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"“The white men … generally accepted the use of the chicotte as unthinkingly as hundreds of thousands of other men in uniform would accept their assignments, a half century later, to staff the Nazi and Soviet concentration camps.”" — Apr 15, 2026 05:24PM
"“The white men … generally accepted the use of the chicotte as unthinkingly as hundreds of thousands of other men in uniform would accept their assignments, a half century later, to staff the Nazi and Soviet concentration camps.”" — Apr 15, 2026 05:24PM
He recalled that the highest honor a soldier could achieve during war was to come back dead: to die for the emperor was the greatest glory, to be caught alive by the enemy the greatest shame. “If my life was not important,” Azuma wrote to
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So basically the japanese were trained from a young age to give their life for their country. This mismatch in attitude paired with failed comms, language barriers, and failed transportation to make China an easy target (when it shouldn’t have been)
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