How the Japanese Army treated prisoners of war in World War II

Will force the prisoners of war to build some trenches, bridges, roads. Others will be used as targets for death games (drumming to kill), and others will be used as experiments for poison gas experiments.

The first is about the disposal of prisoners. Although the Germans killed many Jews, they were not brutal to the Caucasian race. After the Normandy landings, the Allied forces did not progress well in many places, often with wounded soldiers and difficult to transfer, what should be done?

Allied commanders often resorted to concentrating wounded soldiers in a place where the Germans could easily find them. When they were discovered by the Germans, the Germans would use all available vehicles to transport them to the hospital for treatment and do everything possible to treat them.

The Allies, on the other hand, treated their prisoners in a very different way from the Germans. Wherever the U.S. military went, if it encountered a large-scale surrender, the number of prisoners alive was relatively large (often with company-level units as the boundary), and basically did not kill too many prisoners. But there is also a great deal of uncertainty, and whether or not to kill prisoners or how many to kill depends on the mood of the soldiers guarding them.

If the U.S. military guarding the captives is not happy, they will kill a few unpleasant ones. But if he was happy, he would give the German prisoners a cigarette. Conversely, if a single or a small number of German troops surrendered, they were generally executed on the spot or brought back for execution.

The U.S. military often felt that being followed by a few German soldiers was a burden. The Soviet army was more brutal than the American army. Usually even the following are immediately or brought back to be put to death.

As a result, an interesting phenomenon emerged in the latter part of World War II: the Germans preferred to surrender to the Allies on the Western Front rather than to the Soviets. From this, we can see that the actions of the Allies and the Soviet army are the same as those of the enemy, why is there such a big difference from the German army?

Of course, we can also see the elements between peoples...

In the end, I treated them well. As much as we hated them, they were properly housed out of humanitarianism.

China treated Japan with proper treatment and sent them all back to Japan after trial.

After Japan's surrender in World War II, we also rescued these 2.7 million Japanese prisoners of war in the spirit of humanitarianism, and it can be seen that we Chinese are really very caring.

There are two typical stories of the Japanese army abusing prisoners in World War II, one is the death march of Bataan and the other is the construction of the Thai-Burma Railway. The Bataan Death March killed 15,000 British and American prisoners of war on the way to the forced march, and the Thai-Burma Railway, which was also forced by the Japanese army to build British and American prisoners of war, was also known as the "Death Railway" due to the high number of prisoners of war deaths.

I don't care what the Japanese do!

The era of World War II can be said to be a very cruel historical stage, and it is definitely a stain on the history of our civilization, when Japan was a powerful country, which brought indelible harm to the people of China and even many countries, and what I did not expect was that the United States was also among them. Although the relationship between the United States and Japan was very close at that time, they also carried out devastating murder and torture of the United States, and the way they tortured American female captives was very cruel!

To be honest, Japan at that time was really hateful, and the way it treated the captives was even more cruel! Men and women, young and old, are not immune to their violence, not only for the methods of female soldiers, but also for all prisoners, people are gritting their teeth when they hear it, but what they did not expect is that the United States has also become a target of abuse.

At that time, Japan was already the hegemon of Asia, but he was not satisfied with the status quo, and even extended his evil hand to the United States, attacking Pearl Harbor in the United States in 1941.

After this incident, the United States officially declared war on Japan, saying that the opportunity was reserved for those who were prepared, and the US military did not stand firm and the Japanese army came prepared, so in the war in the Pacific, the US military did not bargain, but suffered everything. Their own soldiers were also captured by Japan, and the Chinese know how cruel Japan's methods of captivity are to prisoners, so is it the same for American prisoners?

I really can't figure out why Japan always has so many ways to mistreat prisoners? Even every way will be recorded, which makes people look creepy and inhumane. Japan's treatment of female captives of the U.S. military is even more unacceptable, in addition to the ** female captives of the U.S. military, after having fun and not liking to play, they also imitated our ancient charcoal burning punishment, first use a soldering iron to roast red on the fire, and then put it on the body of the female captive, and the meat on the body will be cooked in an instant, so that the female captives of the U.S. military screamed miserably.

And this kind of punishment is only one of many punishments, thinking that it may be precisely because of this behavior completely angered the US military, in the later stage of World War II, the United States also used not very glorious means in order to take revenge, two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, 300,000 people were killed and injured in an instant, and all the buildings were turned into a pile of ashes, although the war has left us, but such a crime is deeply imprinted in our impression, but Japan chose to lose memory instantly!

Participation in forced labor in the territory of the USSR and their placement in various branches of production of the state.

On August 23, 1945, the People's Commissariat of Defense headed by Stalin issued a secret order to the Soviet Far Eastern Army on the "Resolution No. 9 898 on the Acceptance and Placement of Japanese Prisoners of War for Labor", stipulating: "Accept 500,000 Japanese prisoners of war to participate in forced labor in the Soviet Union, place them in various branches of production of the country, and take appropriate measures to arrange their production and life." ”

The official number of Japanese prisoners of war was also announced: due to malnutrition, adaptation to the climate, and epidemics of disease, a large number of prisoners of war died in the Japanese prisoner of war camps in the winter of 1945 and 1946.

According to the data, "3,385 people died in December 1945 and 5,168 in January 1946. Among them, malnutrition accounted for 48 2 deaths, pneumonia accounted for 11 9 percent, and typhus fever accounted for 8 4 percent. After that, the Soviet Union began to repatriate Japanese prisoners of war in batches.

At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union captured 600,000 Japanese prisoners of war and sent them all to Siberia to work as coolies, while the Soviet Union finally returned only 400,000 Japanese prisoners of war, and those 200,000 prisoners of war were buried forever on Siberian soil. In one winter, 55,000 Japanese prisoners of war died.

According to the memoirs of a Soviet veteran; Their company was ordered to accept 150 Japanese prisoners of war, and the company prepared lunch for 150 people, but the number of Japanese prisoners of war who were escorted over was unexpected.

At that time, the Soviet company commander dealt with it; The first 150 POWs were seated in place, and the rest were taken to the edge of the woods, where they were sent to Elysium with a barrage of machine guns. And the 150 prisoners of war for the rest of their lives had blank expressions, no sense of resistance, and were all frightened.

The Japanese do not dare to mention the issue of the 200,000 dead prisoners of war, and the 400,000 Japanese prisoners of war who returned have spread the horrors of the Soviets throughout the Japanese nation, so now the Japanese are respectful to Russia, which is frightening.

Sent to Siberia to do hard labor. These, you can see that Yuan sir's World War II is like that, and you will know it in the next volume.