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http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0465068367?pc_redir=1397749247&robot_redir=1
This is a really well written book on the subject.
> Germany and America were at Total war during ww2 and yet the Americans didn't indiscriminately kill civilians, did they?
Yes, they did.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
>And it's also not the reason why the Japanese chose to kill the Chinese so freely. The Japanese killed the Chinese for the same reasons the Germans were killing Jews. Ethnic cleansing. Japan thought of Asia as their realm. The same way Germany saw Europe as rightfully theirs.
That's not wholly accurate. According to The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang, the Japanese mindset was that they were the nation most capable of Protecting Asia against Western Imperialism, and they had spent the last several decades preparing to do so. They were playing the part of heroes in their own minds. Part of what they needed to do, however, was Annex china (who at the time were an ass-backwards almost pre-industrial nation) because China has/had some of the best farmlands in the world. Japan's official line was that they would better be able to utilize China's farmlands, since the Chinese were nearly a century behind Japan in development at the time and were portrayed as useless idiots. Also, it would help them grow their Japanese Empire to keep Asia safe from the west. Because Japan didn't want European empires in their backyard.
So the propaganda gets a bit out of hand, everyone gets riled up, and next thing you know you have Japanese officers engaging in contests to see who can execute 100 Chinese civilians the fastest with Katanas and raping women before tearing their unborn infants from their still-living bodies with bayonet points.
Because hey, the Chinese were inferior and were subhuman, right? lower than dogs. That's why they had to invade China! To protect them.
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dont forget, the japanese killed more people per hour then the germans managed at auswitz. They did it mostly with sword and bayonet.
source the rape of nanking
"The Rape of Nanking" by Iris Chang. I had always known that the Japanese were ruthless during the 30s-40s, but this book was a tremendous eye opener on the absolute lawless bloodthirst of that era. A complete collapse of anything even resembling humanity.
Submission Statement: Probably most of us think of Japan as a modern, advanced country with a rich culture... Many may also think about manga, anime or video games. It’s likely that most of us have a very positive image of the Land of the Rising Sun. So much so that if they ask us about their history, we’ll mostly think about Geishas, Samurai and perhaps the United States’ double nuclear attack. Perhaps we’ll think about Pearl Harbor. But do we really know how the Japanese Empire was? Do you know exactly what this meant for the Far East? Why do you think that the countries that Japan victimized, such as China and Korea, are still very sensitive about this issue?
Folks, during the decades of the 30s and 40s the Japanese Empire perpetrated some of the greatest atrocities in history against the life and dignity of human beings.
Related Recommended book by Jordan Peterson: The Rape of Nanking.
There was another version with that title printed years ago, but the one I'm referring to is this one published in 2012.
It's pretty eye-opening.
I've just ordered Christopher Browning's Ordinary Men: Amazon
The Rape of Nanking: Amazon
FYI, I just provided links so you could look them up quickly - I don't have any Amazon affiliation or anything.
I should have waited to finalize my order, because now I want to buy the book you mentioned as well.
Try this
It’s not about just the Bolsheviks, but this was a fascinating book on the vast murder that took place in Eastern Europe in the 30s and 40s. Wash it down with something happy, I made the mistake of reading it back-to-back with this and became pretty depressed for a few weeks.
The Rape of Nanking seems fairly easy Here and Here, though I don't know about the Soldiers of the Sun
edit: also available
I will say my library doesn't have Soldiers of the Sun but does have Rape of Nanking.
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
https://smile.amazon.com/Rape-Nanking-Forgotten-Holocaust-World/dp/0465068367/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1499912412&sr=8-1&keywords=the+rape+of+nanking
This isn't exactly what you're after, but I have this in my queue thanks to Peterson's Book list.
"Rape of Nanking"
https://www.amazon.com/Rape-Nanking-Forgotten-Holocaust-World/dp/0465068367
Read "The Rape of Nanking"... it goes into great detail about the psychology of the Japanese during the period. http://www.amazon.com/The-Rape-Nanking-Forgotten-Holocaust/dp/0465068367/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=1A98RYPJ5J2HS03G2CGH
>The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II, by Iris Chang (2012)
https://www.amazon.com/Rape-Nanking-Forgotten-Holocaust-World/dp/0465068367
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It's not really about the number, the reason that the holocaust is such a big part of history is because it represents one of the few times in modern history when one group of people took large-scale and comprehensive steps to try to eliminate another large group of people, and because the perpetrators were from one of the most culturally and scientifically advanced nations in the world. The Armenian and Rwandan genocides deserve to be taught alongside the holocaust as well, but there are a number of reasons why neither has quite caught the same amount of attention - mostly that in both cases it is easy for people to write it off as savages being savages. It is much harder for westerners to do that with the German people than it is to do that to with the Turkish or Hutu peoples. The Holocaust is also much more extensively documented (especially in English) than other massacres of the same size or scope.
It is also well worth studying the Rape of Nanking and other Japanese war crimes, the Soviet atrocities in WW2, other allied atrocities in WW2, the horror of the Vietnam War, the Soviet-Afghan War, American slavery and treatment of natives, the Holomodor, colonialism in Africa, and many other times when governments or large groups of people have taken committed gross violations of human rights. The Holocaust has captured the world's attention to the evil that man is capable of, and that's a good thing.
A good book to learn more about what the Japanese did to the chinese is called the "Rape of Nanking" by Iris Chang. It's a good book quite gruesome though. I apologize if this was posted in the comments already, but I thought I'd throw it in since so few people know about what happened in China at the hands of the Japanese.
You're kidding about believing the "Asia for Asians" propaganda, right? If you're up for some light reading, you'll see how the Axis Japanese bit off more than they could chew and translated their Bushido moral code into unsuspecting Asians--you know most of the horrifying war crimes that happen next--in Iris Chang's the Rape of Nanking. Most of the atrocities depicted were culled from Imperial Japan's occupation of China.
The Rape of Nanking
[http://www.amazon.com/The-Rape-Nanking-Forgotten-Holocaust/dp/0465068367]