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I visited several of the camps when I lived in Germany. Just standing there looking out was bone chilling. I wish it had been a war to end all wars. I was also lucky enough to talk to locals who lived through those turbulent years. Some of their stories of constant fear, starvation and perseverance were amazing.
Has anyone read The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer? It's a real eye opener and very gut wrenching. I highly recommend it.
I visited several of the camps when I lived in Germany. Just standing there looking out was bone chilling. I wish it had been a war to end all wars. I was also lucky enough to talk to locals who lived through those turbulent years. Some of their stories of constant fear, starvation and perseverance were amazing.
Has anyone read The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer? It's a real eye opener and very gut wrenching. I highly recommend it.
I cannot imagine. Bone chilling indeed. The thought of all the pain and suffering that happened in those camps we cannot even imagine on our worst day.
While in the Philippines, I was stationed at Capas, Tarlac, the terminus for the Bataan Death March. Every year, a group of survivors would show up, and I was never prouder than when I was selected as a member of the honor guard one year.
The Japanese were far more brutal and sadistic than the Germans, hard as that may to believe. There is plenty of evidence that McArthur and his higher ups were complicit in covering up and quashing many of the investigations and prosecutions of Japanese war criminals. This could have gone to the very top, that means Truman.
The US government took the Japanese side when some WWII POWs tried to sue Mitsubishi and other Japanese companies that profited from slave labor. The lawsuit ended up going nowhere.
The Japanese continue to practice one-sided trade policies, and our politicians go along with it.
The Soviets had hundreds of thousands of their combat veterans liquidated after the war, because Stalin feared they were a threat to him.
The Chinese also liquidated many of their own.
Compared to all our opponents and many of our "allies," the US is an utter paragon of virtues regarding how POWs were treated. Not to mention the treatment of captured/surrendered territories. There is no comparison.
Thank you so much for posting this story . . . I am going to forward it to my friends. It is powerful and humbling to think what this man endured . . . and then never to have been able to discuss it . . . and to be disparaged by his own father . . . I simply find it all overwhelming.
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