The articles we have recently read in history are very shocking and show the true grizzly potential of the human mind in certain situations. Events such as the holocaust and Nanking raise the question how can people hate at such a severe degree.  I believe this assignment was good because it has educated students on a subject that usually isn’t brought up in detail in history classes. It needs to be remembered.

Japan’s atrocities are some of the most fierce I have read about. Their use of humans as basically lab rats is disgusting.  The Japanese seemed to have a more brutal or savage approach to how they treated their enemies. You can see this in examples such as what happened in Nanking and other atrocities such as the baton death march.  What really struck me was the use of civilian and prisoners of war as live bayonet practice. That’s just upsetting. There was no value for human life.

I believe the atrocities carried out by the Japanese parallel the atrocities of Nazi Germany, but I believe Nazi Germany’s holocaust is still more of tragedy. The sheer numbers   of people killed by the Nazis is on a scale rarely seen before.  The Nazis indiscriminately tortured, executed, gassed, tested and burned women, children and the elderly just as the Japanese did but the Nazis did it in much greater numbers.   They tried to exterminate all inferiors for god’s sake that’s just evil.

I also condemn America for making such a shady deal with the Japanese government to forget 731 in exchange for their knowledge of biological weapons. It’s as if the lives that were lost in 731 didn’t even matter. It doesn’t make sense why we didn’t punish the Japanese. And it really makes you think why did America get into world war two in the first place? Was it all a just to gain the technological advancements of two rising super powers?  We gained so much from WW2 and others lost so much. It was

I believe the articles we read don’t shed nearly enough light on the atrocities of Nazi Germany and paint a picture of a more brutal Japan. I’m not saying what japan did was less awful than what the Nazis did I’m just saying the amount killed by the Japanese does not even compare to the amount killed in the holocaust. So my vote goes to Nazi Germany.