and believe in fairy tales like Hell/Heaven like you lmfao. 🤡
My dad was there, told some parts to me. Always avoided talking about the ships, his silence spoke volumes.
got any proof or more lies? we need to fact check these claims ?
@@GrandMasterKai Bro, millions of people fought on the side of the allies during WWII, theres a higher likelyhood that he could have indeed been there. But hows this guy gonna prove it huh? send you his dead dads service records?? L O L
@@GrandMasterKaiyeah go look up unit 731 or the rape of nanking. Since you want to grandstand on moral grounds you don't have let get educated.
Hey maybe you want a movie version?
I'd highly recommend men behind the sun. Fantastic and highly accurate flick. Maybe philosophy of a knife? Most of these are free to stream.
I can’t believe I’d never heard of this before. It’s crazy how no matter how much you know on a topic like WWII, there’s always pieces you’re missing. It’s hard to comprehend how god awful the experience these people went through was. It’s like the Trans Atlantic Slave ships only with weapons of mass death destruction added in.
The ones on the allied ships/planes that sunk the hell ships probably dealt with horrible trauma from being tricked into killing their own.
Nothing like this should have happened nor should it ever happen again. War is a disgusting tool that the worst of humanity uses to destroy what happiness could’ve been.
Bruh there is so much about Japan in WW2 that's just starting to come out. Jump down that rabbit hole
I am British, we never learned about japans atrocities in school, barely...we learned almost only about the Nazi Germany. Ugh, I have been fascinated by Japanese culture growing up, now i learn all this..
You guys want to see some crazy stuff the Japanese did in WW2 and few people talk about, then look into Unit 731.
You’ll have to escape the clutches of public education in order to learn the truth…
@@phreakisop9810 I'm British and we were taught about the "comfort women" and the horrific things that were done.
Thank you to all our Veterans. I am so grateful for all of y’all.
Japan was more brutal than Nazis. Most people got no clue about these as they only see peaceful side of Japan they're allowed to see nowadays.
Allied were treated well (according to Geneva conventions) as Nazi POWs because the were seen as racially equal. Slavs, on the other hand, not so much. 3M of the 5.7M russian POWs died..
Hollywood has its boogeyman priorities.
Exactly. I just said the same thing. 💯
@@johnnyredux4019 well, most of the civilians, not involved or forced into the military, were peaceful. It's the governments & politicians, that are so evil.
@@johnnyredux4019 it was the American GOVERNMENT who covered up Japanese war crimes and handed out political immunity to high ranking involved officials. Not sure why you expect Hollywood to teach you history but the movie industry is not why it's not talked about.
Knew an old Marine who was on one of those dreadful boats. For the rest of his life, he wouldn't allow anyone driving a Japanese car to park in his driveway.
My great uncle was one and didn't care, he only hated the soldiers not the women.
So they weren’t Godzilla fans???
@@treystephens6166 Eh, I don't know. The guy I knew would have likely been cheering for Godzilla to kick their asses.
@@dullahan7677 oh yeah that’s right Godzilla hates Japan 🇯🇵
Lol what a wuss
I think the POWs on the hell ships got a small mercy when they got sunk and that's insane to think about I hope they are all at peace now and I thank them all for their sacrifice
This is what u did to blacks during slavery 😀😁😄😃
I thought the same, it's horrible but a small mercy to end their suffering.
I agree
I wish these souls nothing but peace.
never surrender to such an enemy
Yes, I too was thinking the same thing.
I remember about 10 years ago I was on vacation. I heard about this gentleman that was receiving all his back medals because he survived the Bataan Death March. He had no surviving family so it was on the front page of the paper I went I didn't know this gentleman but because I'm a marine I went for his service I was so glad to see he got to live to see his medals be given to him❤❤❤ thank you for covering this, one of my great-uncles was shot down he was supposed to be on this transport but the transport was full and when he learned fake he was terrified because he had lost a lot of buddies. Not many people know this part of History so thank you
My dad had a mate that was caught in Singapore by Japanese he said he never spoke about it but there was one thing he did tell and that you couldn't miss a Japanese officer dug his teeth out with a bayonet and because his gums was so uneven he couldn't even wear dentures so couldn't eat properly.
My God.
Horrific beasts those Japanese soldiers
My Great grandfather was one of the 600+ survivors of the yunyo maru, he spend 3 days in between the dead bodies in the sea to not be eaten by sharks. to be rescued by the japanese to be put back to do forced labour. It feels crazy that something so unspeakable happened so close.
I will never understand why humans want to hurt other humans so bad. The veterans shown at the end broke my heart.
Don't blame humans. Blame the savagery of mother nature.
I knew a man who fought the Japanese in Indonesia. He made a pact with his other men to ensure they would not be captured.
My father who was a prisoner of the Japanese made me promise never to be captured when I went to Vietnam, he knew how brutal the Asians were to their prisoners. I made the promise I would save the last round for me.
Don't forget the contribution and suffering of the brave (South) Asian troopers serving the British Empire.
Yes, I have known a number of Indian men who served with Slims 14th Army. These men knew exactly what fate awaited their families in India if they had lost. Interestingly, they knew that any of those Indians who served under the Japanese would only surrender to British troops.....Indian troops would have dealt with them in a quite different way!
Wow, thanks for telling me this. I didn't know. Going to go read about it.
If the Japanese ever try to deny what they did to the comfort women, just remember how they treated the male laborers in public.
They're still trying to this day. The city I live in has a statue dedicated to comfort women, which the japanese are trying to get removed to this day.
In 1981 I was in Japan for 5 months. My boss there was a physician and chemist. He was one of the main men involved in Unit 731
He scared the shyt out of me!!
I only found this out after I returned home. In fact decades later
What went on in Unit 731 is the stuff of nightmares. Yet another atrocity that Japan has never answered for.
@@peterashby-saracen3681Then take solace in the nukes.
They caused their country to do the unthinkable and break with their honour code of fight to death of every man, woman and child and to never surrender.
What about him scared you so badly?
@@cartwrightworm1317 - really? He was a rather short well spoken man, his English was impeccable. He even gave me an expensive brooch prior to my departure from Japan.
I went to his house, I met his wife and as he showed us around his house he spoke of furniture he had moved during the war. He had us at his home for a meal!!
The guy was a psychopath or at least a sociopath.
We were working on an artificial blood substitute. He took the first trial dose.
If you look at Wikipedia Unit 731 his pic is the second one!!
My Dad was a vet of WWII he was sent to Germany for the liberation.
A few months after I returned we saw a show 20/20 and it was about Unit 731 my Dad was very pissed!! The guy was a phuking traitor to humanity!!
Dr. Ryoichi Naito
My Dad was a hero and a physicist who worked for the Atomic Energy Commission.
Yes, we will be watching Oppenheimer the movie. He knew some of the men at Los Alamos National Laboratory who were part of the Manhattan Project, but he was Team Einstein, if you know what I mean.
@@Ocalif3you talk to much
I am Japanese but was raised in the US and Canada due to my parents business and after I returned to Japan in the early 80's I was harshly bullied for years during my schooldays because of my Japanese language was poor and fluent in English. Even though if I report to teachers or principles they were pretty ignorant, and then when those bulliers learned that reported they began to revenge me again. Japanese bully person in groups and is so harsh that many bullied schoolkids commit suicide even today which is the worst even in the leading G9 countries. Now seeing these atrocities I feel very very sorry for what our ancestors has done and I feel the resemblance for these evil Japanese and the recent school kids. Hope these bastard soldiers breaching the Geneva convention had paid the price, and now those bastard kids we see today who forced those poor bullied kids commit suicide should pay the price with their own life but unfortunately none of them are and most of them are having a normal life. Japan is collapsing and becoming crazy these days. Apologize for my lengthy text.
Well at least now you know why it's collapsing. They didn't reflect their past and that negligence always carries a heavy price. If they do not acknowledge their past, I fear they will be completely destroyed.
I have often felt that Japan is a very formal, strict, insular culture. Maybe this explains why they have bizarre horror movies and pornographic fetishes. It allows them to "release" feelings they have self-repressed in order to excel in school and at work.
we all suffer for the sins of our forefathers, no country is innocent. Japan didn’t just become that way for no reason, learning their history you can begin to understand how such a deep hatred for outsiders formed. Hatred always begets more hatred. We have to be better.
My grandma had a good school friend who was captured in the Philippines. He was in POW camps until finally being repatriated at the end of the war. He had been tortured extensively. When he got back, his body was skeletal, and his mind was gone.
Americans deliberately dropped atomic bombs on civilian towns rather than military facilities.
Japan was lucky to have a forgiving foe that restored their country to prosperity . Could you imagine what they would of done to humanity as a whole if by some small chance they won . We owe our veterans of all times the deepest debt of gratitude for stopping bad actors and keeping them in their place .
The other choice was to let Japan become part of Communist China.
America wasn't about to let that happen. After we Atomic bombed Japan, China would've moved right in & overtook them & they'd become Communist.
It’s “would have”, not “would of”. C’mon man, get a grip.
@@benedictdonald4338bruh you get a grip goddamn grammar police😂
@@benedictdonald4338 Make America Great Again . Joe Biden stole the election .
Are the Americans who killed 300,000 in the atomic bomb a hero?😇
I read a book titled Remember Corrigador that dealt with the conditions aboard an IJN transport ship loaded with primarily American POWs on their way to a prison camp. It's a very vivid account of what the POWs had to endure. Horrific story.
My Stepfather's brother died on the Bataan death march. Our family has is Purple Heart Medal. My Stepfather NEVER watched war movies because of this.
It’s most disturbing to me how proud Japanese soldiers were of themselves at the time. They committed disgusting atrocities and called themselves honorable. I’m reminded of a scene in the series The Pacific when Japanese soldiers in hiding amongst the jagged rocky terrain of the island they were on sent a woman and her baby towards approaching American troops with explosives strapped to her. After they were both turned into red mist the Japanese charged to take advantage of the shock they had just caused. Two nukes was mercy for those people. I can’t imagine how terrible life on this planet would be right now if they had succeeded with their utter nonsense.
Two nukes was mercy? Two nukes were a war crime.
@@tubthump You’ve got to be kidding me with that. Do you honestly believe the Japanese didn’t commit countless war crimes? How uneducated are you??
@@tubthump Japan was losing badly already. The allies knew just how difficult invasion of the mainland would have been. The Japanese had the upper hand for a land invasion but the allies had air superiority by then. If the nukes weren't used most of Japan would simply have been firebombed into submission causing more japanese deaths in the long run.
@@JohnDoeRando Thank you
Today, in Japan , you can find women's worn panties vending machines , this says ALL about this country ... there is something definitely sick about it
30 seconds into the video and I am supremely thankful that I grew up in the country and live in a small town.
When I was growing up, I knew lots of older people who'd fought in both world wars or lost relatives, and almost none of them ever talked about their experiences, but I remember there was a deep, visceral hatred of the Japanese for what they'd done, even if nobody ever explained it to me back then.
Don’t forget the movie Unbroken. Truly powerful
Indeed 👍
Also... 'The Railway Man'.
"Don't look at me! DON'T LOOK AT ME!"
Every soldier had a story, including one of a late family member of mine. As so many of yours do too. May they all be remembered forever. Respects from Canada.
Americans deliberately dropped atomic bombs on civilian towns rather than military facilities.
In the 70s there was a British TV series called Tenko that dealt with a group of European women who were interned by the japanese after the fall of various British and Dutch colonies. It was quite good
The local PBS channel here in NYC used to run many of these British series routinely, week after week, year after year. "Tenko" was one of those series and I must've watched the entire run, two or three times. I believe a film was also made, based on the show. I didn't bother to go see it, as I knew that it could never compare to the British TV series.
It was actually the 80s but it was a great series.
Yes l remember watching Tenko...it was good..
So it showed all the raping and depravities? Highly doubtful from the BBC...
You didn't mention the excellent movie " To End all Wars. It is very accurate, including the real life reunion between the main character of the movie and the single Japanese private who chanced execution to get food to the prisoners. I highly recommend it !
It was a dreadful shame that many more members of the Japanese army didn't act in a way similar to that brave Japanese private.
💯
Railway Men is good too
what a lovely world we live in
Not true
@@youknow2849 You must be pretty short for that to have gone so far over your head
@@NoMusiciansInMusicAnymore nah he was laying on his back😮
@@frankorobinson1540 "No, I was sitting on the bus" ~ YouKnow
And evil homo s sapiens is not improving,we'll do worse again.
Hard to imagine what the world would have become, if Germany, and Japan had won the war
I hate to think it but maybe the world would be better today if the Axis had Won.
@@treystephens6166 you are young. dont be rediculous
@@kevinbuda7087 I’m 34 and Dum.
@@treystephens6166 my buddy, you do remember how many people the nazis slaughtered, tortured, and imprisoned, right? no country is free from guilt of their many atrocities, but i'm pretty sure genocide should never be condoned.
Seriously
The thousands of p.o w that didn't make it to the prison camp they where the lucky ones
I worked for survivor of the march what he told us was horrible ,what he still couldn't talk about had to be much worse .
@@shawntailor5485 Do tell please, that history should not be forgotten.
@@shawntailor5485 Please tell.
@@shawntailor5485 yes tell. Don’t let the Japanese get off the hook 🪝
@@treystephens6166 I was young , ger , 1994 ish , it was hot out and I was whining on the job , after I pissed this old boy off his wife proceeded to tell me he was on the March, he didnt call it the death march because he was one of the few that lived . Later he told us a crazed jap officer stabbed the man behind him and the man in front of him ,along with many others , in the bladders with a his bayonet while laughing his ass off . He said folks dont understand why soldiers hated them so much for so long ,but that this was just the very least of what he went through and never expected to survive the ordeal . His wife said he weighed 97 pounds when he was rescued and all he wanted was a weapon back in his hands but was so week he could hardly walk but still wanted to fight those bastards because of thier cruelty now more than the fact they were the enemy. Some find peace , some don't.
Don't forget that they've taken little to no responsibility for all of their crimes during WW2
Don't forget America is very very particular paying reparations.
@@terrytarver690 Reparations? For what?
@@terrytarver690 What are you even talking about?
I havent forgotten..........
@@ricksimmons9790 Natives? Panama? Grenada? Iraq? Lybia? Nah USA will never be charged of crimes because they are good guys.
“The Narrow Road to the Deep North” by Richard Flanagan was about the real horrors of the POW-built railway, and how survivors coped with their trauma after they were liberated.
A great number of Japanese camp commanders were put on trial, after the war, for their atrocious treatment of prisoners. One in particular called just one witness in his defense; the senior officer of the prisoners, who said the commanderr did everything he could with what was available.
Yeah, everything he could do to kill as many prisoners as possible.
Americans are not taking responsibility for this.
@@user-wy8cs2dk1h
Americans take responsibility for the demons of their past all the time. Japan does not admit how evil they were in WW2.
@@Lilliathi If you are responsible for the wrongdoings, give back the Indians, their land and property, and go back to Europe. You can't do that anymore. Japan is the same way.
@@Lilliathi Also, I haven't heard any news about Japanese soldiers apologizing for abusing prisoners of war, assaulting women, and dropping the atomic bomb.
My career army father fought across the Pacific and was with MacArthur when he returned to the Philippines. He always referred to the general as "that sonuvabitch MacArthur" and was happy that Truman fired him.
If you want to see a really telling movie about what happened with the Japanese, POW's & civilians during WWII you should watch the black & white movie "A Town Like Alice". Most of the other movie's mentioned pale in comparison to this movie & it will stay with you forever.
The film was an accurate adaptation of Neville Shute's book of that name.
My remote will respond to that movie title soon or I'll kill it , lol .
I finally got it On Demand so to speak . Damn AI was being difficult .
Watch To end all wars with Robert Carlyle and mark srtong. Fantastic and heartwrenching film about japanese Pow camps
This video popped up in my recommended today, I clicked but expected a video similar to other history channels. How wrong I was. I really enjoyed this and learnt something new. You have a new sub here.
1944 my Grandpa killed by Japanese as a POW in Burma.
Got dang right
I'm so sorry
If history has taught me anything it is that you really, really, really, dont want to be a prisoner of the Japanese
Do you know Bando Prisoner of War Camp? It is the kindest facility in the world made by Japanese people.
tell that to JohnnySomali
The Japanese were a menace 😫😤😤
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But because of America they got off Scott free
They still are , I’m married to one .
@@dannywlm63 😂😂😂
@Danny WLM true those mongerals got away like me. If I could dream then I would have all the Imperial Japanesse Military of WW2 used as landfill & fertiliser.
My Great Grandad was forced to work on the Bridge as a POW, and when he saw the Bridge on the River Kwai years later, he chuckled and left the room, saying it was ridiculous and didnt even scratch the surface of the horrors.
I enjoyed this very much, thank you for posting it.
The reason the POW ships were not marked is because the Japanese were non signatures of the Geneva Convention (which included the ship marking clause).
Just thought I'd set the record straight - thanks again!
In 2023 everyone is still waiting for Japanese apologies and financial compensation. Germany did so much better in that respect. I bet the horrors are not even mentioned in Japanese history book and school history lessons.
That was very tough to watch. RIP all those who lost their lives and to those who survived and to those who survived but lived with the memories the rest of their lives. I am not sure how many soldiers from the time are still alive but I wish them peace. 🫡💔🕊️
Thank you for sharing another day in history..💖
We should honestly talk more abt this and the atrocities of the world war in Asia, too much have been abt Germany that im shocked and never knew things like this have even happened in the continent i was born in. In my opinion, many know abt what the Japanese did, but not enough that they'll still side with Japan and praise them.
You should take a trip to kanchanaburi in Thailand and visit the river kwai bridge war museum that and the cemetery will give you a good insight
My grandmother never knew what happened to her son who was RAF we don't know any thing his plane went down over Japanese shipping we don't know if any of the survived and where killed in the plane or killed later she waited till the day she died the crew where Irish and Canadian i hope they died in the plane,and never fell victim like these poor souls
The allies who sunk unmarked Japanese ships unlawfully carrying POWs should never feel responsible for their deaths. That was the Japanese fault, not theirs. May they rest in peace and in God's arms.
My grandpa was a sailor in the Pacific on a liberty ship. They would offload at temporary ports the Seabees set up after the Marines took an island. Years after he died, my grandmother told me the only thing he ever mentioned about those islands were how a lot of indigenous islanders could be seen in the distance jumping off cliffs, entire families. They didn't understand that the US forces weren't going to kill them, all they could see was men in uniforms, tanks, guns, and had been tormented by the Japanese. She said seeing that haunted him for the rest of his life
I work on the museum ship USS Pampanito, a WW2 Balao class submarine. During her 3rd war patrol in the South China Sea, she and her Wolfpack attacked a convoy heading for Japan. Pampanito unfortunately sank the hell ship Rakuyō Maru, transporting, 1350 British and Australian pows. While a handful were rescued by the Japanese, a vast majority were left to drown or die of thirst in the sea. 3 days after the attack, Pampanito came back to the area and found survivors clinging to wreckage. She managed to rescue 73 men from the sea, the rescue was even captured on the boat’s 16mm film camera.
The timeline of events from the POWs being selected to go to Japan, to their rescue and repatriation is all documented in the book “Return From The River Kwai”. It’s a hard read with some of the accounts of barbarity on display, but I highly recommend it
One of my great great uncle's (great grandfather's brother) was in a hospital in The Philippines fighting malaria during WW2 and was one of the handful of sailors that survived the Bataan death march
There's another film, A Town Called Alice. It's a riveting true account of women under Japanese control. An excellent, if not an easy film to watch.
Channels like this are so important... Humanity seems incapable of learning from it's history but on the small hope that we CAN learn... Can improve.. Can stop committing atrocities - can over come the INDUSTRIAL MILITARY COMPLEX... it's channels like this, that will motivate that change... i hope... 🤞
This is why we must remember the past and make sure it never happens again.
Unfortunately there's a few leaders on this planet that couldn't care less.
I can totally understand why these surviving soldiers couldn't talk about what happened. it's too painful im sure, and digging up those awful memories that were buried so long ago
There's a saying, he who is silent are the ones that are really suffering the most
My grandfather was on a hell ship and then a pow in Japan, the stories he told me are horrible. My uncle was on one of the ships bombed by our own military and he died on that ship.
A friend of my father's called Frank Brimelow wrote a book about his life as a Japanese POW. I have read many books about war and prison, but this was one of the best I ever read.
My grandfather was on the Hofuku Maru (Tofuku Maru), Oryoko Maru, and then the Enoura Maru luckily escaping that bombing by being taken off the ship the day before , he was then boarded into a smaller ship to be taken to Japan, the stories of the hellships is never spoken enough about
My grandfather an his 5 brothers were in WWII and great grandfather was in WWI.
My grandfather was a potato peeler in one of the army tents saw no action and came home to to make the best mashed potatoes in history. 😂
Sadly, his brother saw too much and became an alcoholic and homeless.
His brain couldn't handle what he saw.
He never spoke of it.
Strange, he always went everywhere to see family. My mother even had to hide all the alcohol wipes in the house.
He was such a beautiful and gentle soul with children especially.
Movie wise you forgot to mention Unbreakable.
Truly a great movie
Unbroken. Unbreakable is the Bruce Willis, Samuel Jackson movie, which you are correct. A truly great movie!!!! Best superhero movie ever
The men who unknowingly killed their own allies will never forgive themselves, even if they know, the whole world knows, and the dead also know, it was never their intention to do so. God save their souls.
Everybody: Japan committed endless atrocities.
Japan: hmm? Oh......nah
E: you did tho
J: nah
E: yep
J: mmm....nah
E: there's pictures
J: ok maybe little bit
E: more
J: nah
Why is it you can't read or listen to anything about Japan during WWII without extreme torture being involved?
Informative information, thank you. Shocking and horrible.
You'd think the Japanese were smart enough to put "POW" on their food ships
They weren't that bright
Just put "POW" on every ship
Youd think we would have learned from this .
10000 years out of caves,we act like were still in them
Humans. DO. NOT. LEARN.
My great grandfather was a sailor in dutch east india and no one knows what ever happened to him, he did come back but he never spoke a word of what happened and would stonewall if asked about it, knowing what happened to prisoners of war of the Japanese I can only imagine the horror he went through
Sister of the picture funny, the camps for Japanese in America weren't bad, and they were treated pretty well considering what they did to us...my Dad went through WWII before and after..He hated the Japanese so much it was scary...the more I find out, the more I see why.....
The death rate of Japanese-Americans in the internment camps was no different than that of the general population.
Very interesting and engaging. You don't hear much of this side of the War. Thanks.
The Japanese were an incredibly worthy foe. In the west when our boys left for war we would say something along the line of “we love you, come home safe and kick some ass!” In japan it was more like “it’s an honor that you can die for the empire!” They were not expected to come home and would easily take suicide over dying at the hands of the enemy.
Committing suicide is cowardly. Dying in battle is bravery.
Please know "Honne" and "Tatemae"
Yeah Attacking Pearl Harbor, death marches etc. Such a worthy foe 😂😂 lmao. They sure always claimed that they were all about Honor. Haven't even touched Nanking yet. They deserved the 2 nukes they caught 100%
@@Kylorenz710 Then China, which caused Tongzhou mutiny, should drop the atomic bomb.
The attack on Pearl Harbor is worse than the deception of American Indians.
Do you think Sandakan Death March was the act of a "worthy" opponent ?
So horribly tragic that many were killed by friendly fire. My heart just aches.
the japanese during ww2 were something else man, so intensely inhumane. UK, US and German POWs etc were treated fairly well during ww2 within europe
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The US attacked survivors of the Laconia, and the Soviets attacked refugee ships in the North Sea, such as the Wilhelm Gustav. Not an unusual occurrence, to attack PoW ships.
2 nukes wasn't near enough for the devastation they did. not just allies, a lot of other asians ,islanders suffered their cruelty. I don't recall them getting a Nuremberg trial for their war crimes.
We didn't drop nukes to 'punish' the Japanese. The nukes only killed innocent civilians. The type of mentality you have, this eye for an eye mentality, is exactly what leads to the atrocities mentioned in this video.
The US committed the most war crimes of all.
Yeah, those nukes definitely feel a little more personal now.
Japan’s most heinous crime is still anime.
For sure.
you sound like miyazaki
Wow 😢 War is just the worst thing ever this video should be shown in schools and military camps for the new recruits and the stories in this comment section has some interesting and very emotional stories 😢. I Definitely Thank each and Everyone of our Veterans from the past to the precedent and I Thank their families ❤ God Bless you All and Happy Holidays.
“To End All Wars” is another great depiction
So where are the reparations from Japan and the people they commited atrocities towards?
japan paid Burma, China, Indonesia and Philippines the equivalent of 3 billion dollars in reparations. The Soviets and US declined payments. Although Japan pays about 4 billion dollars a year to house and maintain US forces on Japan for the last 50 years.
@terryhughes7349 Neat thank you stranger ^_^
Stories like these are why we should never feel guilty about using nukes on them.
@Homie They helped raise these monsters. Or, ok, let's just keep on letting them do this to our sons and daughters in our military. All war is ugly. Look at the atrocities that Russia is doing today to the women, children and men in Ukraine. Animals.
@Homie Approximately 100,000 civilians died during the battle of Manila in February, 1945. The soldiers were merciless. 100,000 is pretty close to the number of civilians who died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What did the women, children and old people of the Philippines have to do with any of it?
every participant on every side of every war is the bad guy.
Can you imagine sinking a ship with your own soldiers on it??!! My God.
Friendly fire happens very often unfortunately.
Incidents are well hidden, and revealed many years later.
The atomic bomb was the only language they understood at that time.
South Korea’s been occupied by Japan for more than 45 years. They did the horrible horrible things
The Officers at the top knew many of the ships had POW but didn't want to stop the blockade of Japan.
To this day, I don't think that Japan understands how lucky they were to be fighting a largely humane foe.
Thanks for bring attention to Japanese War Crimes. Everyone talks about American and German war crimes, but rarely talk about Japan and other non white countries.
My dead grandfather was a tank gunner in WWII. He hated the Japanese so much that whenever he saw a Japanese-made car in a lot he would scratch it with a key.
Vandalism. Very mature behavior. I wonder if he did the same to German cars. Also, every single import from former enemy countries. He should've been consistent.
He consistently scratched Japanese cars.
@@ARedMotorcycle - your statement makes no sense.