Speaking about the crimes of Nazism during the Second World War, many often lose sight of the allies of the Nazis. Meanwhile, they became famous for their cruelty no less. Some of them - for example, the Romanian troops - actively participated in the Jewish pogroms. And Japan, which was an ally of Germany until the last day of the war, sullied itself with such cruelties, before which even some of the crimes of German fascism pale.
Cannibalism
Chinese and American prisoners of war repeatedly claimed that Japanese soldiers ate the bodies of prisoners and, worse, cut off pieces of flesh to eat from people who were still alive. Often the guards of the POW camps were malnourished, and they resorted to such methods to solve the problem of food. There are testimonies of those who saw the remains of prisoners with flesh removed from the bones for food, but not everyone still believes in this nightmarish story.
Experiments on pregnant women
At a Japanese military research center called Unit 731, captured Chinese women were raped to get pregnant and subjected to cruel experiments. Women were infected with infectious diseases, including syphilis, and monitored to see if the disease would pass to the child. Women sometimes had a pelvicectomy to see how the disease affected the unborn child. At the same time, no anesthesia was used during these operations: women simply died as a result of the experiment.
brutal torture
There are many cases when the Japanese mocked prisoners not for the sake of obtaining information, but for the sake of cruel entertainment. In one case, a wounded Marine taken prisoner had his genitals cut off and, after putting them in the soldier's mouth, they let him go to his own. This senseless cruelty of the Japanese shocked their opponents more than once.
sadistic curiosity
Japanese military doctors during the war not only carried out sadistic experiments on prisoners, but often did it without any, even pseudo-scientific purpose, but out of pure curiosity. These were the centrifuge experiments. The Japanese were interested in what would happen to the human body if it was rotated for hours in a centrifuge at great speed. Dozens and hundreds of prisoners fell victim to these experiments: people died from open bleeding, and sometimes their bodies were simply torn apart.
Amputations
The Japanese mocked not only prisoners of war, but also civilians and even their own citizens suspected of espionage. A popular punishment for espionage was the cutting off of some part of the body - most often the legs, fingers or ears. The amputation was carried out without anesthesia, but at the same time they carefully monitored so that the punished survived - and suffered until the end of his days.
Drowning
To immerse the interrogated person in water until he begins to choke is a well-known torture. But the Japanese went further. They simply poured streams of water into the captive's mouth and nostrils, which went straight into his lungs. If the prisoner resisted for a long time, he simply choked - with this method of torture, the score went literally for minutes.
Fire and Ice
In the Japanese army, experiments on freezing people were widely practiced. The limbs of the prisoners were frozen to a solid state, and then skin and muscles were cut from living people without anesthesia in order to study the effect of cold on tissue. In the same way, the effects of burns were studied: people were burned alive with skin and muscles on their arms and legs with burning torches, carefully observing the change in tissues.
Radiation
All in the same infamous part, 731 Chinese prisoners were driven into special chambers and subjected to powerful X-rays, observing what changes subsequently occurred in their bodies. Such procedures were repeated several times until the person died.
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Buried alive
One of the most cruel punishments for American prisoners of war for rebellion and disobedience was burial alive. A person was placed vertically in a pit and covered with a pile of earth or stones, leaving him to suffocate. The bodies of the allied troops punished in such a cruel way were discovered more than once.
Decapitation
Beheading an enemy was a common execution in the Middle Ages. But in Japan, this custom survived until the twentieth century and was applied to prisoners during the Second World War. But the worst thing was that by no means all the executioners were experienced in their craft. Often the soldier did not bring the blow with the sword to the end, or even hit the sword on the shoulder of the executed. This only prolonged the torment of the victim, whom the executioner stabbed with a sword until he reached his goal.
Death in the waves
This type of execution, quite typical for ancient Japan, was also used during the Second World War. The victim was tied to a pole dug in the tide zone. The waves slowly rose until the person began to choke, so that finally, after much torment, he would drown completely.
The most painful execution
Bamboo is the fastest growing plant in the world, it can grow by 10-15 centimeters per day. The Japanese have long used this property for an ancient and terrible execution. A man was chained with his back to the ground, from which fresh bamboo shoots sprouted. For several days, the plants tore the body of the sufferer, dooming him to terrible torment. It would seem that this horror should have remained in history, but no: it is known for certain that the Japanese used this execution for prisoners during the Second World War.
Welded from the inside
Another section of the experiments carried out in part 731 is experiments with electricity. Japanese doctors shocked prisoners by attaching electrodes to the head or to the body, immediately giving a large voltage or exposing the unfortunate to a lower voltage for a long time ... They say that with such an impact, a person had the feeling that he was being roasted alive, and this was not far from the truth: some the bodies of the victims were literally boiled.
Bamboo is one of the fastest growing plants on earth. Some of its Chinese varieties can grow as much as a meter in a day. Some historians believe that the deadly bamboo torture was used not only by the ancient Chinese, but also by the Japanese military during World War II.
How it works?
1) Live bamboo sprouts are sharpened with a knife to make sharp “spears”;
2) The victim is suspended horizontally, back or belly over a bed of young pointed bamboo;
3) Bamboo grows rapidly in height, pierce into the skin of the martyr and sprout through his abdominal cavity, the person dies very long and painfully.
2. Iron Maiden
Like torture with bamboo, many researchers consider the "iron maiden" a terrible legend. Perhaps these metal sarcophagi with sharp spikes inside only frightened the defendants, after which they confessed to anything. The "iron maiden" was invented at the end of the 18th century, i.e. already at the end of the Catholic Inquisition.
How it works?
1) The victim is stuffed into the sarcophagus and the door is closed;
2) The spikes driven into the inner walls of the "iron maiden" are rather short and do not pierce the victim through, but only cause pain. The investigator, as a rule, in a matter of minutes receives a confession, which the arrested person only has to sign;
3) If the prisoner shows fortitude and continues to be silent, long nails, knives and rapiers are pushed through special holes in the sarcophagus. The pain becomes simply unbearable;
4) The victim never confesses to his deed, then she was locked in a sarcophagus for a long time, where she died from blood loss;
5) In some models of the “iron maiden”, spikes were provided at eye level in order to quickly poke them out.
3. Skafism
The name of this torture comes from the Greek "skafium", which means "trough". Skafism was popular in ancient Persia. During the torture, the victim, most often a prisoner of war, was devoured alive by various insects and their larvae that were not indifferent to human flesh and blood.
How it works?
1) The prisoner is placed in a shallow trough and wrapped in chains.
2) He is force-fed with large amounts of milk and honey, which causes the victim to develop copious diarrhea that attracts insects.
3) A prisoner, shabby, smeared with honey, is allowed to swim in a trough in a swamp, where there are many hungry creatures.
4) Insects immediately start the meal, as the main dish - the living flesh of the martyr.
4. Terrible pear 
“There is a pear - you can’t eat it,” it is said about the medieval European tool for “educating” blasphemers, liars, women who gave birth out of wedlock, and gay men. Depending on the crime, the tormentor put the pear into the sinner's mouth, anus or vagina.
How it works?
1) The tool, consisting of pointed pear-shaped leaf-shaped segments, is thrust into the client's desired hole in the body;
2) The executioner slowly turns the screw on the top of the pear, while the “leaves”-segments bloom inside the martyr, causing hellish pain;
3) After the pear is opened, the completely guilty person receives internal injuries incompatible with life and dies in terrible agony, if he has not already fallen into unconsciousness.
5. Copper bull 
The design of this death unit was developed by the ancient Greeks, or to be more precise, the coppersmith Perill, who sold his terrible bull to the Sicilian tyrant Falaris, who simply adored torturing and killing people in unusual ways.
Inside the copper statue, through a special door, they pushed a living person.
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Falaris first tested the unit on its creator, the greedy Perilla. Subsequently, Falaris himself was roasted in a bull.
How it works?
1) The victim is closed in a hollow copper statue of a bull;
2) A fire is kindled under the belly of the bull;
3) The victim is roasted alive, like a ham in a frying pan;
4) The structure of the bull is such that the cries of the martyr come from the mouth of the statue, like a bull's roar;
5) Jewelry and amulets were made from the bones of the executed, which were sold in the bazaars and were in great demand ..
6. Torture by rats 
Rat torture was very popular in ancient China. However, we will look at the rat punishment technique developed by the leader of the 16th century Dutch Revolution, Didrik Sonoy.
How it works?
1) The naked martyr is laid on a table and tied;
2) Large, heavy cages with hungry rats are placed on the prisoner's stomach and chest. The bottom of the cells is opened with a special valve;
3) Hot coals are placed on top of the cages to stir up the rats;
4) Trying to escape from the heat of hot coals, rats gnaw their way through the flesh of the victim.
7. Cradle of Judas 
The Cradle of Judas was one of the most painful torture machines in the arsenal of the Suprema - the Spanish Inquisition. The victims usually died from the infection, due to the fact that the peaked seat of the torture machine was never disinfected. The cradle of Judas, as an instrument of torture, was considered "loyal", because it did not break bones and did not tear ligaments.
How it works?
1) The victim, whose hands and feet are tied, is seated on the top of a pointed pyramid;
2) The top of the pyramid pierces the anus or vagina;
3) With the help of ropes, the victim is gradually lowered lower and lower;
4) Torture continues for several hours or even days, until the victim dies from powerlessness and pain, or from blood loss due to rupture of soft tissues.
8. Elephant trampling 
For several centuries, this execution was practiced in India and Indochina. The elephant is very easy to train and to teach him to trample the guilty victim with his huge feet is a matter of several days.
How it works?
1. The victim is tied to the floor;
2. A trained elephant is brought into the hall to crush the head of the martyr;
3. Sometimes before the "control in the head" animals squeeze the victims' arms and legs in order to amuse the audience.
9. Rack 
Probably the most famous, and unsurpassed in its kind, death machine called "rack". It was first experienced around 300 AD. on the Christian martyr Vincent of Zaragoza.
Anyone who survived the rack could no longer use their muscles and turned into a helpless vegetable.
How it works?
1. This instrument of torture is a special bed with rollers at both ends, on which ropes were wound, holding the wrists and ankles of the victim. When the rollers rotated, the ropes stretched in opposite directions, stretching the body;
2. Ligaments in the hands and feet of the victim are stretched and torn, bones pop out of the joints.
3. Another version of the rack was also used, called strappado: it consisted of 2 pillars dug into the ground and connected by a crossbar. The interrogated person was tied with his hands behind his back and lifted by the rope tied to his hands. Sometimes a log or other weights were attached to his bound legs. At the same time, the hands of a person raised on a rack twisted back and often came out of their joints, so that the convict had to hang on twisted arms. They were on the rack from several minutes to an hour or more. This type of rack was used most often in Western Europe.
4. In Russia, a suspect raised on a rack was beaten with a whip on the back, and “applied to the fire”, that is, they drove burning brooms over the body.
5. In some cases, the executioner broke the ribs of a person hanging on a rack with red-hot tongs.
10. Paraffin in the bladder
A savage form of torture, the actual use of which has not been established.
How it works?
1. Candle paraffin was rolled out by hand into a thin sausage, which was injected through the urethra;
2. Paraffin slipped into the bladder, where it began to precipitate solid salts and other filth.
3. The victim soon developed kidney problems and died of acute kidney failure. On average, death occurred in 3-4 days.
11. Shiri (camel cap)
A monstrous fate awaited those whom the Zhuanzhuans (the union of nomadic Turkic-speaking peoples) took into their slavery. They destroyed the memory of the slave with a terrible torture - by putting Shiri on the head of the victim. Usually this fate befell young guys captured in battles.
How it works?
1. First, the slaves shaved their heads, carefully scraping out every hair under the root.
2. The executioners slaughtered the camel and skinned its carcass, first of all, separating its heaviest, densest part.
3. Having divided the neck into pieces, it was immediately pulled in pairs over the shaved heads of the prisoners. These pieces, like a plaster, stuck around the heads of slaves. This meant putting on wide.
4. After putting on the width, the neck of the doomed was shackled in a special wooden block so that the subject could not touch his head to the ground. In this form, they were taken away from crowded places so that no one would hear their heartbreaking cries, and they were thrown there in an open field, with hands and feet tied, in the sun, without water and without food.
5. The torture lasted 5 days.
6. Only a few remained alive, and the rest died not from hunger or even from thirst, but from unbearable, inhuman torments caused by drying out, shrinking rawhide camel skin on the head. Inexorably shrinking under the rays of the scorching sun, the width squeezed, squeezing the shaved head of a slave like an iron hoop. Already on the second day, the shaved hair of the martyrs began to sprout. Coarse and straight Asian hair sometimes grew into the rawhide, in most cases, finding no way out, the hair bent and again went into the scalp with its ends, causing even greater suffering. A day later, the man lost his mind. Only on the fifth day did the Zhuanzhuans come to check whether any of the prisoners had survived. If at least one of the tortured was caught alive, it was believed that the goal was achieved. .
7. The one who was subjected to such a procedure either died, unable to withstand the torture, or lost his memory for life, turned into a mankurt - a slave who does not remember his past.
8. The skin of one camel was enough for five or six widths.
12. Implantation of metals
A very strange means of torture-execution was used in the Middle Ages.
How it works?
1. A deep incision was made on a person’s legs, where a piece of metal (iron, lead, etc.) was placed, after which the wound was sutured.
2. Over time, the metal oxidized, poisoning the body and causing terrible pain.
3. Most often, the poor fellows tore the skin in the place where the metal was sewn up and died from blood loss.
13. Dividing a person into two parts
This terrible execution originated in Thailand. The most hardened criminals were subjected to it - mostly murderers.
How it works?
1. The accused is placed in a hoodie woven from lianas, and he is stabbed with sharp objects;
2. After that, his body is quickly cut into two parts, the upper half is immediately placed on a red-hot copper grate; this operation stops the bleeding and prolongs the life of the upper part of the person.
A small addition: This torture is described in the book of the Marquis de Sade "Justine, or the successes of vice." This is a small excerpt from a large piece of text where de Sade allegedly describes the torture of the peoples of the world. But why supposedly? According to many critics, the Marquis was very fond of lying. He had an extraordinary imagination and a couple of manias, so this torture, like some others, could be a figment of his imagination. But the field of this is not worth referring to Donatien Alphonse as Baron Munchausen. This torture, in my opinion, if it did not exist before, is quite realistic. If, of course, a person is drugged with painkillers before this (opiates, alcohol, etc.), so that he does not die before his body touches the bars.
14. Inflation with air through the anus
A terrible torture in which a person is pumped with air through the anus.
There is evidence that in Russia even Peter the Great himself sinned with this.
Most often, thieves were executed in this way.
How it works?
1. The victim was tied hand and foot.
2. Then they took cotton and stuffed the ears, nose and mouth of the poor fellow with it.
3. Bellows were inserted into his anus, with the help of which a huge amount of air was pumped into a person, as a result of which he became like a balloon.
3. After that, I plugged his anus with a piece of cotton.
4. Then they opened two veins above his eyebrows, from which all the blood flowed under great pressure.
5. Sometimes a bound person was placed naked on the roof of the palace and shot with arrows until he died.
6. Prior to 1970, this method was often used in Jordanian prisons.
15. Polledro
The Neapolitan executioners lovingly called this torture "polledro" - "colt" (polledro) and were proud that it was first used in their native city. Although history did not preserve the name of its inventor, they said that he was an expert in horse breeding and came up with an unusual device to pacify his horses.
Only a few decades later, lovers of mocking people turned the horse breeder's device into a real torture machine for people.
The machine was a wooden frame, similar to a ladder, the transverse rungs of which had very sharp corners so that when a person was placed on them with his back, they crashed into the body from the back of the head to the heels. The staircase ended with a huge wooden spoon, in which, like a cap, they put their heads.
How it works?
1. Holes were drilled on both sides of the frame and in the “bonnet”, ropes were threaded into each of them. The first of them was tightened on the forehead of the tortured, the last tied the big toes. As a rule, there were thirteen ropes, but for especially stubborn ones, the number was increased.
2. With special devices, the ropes were pulled tighter and tighter - it seemed to the victims that, having crushed the muscles, they dug into the bones.
16. Dead man's bed (modern China) 
The "dead man's bed" torture is used by the Chinese Communist Party mainly on those prisoners who try to protest their illegal imprisonment through a hunger strike. In most cases, these are prisoners of conscience who went to prison for their beliefs.
How it works?
1. The hands and feet of a naked prisoner are tied to the corners of the bed, on which, instead of a mattress, there is a wooden board with a hole cut out. A bucket for excrement is placed under the hole. Often, ropes are tightly tied to the bed and the body of a person so that he cannot move at all. In this position, a person is continuously from several days to weeks.
2. In some prisons, such as Shenyang City No. 2 Prison and Jilin City Prison, the police still place a hard object under the victim's back to increase the suffering.
3. It also happens that the bed is placed vertically and for 3-4 days a person hangs, stretched by the limbs.
4. Force-feeding is added to these torments, which is carried out with the help of a tube inserted through the nose into the esophagus, into which liquid food is poured.
5. This procedure is done mainly by prisoners on the orders of the guards, and not by health workers. They do it very rudely and not professionally, often causing more serious damage to the internal organs of a person.
6. Those who have gone through this torture say that it causes displacement of the vertebrae, joints of the arms and legs, as well as numbness and blackening of the limbs, which often leads to disability.
17. Collar (Modern China) 
One of the medieval tortures used in modern Chinese prisons is the wearing of a wooden collar. It is put on a prisoner, which is why he cannot walk or stand normally.
The collar is a board from 50 to 80 cm long, from 30 to 50 cm wide and 10 - 15 cm thick. There are two holes for the legs in the middle of the collar.
The shackled victim is difficult to move, must crawl into the bed, and usually must sit or lie down, as the upright position causes pain and injury to the legs. Without assistance, a person with a collar cannot go to eat or go to the toilet. When a person gets out of bed, the collar not only presses on the legs and heels, causing pain, but its edge clings to the bed and prevents the person from returning to it. At night, the prisoner is not able to turn around, and in winter, a short blanket does not cover his legs.
An even worse form of this torture is called "crawling with a wooden collar." The guards put a collar on the man and order him to crawl on the concrete floor. If he stops, he is hit on the back with a police baton. An hour later, fingers, toenails and knees bleed profusely, while the back is covered with wounds from blows.
18. Impaling 
Terrible wild execution that came from the East.
The essence of this execution was that a person was placed on his stomach, one sat on him to prevent him from moving, the other held him by the neck. A person was inserted into the anus with a stake, which was then driven in with a mallet; then they drove a stake into the ground. The weight of the body forced the stake to go deeper and deeper, and finally it came out under the armpit or between the ribs.
19. Spanish water torture 
In order to best perform the procedure of this torture, the accused was placed on one of the varieties of the rack or on a special large table with a rising middle part. After the victim's hands and feet were tied to the edges of the table, the executioner went to work in one of several ways. One of these methods was that the victim was forced to swallow a large amount of water with a funnel, then beaten on the inflated and arched stomach. Another form involved placing a rag tube down the victim's throat, through which water was slowly poured in, causing the victim to bloat and suffocate. If that wasn't enough, the tube was pulled out, causing internal damage, and then reinserted and the process repeated. Sometimes cold water torture was used. In this case, the accused lay naked on the table for hours under a jet of icy water. It is interesting to note that this kind of torture was regarded as light, and confessions obtained in this way were accepted by the court as voluntary and given to the defendants without the use of torture. Most often, these tortures were used by the Spanish Inquisition in order to knock out confessions from heretics and witches.
20. Chinese water torture
The person was seated in a very cold room, they tied him so that he could not move his head, and in complete darkness cold water was dripped on his forehead very slowly. After a few days, the person froze or went crazy.
21. Spanish chair 
This instrument of torture was widely used by the executioners of the Spanish Inquisition and was a chair made of iron, on which the prisoner was seated, and his legs were enclosed in stocks attached to the legs of the chair. When he was in such a completely helpless position, a brazier was placed under his feet; with hot coals, so that the legs began to slowly roast, and in order to prolong the suffering of the poor fellow, the legs were poured with oil from time to time.
Another version of the Spanish chair was also often used, which was a metal throne, to which the victim was tied and a fire was made under the seat, roasting the buttocks. The well-known poisoner La Voisin was tortured on such an armchair during the famous Poisoning Case in France.
22. GRIDIRON (Grate for torture by fire) 
Torture of Saint Lawrence on the gridiron.
This type of torture is often mentioned in the lives of saints - real and fictional, but there is no evidence that the gridiron "survived" until the Middle Ages and had at least little circulation in Europe. It is usually described as a simple metal grate, 6 feet long and two and a half wide, set horizontally on legs so that a fire can be built under it.
Sometimes the gridiron was made in the form of a rack in order to be able to resort to combined torture.
Saint Lawrence was martyred on a similar grid.
This torture was rarely resorted to. Firstly, it was easy enough to kill the interrogated person, and secondly, there were a lot of simpler, but no less cruel tortures.
23. Pectoral 
In ancient times, a pectoral was called a breast adornment for women in the form of a pair of carved gold or silver bowls, often strewn with precious stones. It was worn like a modern bra and fastened with chains.
By a mocking analogy with this decoration, the savage instrument of torture used by the Venetian Inquisition was named.
In 1885, the pectoral was red-hot and, taking it with tongs, put it on the chest of the tortured woman and held until she confessed. If the accused persisted, the executioners heated up the pectoral, which had been cooled down again by a living body, and continued the interrogation.
Very often, after this barbaric torture, charred, torn holes remained in place of the woman's breasts.
24. Tickle Torture 
This seemingly harmless influence was a terrible torture. With prolonged tickling, a person’s nerve conduction increased so much that even the lightest touch caused at first twitching, laughter, and then turned into terrible pain. If such torture was continued for a long time, then after a while spasms of the respiratory muscles arose and, in the end, the tortured person died from suffocation.
In the simplest version of torture, sensitive places were tickled by the interrogated either simply with hands or with hairbrushes and brushes. Rigid bird feathers were popular. Usually tickled under the armpits, heels, nipples, inguinal folds, genitals, women also under the breasts.
In addition, torture was often used with the use of animals that licked some tasty substance from the heels of the interrogated. A goat was often used, because its very hard tongue, adapted for eating herbs, caused very strong irritation.
There was also a form of beetle tickling, most common in India. With her, a small bug was planted on the head of the penis of a man or on the nipple of a woman and covered with half a nut shell. After some time, the tickling caused by the movement of the legs of an insect over a living body became so unbearable that the interrogated person confessed to anything.
25. Crocodile 
These tubular metal tongs "Crocodile" were red-hot and used to tear the penis of the tortured. At first, with a few caressing movements (often performed by women), or with a tight bandage, they achieved a stable hard erection and then the torture began.
26. Serrated crusher 
These serrated iron tongs slowly crushed the testicles of the interrogated.
Something similar was widely used in Stalinist and fascist prisons.
27. A terrible tradition. 
Actually, this is not torture, but an African rite, but, in my opinion, it is very cruel. Girls from 3-6 years old without anesthesia were simply scraped out the external genitalia.
Thus, the girl did not lose the ability to have children, but was forever deprived of the opportunity to experience sexual desire and pleasure. This rite is done “for the good” of women so that they will never be tempted to cheat on their husband
28. Blood Eagle 
One of the most ancient tortures, during which the victim was tied face down and his back was opened, the ribs were broken off at the spine and spread apart like wings. In Scandinavian legends, it is stated that during such an execution, salt was sprinkled on the wounds of the victim.
Many historians claim that this torture was used by pagans against Christians, others are sure that spouses convicted of treason were punished in this way, and still others claim that the bloody eagle is just a terrible legend. 
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Almost everyone knows about the atrocities of the Gestapo, but few have heard of the horrific crimes committed by the Kempeitai, the military police of the modernized Imperial Japanese Army, founded in 1881. The Kempeitai was an ordinary, unremarkable police force until the rise of Japanese imperialism after World War I. However, over time, it became a cruel body of state power, whose jurisdiction extended to the occupied territories, prisoners of war and conquered peoples. Kempeitai employees worked as spies and counterintelligence agents. They used torture and extrajudicial execution to maintain their power over millions of innocent people. When Japan surrendered, the Kempeitai leadership deliberately destroyed most of the documents, so we are unlikely to ever know the true scale of their atrocious crimes.
1. Killing POWs
After the Japanese occupied the Dutch East Indies, a group of about two hundred British troops found themselves surrounded on the island of Java. They did not give up and decided to fight to the last. Most of them were captured by the Kempeitai and subjected to severe torture. According to more than 60 witnesses who testified in The Hague court after the end of World War II, British prisoners of war were placed in bamboo cages (meter by meter) designed to transport pigs. They were transported to the coast in trucks and on open rail carts at air temperatures reaching 40 degrees Celsius.
The cages of British prisoners of war, who were suffering from severe dehydration, were then loaded into boats off the coast of Surabaya and thrown into the ocean. Some prisoners of war drowned, others were eaten alive by sharks. One Dutch witness, who at the time of the events described was only eleven years old, recounted the following:
“One day, around noon, at the hottest part of the day, a convoy of four or five army trucks drove down the street where we were playing, carrying so-called pig baskets, which were usually used to transport animals to the market or slaughterhouse. Indonesia was a Muslim country. Pork meat was supplied to the market for European and Chinese consumers. Muslims (inhabitants of the island of Java) were not allowed to eat pig meat, as they considered pigs to be "dirty animals" that should be avoided. To our great surprise, there were Australian soldiers in shabby military uniforms in the pig baskets. They were attached to each other. The condition of most of them left much to be desired. Many were dying of thirst and begging for water. I saw one of the Japanese soldiers open his fly and urinate on them. I was horrified then. I will never forget this picture. My father later told me that cages with prisoners of war were thrown into the ocean.”
Lieutenant General Hitoshi Imamura, commander of the Japanese troops stationed on the island of Java, was accused of crimes against humanity, but he was acquitted by the Hague court for lack of evidence. However, in 1946, an Australian military tribunal found him guilty and sentenced him to ten years in prison, which he spent in prison in the city of Sugamo (Japan).
2. Operation Suk Ching
After the Japanese captured Singapore, they gave the city a new name - Sionan ("Light of the South") - and switched to Tokyo time. They then initiated a program to purge the city of Chinese they considered dangerous or objectionable. Every Chinese male between the ages of 15 and 50 was ordered to appear at one of the registration points located throughout the island for interrogation, during which their political views and loyalty were determined. Those who took the test were stamped "Passed" on their face, hands, or clothing. Those who did not pass (they were communists, nationalists, members of secret societies, native English speakers, government employees, teachers, veterans and criminals) were detained. A simple decorative tattoo was reason enough for a person to be mistaken for a member of an anti-Japanese secret society.
Two weeks after interrogation, the detainees were sent to work on plantations or drowned in the coastal areas of Changi, Ponggol and Tanah Merah Besar. Methods of punishment varied according to the whims of the commanders. Some detainees were drowned in the sea, others were machine-gunned, others were stabbed to death or beheaded. After the end of World War II, the Japanese claimed to have killed or tortured to death about 5,000 people, however, according to local estimates, the number of victims was from 20 to 50 thousand people.
3 Sandakan Death Marches
The occupation of Borneo gave the Japanese access to valuable offshore oil fields, which they decided to protect by building a military airfield near the port of Sandakan. About 1,500 prisoners of war, mostly Australian soldiers, were sent to work in Sandakan for construction work, where they endured appalling conditions and received a meager ration of dirty rice and few vegetables. In early 1943, they were joined by British prisoners of war, who were forced to make an airstrip. They suffered from hunger, tropical ulcers and malnutrition.
The first few escapes made by prisoners of war led to repressions in the camp. Captured soldiers were beaten or locked up in cages and left in the sun for picking coconuts or bowing their heads low enough to a passing camp commander. People who were suspected of any illegal activities were brutally tortured by the Kempeitai police. They burned their skin with a lighter or pierced iron nails into their nails. One of the prisoners of war described the Kempeitai's methods of torture in the following way:
“They took a small wooden stick the size of a skewer and hammered it into my left ear with a hammer. When she damaged my eardrum, I passed out. The last thing I remembered was the excruciating pain. I came to my senses in just a couple of minutes - after they poured a bucket of cold water on me. My ear healed after a while, but I could no longer hear with it.”
Despite the crackdown, one Australian soldier, Captain L. S. Matthews, was able to establish an underground intelligence network, as well as organize the smuggling of medicines, food and money for prisoners and maintain radio contact with the Allies. When he was arrested, despite severe torture, he did not disclose the names of those who helped him. Matthews was executed by the Kempeitai in 1944.
In January 1945, the Allies bombed the Sandakan military base and the Japanese were forced to retreat to Ranau. There were three death marches between January and May. The first wave consisted of those who were considered to be in the best physical shape. They were loaded with backpacks with various military equipment and ammunition and forced to march through the tropical jungle for nine days, while food rations (rice, dried fish and salt) were given only four days. Prisoners of war who fell or stopped to rest for a while were shot or beaten to death by the Japanese. Those who managed to survive the death march were sent to build camps. The prisoners of war who were building an airfield near the port of Sandakan endured constant abuse and suffered from hunger. They were eventually forced to go south. Those unable to move were burned alive in the camp as the Japanese retreated. Only six Australian soldiers survived this death march.
4. Kikosaku
During the occupation of the Dutch East Indies, the Japanese had considerable difficulty in controlling the Eurasian population, people of mixed (Dutch and Indonesian) blood, who, as a rule, were influential people and did not support the Japanese version of Pan-Asianism. They were persecuted and repressed. Most of them faced a sad fate - the death penalty.
The word "kikosaku" was a neologism and derived from "kosen" ("land of the dead" or "yellow spring") and "saku" ("technique" or "maneuvering"). It is translated into Russian as “Operation Underworld”. In practice, the word "kikosaku" was used in relation to summary execution or unofficial punishment leading to death.
The Japanese believed that the Indonesians, who had mixed blood in their veins, or "kontetsu" as they derogatoryly called them, were loyal to the Dutch forces. They suspected them of espionage and sabotage. The Japanese shared the fears of the Dutch colonialists about the emergence of riots among the communists and Muslims. They concluded that the judicial process in investigating cases of lack of loyalty was ineffective and made it difficult to manage. The introduction of "kikosaku" allowed the Kempeitai to arrest people indefinitely without formal charges, after which they would be shot.
Kikosaku was used when Kempeitai employees believed that only the most extreme interrogation techniques would lead to a confession, even if the end result was death. The former Kempeitai member admitted in an interview with the New York Times: “At the mention of us, even babies stopped crying. Everyone was afraid of us. The prisoners who came to us met only one fate - death.
5 Jesselton Rebellion
The city known today as Kota Kinabalu was formerly known as Jesselton. It was founded in 1899 by the British North Borneo Company and served as a way station and source of rubber until it was captured by the Japanese in January 1942 and renamed Api. On October 9, 1943, rebellious ethnic Chinese and Suluks (the indigenous population of North Borneo) attacked the Japanese military administration, offices, police stations, hotels where soldiers lived, warehouses and the main pier. Despite being armed with hunting rifles, spears, and long knives, the insurgents managed to kill between 60 and 90 Japanese and Taiwanese occupiers.
Two army battalions and Kempeitai officers were sent to the city to suppress the uprising. Repression also affected the civilian population. Hundreds of ethnic Chinese were executed for suspicion of aiding or sympathizing with the rebels. The Japanese also persecuted representatives of the Suluk people who lived on the islands of Sulug, Udar, Dinawan, Mantanani and Mengalum. According to some estimates, the number of victims of repression was about 3,000 people.
6. Double tenth incident
In October 1943, a group of Anglo-Australian commandos ("Special Z") entered the Singapore harbor in an old fishing boat and kayaks. With the help of magnetic mines, they neutralized seven Japanese ships, including an oil tanker. They managed to go unnoticed, so the Japanese, based on information given to them by civilians and prisoners from Changi prison, decided that the attack was organized by British guerrillas from Malaya.
On October 10, the Kempeitai raided the Changi prison, ransacked it for a whole day, and arrested the suspects. A total of 57 people were arrested on suspicion of involvement in the harbor sabotage, including a bishop of the Church of England and a former British Colonial Secretary and Information Officer. They spent five months in prison cells, which were always brightly lit and not equipped with sleeping cots. During this time, they were starved and subjected to harsh interrogations. One suspect was executed for alleged involvement in the sabotage, and fifteen others died as a result of torture.
In 1946, a trial was held for those involved in what became known as the "Double Tenth Incident". British prosecutor Lieutenant-Colonel Colin Slimane described the Japanese mentality of the time as follows:
“I have to talk about actions that are an example of human depravity and degradation. What these people did, devoid of mercy, cannot be called otherwise than unspeakable horror ... Among the huge amount of evidence, I diligently tried to find some extenuating circumstance, a factor that would justify the behavior of these people, would raise the story from the level of pure horror and bestiality and ennobled it to the point of tragedy. I confess that I did not manage to do it.
7. Bridge House
After Shanghai was occupied by the Imperial Japanese Army in 1937, the Kempeitai secret police occupied the building known as the Bridge House.
The Kempeitai and the collaborationist reform government used the Yellow Road (Huangdao Hui), a paramilitary organization made up of Chinese criminals, to kill and carry out terrorist acts against anti-Japanese elements in foreign settlements. Thus, in an incident known as Kai Diaotu, the editor of a well-known anti-Japanese tabloid was beheaded. His head was then hung on a lamppost in front of the French concession, along with a banner reading "This is what awaits all anti-Japanese citizens."
After Japan's entry into World War II, the Kempeitai began to persecute the foreign population of Shanghai. People were arrested on charges of anti-Japanese activities or espionage and taken to Bridge House, where they were kept in iron cages and subjected to beatings and torture. The conditions were terrible: “Rats and lice were everywhere. No one was allowed to take a bath or shower. Bridge House was plagued with diseases ranging from dysentery to typhoid.”
The Kempeitai attracted particular attention from American and British journalists who reported on Japanese atrocities in China. John Powell, editor of the China Weekly Review, wrote: “When the interrogation began, the prisoner took off all his clothes and knelt before the jailers. If his answers did not satisfy the interrogators, he was subjected to beatings with bamboo sticks until blood began to ooze from the wounds. Powell managed to return to his homeland, where he soon died after an operation to amputate a leg affected by gangrene. Many of his colleagues were also seriously injured or went insane from the shock.
In 1942, with the assistance of the Swiss Embassy, some foreign citizens were released and returned to their homeland, who were detained and tortured in the Bridge House by Kempeitai officers.
8 Occupation Of Guam
Along with the islands of Attu and Kiska (the Aleutian archipelago), whose population was evacuated before the invasion, Guam became the only inhabited territory of the United States occupied by the Japanese during World War II.
Guam was captured in 1941 and renamed Omiya Jaim (Great Shrine). The capital of Agana also received a new name - Akashi (Red City). Initially, the island was under the control of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The Japanese resorted to vicious methods in an attempt to weaken American influence and force the indigenous Chamorro people to adhere to Japanese social mores and customs.
The Kempeitai took control of the island in 1944. They introduced forced labor for men, women, children and the elderly. Kempeitai employees were convinced that the pro-American Chamorros were engaged in espionage and sabotage, so they brutally cracked down on them. One man, José Lisama Charfauros, came across a Japanese patrol looking for food. He was forced to kneel and a huge incision was made on his neck with a sword. Charfauros was found by his friends a few days after the incident. The maggots stuck to his wound, which helped him stay alive and not get blood poisoning.
9. Women for carnal pleasures
The issue of "pleasure women" forced into prostitution by Japanese soldiers during World War II continues to be a cause of political tension and historical revisionism in East Asia.
Officially, the Kempeitai began to engage in organized prostitution in 1904. Initially, brothel owners contracted with the military police, who were assigned the role of guards, based on the fact that some prostitutes could spy for enemies, prying secrets from talkative or negligent clients.
In 1932, the Kempeitai took full control of organized prostitution for military personnel. Women were forced to live in barracks and tents behind barbed wire. They were guarded by Korean or Japanese yakuza. Also, railway cars were used as mobile brothels. The Japanese forced girls over the age of 13 into prostitution. The prices for their services depended on the ethnic origin of the girls and women and what kind of clients they served - officers, non-commissioned officers or privates. The highest price was paid for Japanese, Korean and Chinese women. According to estimates, about 200,000 women were forced to provide sexual services to 3.5 million Japanese soldiers. They were kept in terrible conditions and received practically no money, despite the fact that they were promised 800 yen a month.
In 1945, members of the British Royal Marines seized documents from the Kempeitai in Taiwan that showed what was done to prisoners in the event of an emergency. They were destroyed by massive bombardment, poisonous gas, decapitation, drowning and other methods.
10. Epidemic Prevention Department
Japanese human experimentation is linked to the infamous "Object 731". However, the scale of the program is difficult to fully appreciate, since there were at least seventeen more such facilities throughout Asia that no one knew about.
"Object 173", for which the Kempeitai employees were responsible, was located in the Manchurian city of Pingfan. For the sake of its construction, eight villages were destroyed. It included living quarters and laboratories where doctors and scientists worked, as well as barracks, a prison camp, bunkers, and a large crematorium for the disposal of corpses. "Object 173" was called the Department of Epidemic Prevention.
Shiro Ishii, head of Object 173, told new employees: “The God-given mission of the doctor is to block and cure diseases. However, what we are working on now is the complete opposite of those principles.. Prisoners who entered the Object 173 were generally considered "incorrigible", "anti-Japanese", or "of no value or use". Most of them were Chinese, but there were also Koreans, Russians, Americans, British and Australians.
In the laboratories of "Object 173" scientists conducted experiments on people. On them, they tested the influence of biological (viruses of bubonic plague, cholera, anthrax, tuberculosis and typhoid) and chemical weapons. One of the scientists who worked on the "Object 173" spoke about one incident that happened outside its walls: “He [we are talking about a thirty-year-old Chinese] knew that everything was over for him, so he did not resist when he was led into a room and tied to a couch. But when I picked up the scalpel, he began to scream. I made an incision on his body from chest to belly. He screamed loudly; his face contorted in agony. He screamed in a voice that was not his own, and then stopped. Surgeons face this every day. I was a little shocked as it was my first time."
Objects controlled by the Kempeitai and the Kwantung Army were located throughout China and Asia. Object 100 in Changchun was developing a biological weapon that was supposed to destroy all livestock in China and the Soviet Union. At the "Object 8604" in Guangzhou, rats carrying bubonic plague were bred. Other sites, such as those in Singapore and Thailand, have been used to investigate malaria and plague.
Oleg Vereshchagin
WOMEN AND CHILDREN OF EUROPE
IN JAPANESE CAPTURE
IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Fearless knight - forgive all friends ... To forgive enemies - conscience does not allow.
Boris Lavrov.
The title of this small work is one of those historical topics that are now "not customary" to raise (along with, for example, the Islamic genocide of the white race in the 8th - 18th centuries or the so-called "denazification" of the German people, as well as the genocide of Russians in Caucasus in the 90s of the XX century - and many others). Unfortunately, I have been convinced many times that raising such topics, the very attempt to tell the truth about them, is something that a hundred years ago seemed natural for a person - patriotism, pride in race and nation, for the courage and military prowess of ancestors - literally runs into a shaft of spitting, shit and accusations of anything - anything at all, the main thing is more and faster, in order to flood the topic more fat and, if possible, frighten the one who raised it. Well. Forward - to another small battle for the History, Memory and Dignity of the race. In 1941-1942, the Japanese captured numerous colonies of the British Empire (actually English, Australian and New Zealand), the United States of America, the Netherlands and France in the Pacific Ocean. Of course, in fact, there was no talk of any real "superiority" of the Japanese as military over the Europeans. When people study this topic, they completely forget that the main and best forces of all European countries "defeated" by Japan were in Europe and were either connected with the war with the Germans, or simply defeated, and the morale of the remaining ones was severely undermined around the world. If this war had not blazed in Europe, Japan would not have dared to attack even the weakest of its opponents, Holland. However, many models of Japanese equipment (especially in the Navy and Air Force) were at a completely world-class level, and the Japanese themselves, as "material", had everything that was needed for such a war - fanatical courage, endurance and unpretentiousness of mules, absolute, blind devotion to their ideals . Considering all this in a complex, one should hardly be surprised at the information that you can see below -
CHRONICLE OF THE CONQUERIES OF JAPAN IN THE PACIFIC
On May 9, 1941, under pressure from Japan, the Vichy regime was forced to sign a peace treaty, according to which Laos and part of Cambodia were ceded to Thailand. In June 1941 the Vichy governmento agreed to enter IndochinaJapanese troops. On December 7, 1941, Japan attacks the American naval base at Pearl Harbor. On December 8, the Japanese blockade the British military base in Hong Kong and begin an invasion of British Malaya and the American Philippines. December 10, the Japanese capture the American base on the island of Guam, December 23 - to the islande Wake. Hong Kong fell on 25 December. On December 8, the Japanese break through the British defenses in Malaya and, advancing rapidly, push the British troops back to Singapore. Singapore, which until then the British considered an "impregnable fortress", fell on February 15, 1942, after a 6-day siege. In the Philippines, at the end of December 1941, the Japanese captured the islands of Mindanao andLuzon. The remnants of American troops manage to gain a foothold on the peninsulaBataanand the island of Corregidor. January 11, 1942 Japanese troops invade the Dutch East Indies and soon capture the islands of Borneo andCelebs. On January 28, the Japanese fleet defeats the Anglo-Dutch squadron in the Java Sea. The allies are trying to create a powerful defense on the island of Java, but by March 2 they capitulate. On January 23, 1942, the Japanese capture the Bismarck Archipelago, including the island of New Britain, and then take possession of the northwestern part of the Solomon Islands, in February the Gilbert Islands, and in early March invade New Guinea. March 8, advancing in Burma, the Japanese capture Rangoon, at the end of April -Mandalay, and by May take possession of almost all of Burma, inflicting defeats on British and Chinese troops and cutting off southern China from India. However, the beginning of the rainy season and the lack of forces do not allow the Japanese to build on their success and invade India. On May 6, the last grouping of American and Philippine troops in the Philippines surrenders. During Hawaiian operation the Japanese, having lost negligibly little equipment and people, actually destroyed the US line forces in the Pacific Ocean. Let me remind you that at that moment the US Navy had 8 battleships, 2 heavy cruisers, 6 light cruisers, 30 destroyers, 5 submarines, 49 other ships in the base. There were 390 aircraft at the airfields. There were no US aircraft carriers at Pearl Harbor, although the Japanese hoped to find them there. The Japanese squadron included 6 aircraft carriers with 414 aircraft, 2 linear, 2 heavy and1 light cruiser, 9 destroyers, 8 refueling ships, 23 submarines and 5 small submarines. Most of all, the Japanese were afraid of meeting with the American squadron that had left for battle, reunited with aircraft carriers returning from exercises. But that did not happen. During the swift operation, the Americans suffered heavy losses: 4 battleships were sunk, 4 damaged; 4 destroyers sunk, 1 damaged; support ship sunk and 3 damaged; 3 cruisers were damaged, 188 were destroyed and 159 aircraft were put out of action. 2341 military and 54 civilians were killed, 1143 military and 35 civilians were injured. The Japanese themselves, who planned to lose at least two aircraft carriers, were amazed: they lost 5 small submarines, 29 aircraft and a little more than 60 people who died. (However, in this story, the role of US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is still waiting for his investigators and judges, who, knowing about the impending strike, framed the best US fleet under it in order to draw the state and the nation into a war - in which, on the one hand, they were not eager to participate, and on the other, into a war, without which the US economy would have bent to death by the mid-40s in the onset of a new, already incurable crisis ...) In the course of Philippine operation 130,000 Japanese soldiers were opposed by 150,000 Americans (actually, there were about 40,000 Americans among them). Having lost 1700 people, the Japanese destroyed one and a half times more enemies and captured almost 100 thousand. IN Malay operation 88,000 British soldiers fought against 60,000 Japanese. However, the British had 160, and the Japanese - more than 600 aircraft. Having lost less than 2,000 killed, the Japanese killed 5,500 British and captured about 40,000. 15 thousand British soldiers (mostly Canadians) defended Hong Kong against the 50,000th Japanese army. About a thousand people were killed on both sides, but almost ten thousand British were captured. IN Singapore e The 85,000-strong British garrison opposed the 36,000-strong invading army. The number of those killed was also approximately equal - 2 thousand each - but almost 80 thousand British were captured. During Javanese operation 67,000 Dutch and 8,000 British soldiers fought the 50,000-strong Japanese army. Against 2,500 Allied soldiers killed, the Japanese had only about 700 killed. 60 thousand defenders of the Dutch colonies were captured. In addition, the Japanese completely destroyed the allied ABDA fleet - 7 cruisers, 27 destroyers, 39 submarines - losing only two destroyers and a minesweeper (and another 11 transports during numerous landings). During this operation, on the islands of Tarakan, Balikpapan and Ambon, the Japanese (it was there that they suffered the greatest losses and lost equipment in the oil fields, blown up by garrisons literally under the Japanese nose) were beheaded immediately after capturing several hundred Dutch and Australian officers and soldiers. Great losses - both in people and territorial - were suffered by the British in Burma. The Eastern Fleet was seriously weakened as a result of the successful actions of the Japanese aviation. In a short time, the Japanese defeated the forces (it was, however, mainly colonial troops - Filipinos, Indonesians, Indians) of European powers and the United States, numbering up to half a million people, of which at least 300,000 thousand were captured, Navy squadrons were practically destroyed Great Britain, the Netherlands and the USA in the Pacific Ocean, took the fortresses of the rank of Singapore and Hong Kong, which were considered impregnable, which were symbols of the dominance of the white race in the East for a whole century. A serious threat of invasion loomed over the almost defenseless Australia. And in the occupied territories, about 70-80 thousand European civilians remained at the will of the enemy. Organizing a guerrilla war in the territories occupied by Japan (and at the same time evacuating the civilian population to the so-called "partisan areas", as was often done in Europe) was practically impossible at that time. The terrain favored this in almost the entire Pacific theater of operations, but ... the indigenous population was largely amazed by the Japanese propaganda about the "sphere of co-prosperity" - however, by 1943 it was properly cracking down on this co-prosperity through the mediation and lively participation of the kempetai and the Japanese civil administration, will wake up en masse and begin to remember the "white devils" as meek and merciful "white fathers". Entire guerrilla armies will spring up everywhere, "but that will be another story." Almost everywhere, the civilian European population was taken by surprise by the speed of the enemy's blows, by the unpreparedness of their troops to protect this population. The only exceptions were Burma, where the British managed to "build a front" in its classical sense and take most of the non-combatants out of the war zone to the rear - and French Vietnam, where nominally there was dual power, including the Vichy colonial administration. In other cases, the whites could only rely on the Japanese observing the norms for treating prisoners of war and, in fact, leaving women and children "at the mercy of the victor." By the way, the past experience of the clash between whites and the Japanese - the Russo-Japanese War - provided encouraging examples. It seemed that the Japanese not only learned the European principles for the treatment of prisoners of war, but even deliberately try to adhere to them firmly. Reinforcing this confidence and many times declared in one form or another, the desire of the Japanese to "stop being macaques." And the paradoxically brutal treatment of the Japanese with the Chinese or Koreans, which has been going on for the past 20 years in front of the eyes of the whole wide world ... well, they are "non-white", isn't it? Unfortunately, the Europeans were greatly mistaken. The strange gentleness of the Japanese towards Russian prisoners of the times of 1904-1905 had a simple cynical explanation: the Japanese made an image for themselves as a weapon. Now - in 1941-1942 - they were strong enough and were winners. As it seemed to them - absolute. The image no longer interested them. They are without of any mercy, they drove into the camps almost the entire white civilian population that fell into their hands - without even trying to somehow disguise it, well, at least with the desire to protect the defenseless from "revenge" from the local population, as the British did with the Boers in the early twentieth century century. During these raids, by the summer of 1942, the Japanese had captured and thrown into camps, in violation of all military laws, about 67-68 thousand white civilians of the following nationality and gender and age composition:
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This is what the unlimited power of money leads to ... Why are Japanese people hated in neighboring countries?
During the Second World War, it was common for Japanese soldiers and officers to chop civilians with swords, stab with bayonets, rape and kill women, kill children, the elderly. That is why, for Koreans and Chinese, the Japanese are a hostile people, murderers.
In July 1937, the Japanese attacked China, and the Sino-Japanese War began, which lasted until 1945. In November-December 1937, the Japanese army launched an offensive against Nanjing. On December 13, the Japanese captured the city, for 5 days there was a massacre (murders continued later, but not as massive), which went down in history as the "Nanjing Massacre". More than 350,000 people were slaughtered during the Japanese massacre, some sources cite half a million people. Tens of thousands of women were raped, many of them killed. The Japanese army acted on the basis of 3 principles "clean":
The massacre began when Japanese soldiers led 20,000 Chinese of military age out of the city and stabbed them all with bayonets so that they could never join the Chinese army. A feature of the massacres and bullying was that the Japanese did not shoot - they took care of the ammunition, they killed and maimed everyone with cold weapons.
After that, massacres began in the city, women, girls, old women were raped, then killed. Hearts were cut out from living people, bellies were cut, eyes were gouged out, buried alive, heads were cut off, even babies were killed, madness was going on in the streets. Women were raped right in the middle of the streets - the Japanese, intoxicated with impunity, forced fathers to rape daughters, sons - mothers, samurai competed to see who could kill the most people with a sword - a certain samurai Mukai won, who killed 106 people.
After the war, the crimes of the Japanese military were condemned by the world community, but since the 1970s Tokyo has denied them, Japanese history textbooks write about the massacre that many people were simply killed in the city, without details.
Massacre in Singapore
On February 15, 1942, the Japanese army captured the British colony of Singapore. The Japanese decided to identify and destroy "anti-Japanese elements" in the Chinese community. During the Purge operation, the Japanese checked all Chinese men of military age, the execution lists included Chinese men who participated in the war with Japan, Chinese employees of the British administration, Chinese who donated money to the China Relief Fund, Chinese, natives of China, etc. d.
They were taken out of the filtration camps and shot. Then the operation was extended to the entire peninsula, where they decided not to "stand on ceremony" and, due to the lack of people for the inquiry, they shot everyone in a row. Approximately 50 thousand Chinese were killed, the rest were still lucky, the Japanese did not complete Operation Purge, they had to transfer troops to other areas - they planned to destroy the entire Chinese population of Singapore and the peninsula.
Massacre in Manila
When in early February 1945 it became clear to the Japanese command that Manila could not be held, the army headquarters was moved to the city of Baguio, and they decided to destroy Manila. Destroy the population. In the capital of the Philippines, according to the most conservative estimates, more than 110 thousand people were killed. Thousands of people were shot, many were doused with gasoline and set on fire, the infrastructure of the city, houses, schools, hospitals were destroyed. On February 10, the Japanese massacred the building of the Red Cross, killed everyone, even children, the Spanish consulate was burned, along with people.
The massacre also took place in the suburbs, in the town of Calamba the entire population was destroyed - 5 thousand people. They did not spare the monks and nuns of Catholic institutions, schools, and killed students.
System of "comfort stations"
In addition to the rape of tens, hundreds, thousands of women, the Japanese authorities are guilty of another crime against humanity - the creation of a network of brothels for soldiers. It was common practice to rape women in the captured villages, some of the women were taken away with them, few of them were able to return.
In 1932, the Japanese command decided to create "comfortable home-stations", justifying their creation by the decision to reduce anti-Japanese sentiment due to mass rape on Chinese soil, concern for the health of soldiers who need to "rest" and not get venereal diseases. First they were created in Manchuria, in China, then in all the occupied territories - in the Philippines, Borneo, Burma, Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and so on. In total, from 50 to 300 thousand women passed through these brothels, and most of them were minors. Until the end of the war, no more than a quarter survived, morally and physically mutilated, poisoned with antibiotics. The Japanese authorities even created proportions of "service": 29 ("customers"): 1, then increased to 40: 1 per day.
Currently, the Japanese authorities deny these data, earlier Japanese historians spoke about the private nature and voluntariness of prostitution.
Death Squad - Squad 731
In 1935, the so-called. was created as part of the Japanese Kwantung Army. "Squad 731", its goal was the development of biological weapons, delivery vehicles, human testing. He worked until the end of the war, the Japanese military did not have time to use biological weapons against the United States, and the USSR only thanks to the rapid advance of the Soviet troops in August 1945.
Shiro Ishii - Commander of Unit 731
unit 731 casualties
More than 5 thousand prisoners and local residents became “guinea pigs” of Japanese specialists, they called them “logs”.
People were slaughtered alive for "scientific purposes", infected with the most terrible diseases, then "opened" while still alive. Experiments were carried out on the survivability of "logs" - how long it will last without water and food, scalded with boiling water, after irradiation with an X-ray machine, withstand electrical discharges, without any excised organ, and many others. other.
The Japanese command was ready to use biological weapons in Japan against the American landing, sacrificing the civilian population - the army and leadership had to be evacuated to Manchuria, to the "alternate airfield" of Japan.
The Asian peoples still have not forgiven Tokyo, especially in light of the fact that in recent decades Japan has refused to admit more and more of its war crimes. Koreans recall that they were even forbidden to speak their native language, they were ordered to change their native names to Japanese (the “assimilation” policy) - approximately 80% of Koreans adopted Japanese names. They drove girls to brothels, in 1939 they forcibly mobilized 5 million people into industry. Korean cultural monuments were taken away or destroyed.
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Massacre in Nanjing.
Like any crime of capitalism and state ambitions, the Nanjing Massacre must not be forgotten.
Prince Asaka Takahito (1912-1981), it was he who issued the order to "kill all the captives", giving official sanction to the "Nanjing Massacre"
In December 1937, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army massacred many civilians in Nanjing, then the capital of the Republic of China.
Despite the fact that after the war a number of Japanese military were convicted of the massacre in Nanjing, since the 1970s, the Japanese side has pursued a policy of denying the crimes committed in Nanjing. In Japanese school history textbooks, it is simply written in a streamlined way that "a lot of people were killed" in the city.
The Japanese began by taking 20,000 men of military age out of the city and stabbing them with bayonets so that they “could not raise arms against Japan” in the future. Then the invaders moved on to the destruction of women, the elderly, and children.
In December 1937, a Japanese newspaper describing the exploits of the army enthusiastically reported on a valiant competition between two officers who argued who would be the first to slaughter more than a hundred Chinese with his sword. The Japanese, as hereditary duelists, requested additional time. A certain samurai Mukai won, slaughtering 106 people against 105.
Crazed samurai ended sex with murder, gouged out eyes and tore out hearts from still living people. The killings were carried out with particular cruelty. The firearms that were in service with Japanese soldiers were not used. Thousands of victims were stabbed with bayonets, their heads were cut off, people were burned, buried alive, women's stomachs were cut open and their insides turned out, and small children were killed. They raped and then brutally killed not only adult women, but also little girls, as well as old women. Witnesses say that the sexual ecstasy of the conquerors was so great that they raped all the women in a row, regardless of their age, in broad daylight on busy streets. At the same time, fathers were forced to rape their daughters, and sons were forced to rape their mothers.
A peasant from Jiangsu province (near Nanjing) tied to a stake for execution.
In December 1937, the capital of Kuomintang China, Nanjing, fell. Japanese soldiers began to practice their popular "three clean" policy:
"burn clean", "kill everyone clean", "rob clean".
When the Japanese left Nanking, it turned out that the transport ship could not stand on the shore of the river bay. He was hindered by thousands of corpses floating down the Yangtze. From memories:
“We had to use floating bodies as a pontoon. To get on the ship, I had to walk over the dead.
In just six weeks, about 300,000 people were killed and more than 20,000 women were raped. The terror was beyond imagination. Even the German consul in an official report described the behavior of the Japanese soldiers as "brutal".
The Japanese bury the living Chinese in the ground.
The Japanese military entered the courtyard of the monastery to kill Buddhist monks.
In 2007, documents from one of the international charitable organizations operating in Nanjing during the war were made public. These documents, as well as records confiscated from Japanese forces, show that Japanese soldiers killed more than 200,000 civilians and the Chinese military in 28 massacres, and at least 150,000 more people were killed in isolated cases during the infamous massacres in Nanjing. The maximum estimate of all victims is 500,000 people.
According to evidence presented at the war crimes court in Tokyo, Japanese soldiers raped 20,000 Chinese women (an underestimate), many of whom were subsequently killed.
