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[quote=DODGER,258549]Leonardo,
You are correct. We must never forget those who have sacrificed their life’s.
The starting date of Japanese aggression is not that well know in the West. Many assume that it started with the bombing of Perl harbour.
My understanding is that all of the facts are not studied in Japanese schools. They still live in denial. This is in direct contrast to German schools where the facts on the concentration camps etc are studied.
Shesgottobe,
Leonardo’s post was not IMO posted to cause grieve or embarrassment but the facts on the Rape of Nanjing have been hidden for too long.
As an example, two Japanese officers held a competition to see who could behead the most people before that arrived at the City. The story of this competition was run on a weekly basis in the Japanese news papers along with explicit pictures. Many of the 300,000 (this is a low estimate) where slaughtered by hand because they did not want to waste ammunition on people that they thought of as sub human.
But as Tomspecer has written, we are all guilt of filtering and abridging our history. Some more than others.
Dodger.
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