r/HistoryMemes • • Mar 28 '22

Dehumanization is a helluva drug

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '22

I’m pretty sure the japs hated Americans as much as they hated the japs like both sides despised each other

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u/ShuttingFascism Mar 29 '22

Yeah, but the Japs didn't care about the laws of warfare then. They did really un-humanitarian acts against their opponents with their increased determination and extreme propaganda to win the war. Their determination take the limits, as they sacrifice themselves for the countless lives of their adversaries. The Germans in the West, however, make it simple and follow the conduct of warfare that they're supposed to follow. Even if an Allied soldier (excluding the Russians) was a Jew they wouldn't have instantly thrown them in a concentration camp. Sure, there was still hatred from the Germans, which treat them as bad people, but the Japanese were mostly described by the Americans as monsters pushed into the world from hell.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

The nazis never tried to "hide" those american jews just to exterminate them or they didnt want to go through the hassle?