These are KNOWN war crimes. With the leadership being very willing and motivated to cover up war crimes, imagine how many atrocities were successfully covered up. And will never be known to history. A chilling thought. A sad and brutal fact. Rest in peace to all the otherwise peaceful men and women sent to their deaths by corrupt and bloodthirsty governments.
True. I think a lot of unknown war crimes are often remembered by the survivors and families of the victims while being gaslighted by the perpetrators who got away with it.
Patton: "Show them no mercy. Kill them if they try to surrender." Green soldier: *Shows no mercy; kills prisoners.* Patton: "You weren't supposed to do that."
@@irishcoughy5916 It definitely doesn't, but at least I can see where they're coming from. A trusted general gives a motivational speech and mentions to shoot anyone who surrenders. You've been fighting in brutal conditions for weeks, and when the fighting ends there's prisoners. You remember the speech and their brutality and execute them. It's unjust, but understandable.
because most officers often came from a long line of military family and their parents and predecessors are friends and have served with someone from the top brass.
I'm from the UK and I learned about WW2 in school. We never talked about any Allied war crimes though and only learned about the Holocaust. I'm glad we have channels like simple history so that we can learn about the war from both the Allied and Axis perspectives
Because for the western allies part, they were negligible in comparison to what they were waging war to defeat, worst scale of crimes against humanity in the shortest time in human history so, its about the greatness that was done to defeat them really that is focused on, at least they don't omit the war crimes that did take place for their part in the end.
Yhea talk with my history teacher and he say that we don't have time too cover up all atrocities commit by the allies so that why we focused on the german and Japanese
My grandfather escaped the Bataan Death March and joined the guerillas fighting in the jungle. He had many stories about what the Japanese did during the war.
My great grandfather was nearly a part of that. He got an impacted wisdom tooth that nearly killed him from the infection. Was sent back to Manila for treatment. After that he was transferred to another infantry regiment and spent the war as reinforcements for the marshal island’s campaign.
The biggest tragedy of all is that the Japanese war crimes were forgotten, and were never truly punished for it unlike the Germans. Edit: to the over 100 comments saying it, the nukes were not enough. They committed worse crimes than the Germans ever did.
In 1975 I enlisted in the Navy and was assigned to NAS Barber's Point Oahu HI. Was first in Squadron VR-21 a C-118 Transport and Admirals special aircraft group until it decommissioned in late 1976. Was then assigned to VC-1 a photographers and training unit. My XO and then later CO was Commander Gerald Coffee.........he retired as a Captain. He gave lectures to 'newbies' such as I about his experiences as a POW in the Hanoi Hilton for 7 plus years. He was one of the originators of the 'Tap Code' system. He was the ONLY Officer that I had any authentic respect for on the Naval Station and happily saluted him. All others were just obligations to superiors. LOVED him very much and was fortunate to have spoken with him for over an hour 4 months before he passed away at 88 years old.
my late grandfather was with the 57th infantry regiment (Philippine Scouts), and would always recount his escape story. he managed to run off into high grass with others, some of which died from the Japanese troops shooting at them. He still had this large scar on his back from a grazing round
I had never heard about Yamashita's gold, but that explains so much about the premise for Rook Island as the setting in Far Cry 3. "Why are there boxes of loot stashed in every random cave around this island?" Yamashita put them there. The skeletons and lost letters of WW2 soldiers always made sense to me, of course, but now knowing the full history with the stockpiled treasure, it really completes the picture.
@@pieterpennings9371 Agreed, and it had one of the most interesting antagonists of all time. The combination of psychedelics and a psychopath made the game really fun to immerse yourself into. FC4 didn't do that quite as well as FC3, as the trips felt really separate from the main storyline, but the story on that one was still compelling enough on its own, luckily.
@@pieterpennings9371 the new games being complete trash sucks tho, they stopped trying after FC3 and were able to do it again with FC4, but everything after that is various boring reskins
Thank you for touching base on Japanese War Crimes. Being Japanese myself I never believed any of the stories told by my non Japanese friends about Japanese war crimes in WW2 and dismissed it as propaganda. Our textbooks in Japan have no mention of it or completely embellish them. For example growing up we were taught that “comfort women” weren’t forced but volunteers who “handsomely” were paid by the Imperial Army. We were also taught that the Rape of Nanking, comfort women (women forced into sexual slavery by imperial japan), and other war crimes were embellishments created by the Chinese, Korean, and other former colonial governments out of jealousy for Japans economic growth following ww2. We often made obscene jokes about it during class and my fellow classmates would laugh along. It wasn’t until later in life that I decided to conduct a more objective investigation. Needless to say I’m greatly ashamed of my younger and immature self all those years ago. It worries me for future fellow Japanese generations as politicians are looking to erase such embellishments even further. Just recently in 2021 Japanese textbooks will no longer mention comfort women or the rape of Nanking as being associated with the Japanese military in WW2. History is riddled with embarrassment for every civilization that has ever existed. Erasing such memories only dooms humanity to repeat the same mistakes perpetually. It seems in the current global geopolitical climates the musings of war and paranoia are accelerating this trend.
Regardless you did not commit those crimes. So in the end you hold no fault or apology. Other then maybe not being reverent. Same logic as white men killed Indians 150 years ago so all white people must apologized today
@@crazychase98 It's more complex than that. If we profit from crimes and atrocities our ancestors committed it's fair to say we bear at least some degree of responsibility to at least try to put a dent in the damage they caused.
@@stormthrush37 Damage to who? There all dead and been dead. Indians that suffer now is from mostly drug use alcohol. A welfare which getting rid of welfare will help a lot of those issues
My great uncle was in the Bataan Death March. He has a autobiography he gifted to his family about his experience. Was very brutal and he miraculously survived.
@@Ratchet299 he was bound to a wheelchair after the war due to a mortar hurting him in combat. He wouldn’t say much in the years I knew him, I just read his autobiography. He wrote that they were all bound by chain and the enemy would shoot the people too weak to walk and it would make everyone else have to drag the bodies as it got heavier and heavier.
@@ChaosWithMarsunfortunately not, him and his brother wrote about the war as they were both in separate fronts. His brother was in Normandy and was the 2nd wave to storm the beaches. He was a medic and lost his gun in the battle. He also wrote that he found someone who’s leg was blown up and he had to use rusty scissors to cut the leg off so he could stop the bleeding. He was shot in the shoulder by a sniper in a graveyard and was sent home for his injuries. I wish I could remember all the exact accounts they wrote but it was very difficult to read at some parts
Yamashita was the only general who actualy treated his pows with respect, and specifically said no looting, no rape, no killing. But since he was commanding half a million troops, not all of them followed his orders. There is a vid on this guy's life
his trial was nothing but a fucking farce. The allied nations wanted revenge and that unfortunately went on Yamashita. the trial is on youtube i believe.
@@surfingbrrrdLies. He had executed many Japanese soldiers for disobeying the orders aforementioned. You don't disobey a Japanese General's orders without severe repercussions. Besides, most Allied judges in trial were quite sympathetic to General Yamashita except for one big name, General MacArthur who had vetoed all rule in favor of sparing Yamashita from hanging. The reason for this would most likely be attributed to General Yamashita's massive success against MacArthur's forces in the Philippines, which utterly embarrassed MacArthur and our country's history. This battle would be and still is our country's worst defeat in warfare since our inception.
There are other Japanese generals with honorable records such as General Kuribayashi and General Matsui, with similar orders as General Yamashita. But you must understand the vast majority of instances no one treated POW's very humanely on both sides. Allies were far from saints and even killed over a million unarmed Wehrmacht POW's after the war had ended by forcibly starving them.
I can’t imagine being a soldier and expected to fight and under intense pressure of seeing your comrades and buddies getting killed you have to restrain yourself from getting revenge. Much respect to those who can.
1. (0:07) The Biscary Massacre 1943 Preperator: - Captain John Thomas Compton(Free) - Sergeant Horach Travis West(Sentence and Demotion) 2. (6:31) The Chichijima incident Preperator: - Lieutenant General Yoshio Tachibana(Comander) Victim: Lloyd Woellhof, Grady York, James “Jimmy” Dye, Glenn Frazier Jr., Marvell “Marve” Mershon, Floyd Hall, Warren Earl Vaughn, and Warren Hindenlang escaped: George HW Bush 3. (6:31) Bataan Death March Preperator: Imperial japanese Army - General Masaharu Homa - Colonel Masanobu tsuji 4. (22:53) Mystery of Yamashita Gold Preoetrator: - General Tomoyuki Yamashita 5. (30:05) The Hanoi Hilton Vietnam War Prepetrator: - Vietcong guerilla - North Vietnamese Army
Great Uncle William Lee McMillan, Company M, 4th Marine Regiment, surrendered on Corregidor in 1942. He survived nearly three years as a POW of the Japanese. At least in body and just barely. Malaria paralyzed him from the waist down. Ulcers in his eyes rendered him virtually blind. He was rescued at Bilibid Prison, Manila in 1945 by the US Buckeye Infantry Division. Through intense physical therapy and surgery he was able to recover some of his sight and could shuffle walk by the time he was discharged. Needless to say, he was rated as permenantly disabled. His time home was not good. He couldn't hold a job. His physical and mental disabilities drove him to drink. He was married briefly, and had a son. Tragically the boy died less than a year later and the marriage ended in a divorce. Then to add to his woes, his nephew, my grandfather, came home with a Japanese bride! That split the family horribly. Many treated Grandma either coldly or with outright hostility. One relative called my father, an baby at the time, "That J@p boy." Strangely enough, Uncle Bill was another exception. According to Grandma, he never had anything mean to say to her. Never raised his voice or even blame her for what happened to him, but he wouldn't stay in the room with her for very long. Uncle Bill died in 1976, at the age of 64. The offical cause of death was heart failure, but we know it stemmed from his captivity. Part of him is still in the Philippines.
0:08 the biscari massacre ww2 6:33 the President who avoided beeing eaten by cannibals ww2 12:06 the Bataan death march ww2 22:52 the mystery of yamashitas gold 30:09 prison camp hanoi hilton in the vietnam war
As a german I'm quite surprised by these. As far as histroy lessons in schools go the only japanese involvement in WWII we learn about is Pearl Harbour. Only learned about various war crimes and the existence of unit 731 way after my school days.
It’s the same for me. Australian public school only taught us about the Holocaust and Pearl Harbour. I found out about Unit 731 and others later in life.
Did they teach you about the mandatory "re-education" i.e. brainwashing of your parents and grandparents by the USA and the Allies? What about the UmVolkung of your Country in the past 80 years? What about the UmVolkung of other White countries? Ukraine is hard at work removing it's male population, will likely need some (non-white) young men after the war to rebuild and repopulate. 😂😂😂😂
because if every kid were taught these kind of thing at young ages, of all the warcrimes of their own country and others, they’ll only grow up in despair and guilt, or anger and rage
@@holmesholmes.8784I don't necessarily think that anger and rage would rise as a result of this as they'd learn that every country has their own skeletons in the closet. Unlike the hatred between two nations like Serbia and Albania where little kids of both are indoctrinated from young ages that the others are evil. Also, there are a ton of interesting stories that could get a lot of kids more involved in history like heroic battles, unlikely allies, etc. My three favourites of specifically war history of all time: - The christmas truce 1914/WWI - 588th night bomber regiment (Soviet, WWII) - Witold Pilecki (Auschwitz, inmate 4859, WWII) Witolds Report: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold%27s_Report
@@AlTheWombat I suppose it's not evidently that kids learning about war crimes at young age would have substantial different responses, but if adults can have such drastic reactions, I don't think it is affordable to do a gamble on it until an educating formula can be found to lecture about these kinds of things. And yes, there's a lot more to history than war crimes, at least a major part of it are taught down and the rest are optionally pursuitable for people with passions.
That song is sarcastic. But "peaceful" Europeans immediately think that bloodthirsty Serbs with a knife in their mouth sing that song, proud of their crimes.
My father was in the CIC during the battle of the bulge. German soldiers ,dressed in American uniforms , were turned over to the CIC for interragation. How they got them to talk was pretty brutal.
Gotta love how ol 'blood and guts' Patton got away with ordering his boys to go out and be merciless killers that took no prisoners, then suggests the incidents be covered up, and SOMEHOW he didn't get in any trouble nor was the defense for both men considered 'applicable'. Funny how that goes.
You do realize he was just trying to inspire them He didn’t actually mean murder them. Biscary was obviously not a war crime ordered by the higher ups but an individual unit action in which they were pissed off at the snipers who killed many of them. It certainly isn’t justified but Patton is not responsible, he was a scape goat and they failed at making that happen
What do you expect from a country who initiated a program called Operation Paperclip? You see, power tends to consolidate in the hands of the few. This same structure of power creates unjust hierarchies that cannot be questioned. That's how you get Patton.
Never understood why some nations try to downplay or cover up their war crimes. As a Canadian I feel we need to be aware of the crime our troops committed the village that was torched in Germany was shameful I'm grateful they forced the town evacuated before burning it down but then their was the reason our airborne division was disbanded in the 90s
Because that will lower morale You can’t have low morale during wartime And it’s not like these things happened very often (atleast for allied units, Soviet and axis units are different)
@@luigimrlgaming9484 Low moral happens when people are in denial and lied too. The truth always comes full circle. Then people have low moral AND can't trust their own leaders. Just be honest. Or are people cowards?
@@taramaforhaikido7272 Low Morale just happens when something happens that increase the chance of losing. You can feel low morale in a sports game when they score in the first 2 minutes.
@@luigimrlgaming9484 You're looking at short term. I'm talking long term. War is NOT a sports game that lasts 2 minutes. This is about TRUST. If a leader can't be taken at their word then how can their word be trusted? If a leader deals with lies and secrets then where is their courage? Sun Tzu lets people assume. Yet he knows to know the enemy. There's a big difference between assumptions and telling your own men to obey an order then trying to avoid accountability. Would you trust that? Future wars happen. People look back on history. How can they trust their leaders when there's always some backstabber and turn coat betraying their own troops? Compare that to someone that hides nothing. Wanting their enmies to know they're coming. And knowing that nothing can be done to stop them. Provided that turns out to be true then that's a much better example to set. One of bravery and courage. Or if not that at least honesty and responsability. People will follow a weak leader if they are honest. People won't follow a strong leader if they are a lying two faced coward that doesn't even admit what they do. And secrets always get revealed in the end. It might not be soon, but in the end it WILL get found out. That's when the troops of today smell blood in the water. Leading to rebellions and fighting your own.
In northern Italy on 15 December 1944 after a clash in the town of Calbana in which the polish soldiers suffered significant losses against a platoon of Italians from the 8th Bersaglieri Regiment, the Poles surrounded the town and killed two wounded Italian soldiers (they were 15/16 years old) and put all the prisoners against the wall to be shot, the English officer arrived just in time and saved all the prisoners; unfortunately many events like these will remain known by few because they are countless all over the world
@@cloutmastermemes2007 Things like these generate deep wounds among the peoples of the various countries in which these things happened, they will always remember if their enemy behaved like a villain or an adversary
The Poles were MERCILESS when it came to POWs. Considering the fact that the Axis planned to completely exterminate their nation, I can't exactly blame them.
@@scottkrafft6830 tf ? what does Italy have to do with the Poles? I wonder why you don't inform yourself before shooting this bullshit. Italy has never set foot in Poland so the Poles would have had no reason to shoot two Italian prisoners
In Jr. High a teacher of mine told us what her husband had endured as a POW in a Japanese Camp. What was horrifying was the prisoners weren't given food or at least rarely. Her husband and other POWs ate human waste to assuage the pain of hunger. As far as I'm concerned all sides did unnecessary and unspeakable things to enemy combatants whether they were being held in POW camps or not. Civilians who were loyal American Citizens were rounded up and held in (internment camps) but were in fact concentration camps by a nicer name on U.S. soil and not treated as if they were actually enemies without proof. Timely and appropriate medical was almost non existant. After the war many found the property they'd owned prior to the war had been confiscated and sold. I am not sure if any of them were compensated for the losses or if they just had to start from scratch. Like I stated all sides in all wars have done unspeakable things to those they called enemy. In fact the expansion of the original 13 colonies came at the expense of the lives of not just healthy young men who fought for their tribes but the elderly and young children and their mothers were attacked in villages and hiding places. For the longest time the U.S. Government framed the expansion as a great effort battling savages who fought to hold on to their territorial areas. The movie Avatar explains it simply. When someone has something you want. Just call them savages not worth caring about anything.
I’ve played games that have a Vietnam themed map or game mode, and when they mentioned the lady with propaganda I legitimately got goosebumps. They have some of those exact same voice lines in the games. Hanoi Hannah.
They still folowed orders. They were still willing to commit the tourture. Despite being JUST THE SAME as they men they were abusing. They did it, instead of standing up to said leadership. 10 officers in a camp with 30-40 enlisted....they could ABSOUBTLY stand up and stop the tourtures. IF they had been GOOD PEOPLE and refused to abuse people who Were Just Like Them. Folloing their order, Just Like Them. Doimg their duty, Just Like Them. Truth is, weather through cowardice or Evil. The tourturers AGREED to commit these atrocities.
@@dd11111 Imagine actually making an argument that the leaders (who force these things on their grunts) are fine to face no punishment and not realizing halfway through how stupid it makes you sound.
There's a ton of videos circulating around the internet now of war crimes from conflicts across the globe. From torture to just straight executions. Some of them that I've seen are horrific, like cutting eyes out and castrations, it makes the executions look tame 😥
I've seen both videos you are talking about. They are absolutely brutal and if I remember correctly the eye-gouging one was committed by a Ukrainian soldier. There's plenty of videos of Russians gunning down civillians trying to escape among other things. It's absolutely depraved.
Thank you for doing this! I have been waiting for you to do a BATAAN Death March episode! Means a lot to me because my Grandpa was a Filipino POWs captured. His name was Marino aka Marine Unite. The Filipinos got released, he then joined a guerrilla group to fight the Japanese.
There is a difference between committing acts in the heat of battle or just after when the red mist is down and when it is co-ordinated by officers after the fact. When it is instigated by officers after the fact it is unforgivable.
That Chad who claimed he was Clark Kent to the Vietnamese lol. "OK you got me I admit it! My name is Clark Kent I was a reporter for the Daily Planet! My wife's name is Lois Lane and my best friend is a dark and gloomy rich playboy!"
My Grand-Uncle served his time in Nam, he was captured twice by the NVA. One of those times, his toenails were completely removed slowly and painfully by North Vietnamese using Sharpened Bamboo. He is alive and well today.
Salute to my grandfather, a survivor of the Bataan Death March. He persevered in battle until General Douglas MacArthur's return. I am fortunate to have heard his story. He harbored intense anger towards General MacArthur, whom he accused of deserting them during the battle. His indignation was such that he named my father after him.
Patton: Kill each and everyone of those bastards with no mercy! West and Compton: Say less *Commits war crimes* Patton: Wow, that's messed up. West and Compton: Hold up, this whole operation was your idea.
Dunno if this one showed up here but a couple came in my mind The Tukhchar massacre, Chechclear and reports of chechens (or someone similar) gutting and tying up prisoners to each other using their intestines.
It's still happening. In Ukraine Russia was accused (with video evidence) of locking in and burning hundreds of Ukrainian POWs inside of a warehouse while they were sleeping. Things like this are in humanities nature unfortunately
@@roguebogey thats why you should never surrender. it is most likely guaranteed that you will die a more painful death in a pow camp than you would fighting. even then, with fighting theres still a chance you can survive it. pows always face the worst brutality of the war
@@niggilywiggily th-cam.com/video/VOdNBALV7Zo/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/qp4OFJt6c_c/w-d-xo.html by the way: those orcs are the most disgusting creatures on Earth because what they did in Olenivka is just a part of that series crimes what the commit in UA take a look what they commited yesterday: th-cam.com/video/9wBNto_IhEQ/w-d-xo.html
Kinda wish this channel covered more ground when it comes to war stories all over the world. There are hundreds of countries that have similar stories that need to be brought to light.
@@unwnme Thompson shoots .45 acp they better be huddled like pigs in a cage for a 30 to 40 efficiency it’s a fat slow bullet for stopping power not piercing he prolly didn’t just use one mag tho or used a drum tbh 😅
Biscari Massacre: Officer gets off Scott free, Enlisted Soldier gets imprisoned and reduced rank. That type of Justice still exists today. It’s better to have a college degree and become an officer than go in at 18.
They both should’ve been executed by firing squad for what they did to those pows truly disgusting that whole company should’ve been behind bars after the war
My Grandpa was in the bataan march He escaped by Acting dead when they lined them up to shoot He time just right and dropped to the ground right before the bullet hit him
Not if it is against an "Evil" state. The common people have no say. We're just expected to comply and obey. Good morals are punished by getting jailed or worse these days, and even back in the day. If your superior tells you to do evil, what is one to do? It's a damned either way, and I myself would rather live in shame than be destroyed because I chose the moral high ground. So I can understand when some people say, "I was just following orders." as the alternative could mean, well, you could become a scapegoat or merely have the anger of those who could be found out projected upon you. Or worse if your superior ordered the illegal action. There are monsters out there, while few, they are often in power, and a mere grunt can't possibly win a fight in law and politics.
5:11 obviously the defence of “only obeying orders” couldn’t possibly be used, even though Gen Patton expressly gave the verbal orders to kill the enemy without mercy even when surrendering, and the soldiers couldn’t disobey because that was disobeying a direct order (I don’t know if there was such a thing as an illegal order in WWII), a courts martial offence, so they were screwed either way.
It's almost like you're damned if you do, damned if you don't. Do you... inflict suffering to others? Or yourself? And your family? Or do you just kill yourself right then and there?
The torture the allies endured is beyond the pale... There seems to be no end to the incredible level of human evil by people in positions of power... If every population was disarmed, this would become common...
@@KazeHorse A dictator is no different from a legitimately elected democratic leader, they are both the result of the people wanting such a person. In the case of the dictator the people may not realize what it is they were wishing for, but they'll get it regardless and more than likely come to regret it.
A more modern war crime that is relatively unknown to young people nowadays is the Canadian torture in Somalia in 92 - 93 referred to as “the Somali affair”. A 16 year old Somali boy named Shidane Arone was caught hiding in a portable latrine in the abandoned American base across from the Canadian base. Arone was suspected of stealing food from the Canadian base and was tied up naked, waterboarded, burned, beaten, sodomized, and photographed. A soldier went to go check on him the next morning even though during the night “a long drawn out howl” was heard (the soldier who was in charge of checking didn’t want to get off his gameboy) because they recalled something like “if the boy dies then we all get in trouble”. Arone’s last words were “Canada, Canada, Canada!”. The Canadian army is alleged to have attempted to cover it up.
Canada also has a modern day trail of tears where native Americans girls are essentially lost to wolves in men's clothing and the Canadian government gives no fucks. People tell them about it, and they do that thing where they acknowledge you and what you said, but do nothing. How many more innocent tears until Canada decides to actually be progressive and not just woke?
One of the biggest war crimes was the Nanking Massacre, where the japanese took hostage one entire city in China during 6 weeks, rapping, torturing and killing civilians. A lot of the survivors ended suicinding because of the trauma. And to this day the japan government never apoligized and even deny some of the aspects of the massacre. I recommend the song 'Naking' by Exodus, for those who want to learn more about it.
"First rule of treating enemy POWS, is treat them fairly well, and give them proper fair trial." 🔽 "Second rule of treating enemy POWS, is give them proper appetites and proper treatment for them." "Third rule of treating enemy POWS, is give them a proper interrogation peacefully so they could cooperate and agree."
@@-Sierra117- I believe sun tsu had a similar quote in regards to POWs. Treat them well and when they return home they will tell of the fair treatment they received
@@-Sierra117- Absolutely not, if your treatment of your enemy is brutal and worse than death in battle, they will fight with much ferocity. If they know they will be treated humanely and with dignity, they won't fight to the bitter end. Every surrendered soldier is an allied soldier's life saved, be it by them not directly killing them, or by the intel you gather from them after surrender.
If I'm not correct about this in regards to the Bataan Death March, a US soldier by the name of Arthur Wermuth (idk if I spelled his last name right, correct me if I didn't) managed to avoid it because of one thing. His own determination saved his life, even though it got him badly injured as a result.
Very good job fellows!! Congratulations. War on its own is brutal but the fact that we have war crimes just shows how horrible our species can be sometimes!
remember, most of the japanese troops brought to trial were found guilty only to be released almost immediately in order to improve relations with the now conquered japanese. A good amount of these Japanese troops went on with their lives and regularly stated that what they had done was fine and that they would given another chance do it all over again, look up the bird of pow camps on mainland japan, Zamperini recounted his atrocities he committed to the Allied POWs, and in my opinion the guy should have been shot upon capture. but he was released, went on to make millions and state that given the chance he would do it again only 100x worse this time around..
Unit 751, Bataan death march and the rape of Nanking. All together does not match up to the Hiroshima bombing. Japan is very successful in minimizing there war atrocities while elevating any white European or especially American war atrocities
None of the allies atrocious behaviours and war crimes are mentioned in school books. Post WW2 Germany was raped and raped again. It's really awful to learn about.
@@velasquezbrothers West Berlin doesn't ring a bell does it Bud? The Yanks and French loved grasping and graping at German girls......not to mention the Marines who loved Okinawan girls......
My great grandfather was 1 of 11 men to walk out of the Palawan POW Camp. 139 others died at the hands of the Japanese on a day in 1944, by blades, bullets, and aircraft fuel.
Still do. Haoni Hilton and Abu Ghraib share a lot of similarities, and not really any punishment came of it either. They slapped some lower levels on the wrist, and one of the perpetrators was recently in the news complaining about not finding a job.
My Japanese great grandfather was a translator in the Bicol region, his unit burried one of the yamashita treasure together with some Filipinos for manpower. After the war he went back to the Philippines(the first Japanese immigrant after the war) to lived with his wife(Filipino), he met Marcos and ask him to find the treasure but he said he doesn't know the exact location because he didn't saw the map. But Marcos convinced him and gave him resources for the treasure hunt, after a year he gave up because he felt guilty with no result but his team continues to find the treasure.
Excellent video! This should be required learning for everyone to show that humans can be capable of intense evils. The Geneva Convention only applies to nice countries. Every soldier needs to understand that the enemy is not the same as them.
"No Mr Russian conscript you can't castrate me that's illegal the Geneva suggestions says so" Bold of you to assume paramilitaries and other asymmetrical warfare using groups are going to obey laws designed for a form of warfare last practiced in the 19th century
If I had to go through what some of these men went through I probably would've done the same thing. I probably wouldn't have eaten the enemy though unless I was *really* desperate.
[14:47 and 14:57] Filtered Translation: Battling Bastards of Bataan Disclaimer: This is done for people who are unsure with a full name of Bataan event in WW2 that is designed to overcome filtered slur words in the use for educational purposes.
These are KNOWN war crimes. With the leadership being very willing and motivated to cover up war crimes, imagine how many atrocities were successfully covered up. And will never be known to history. A chilling thought. A sad and brutal fact. Rest in peace to all the otherwise peaceful men and women sent to their deaths by corrupt and bloodthirsty governments.
True. I think a lot of unknown war crimes are often remembered by the survivors and families of the victims while being gaslighted by the perpetrators who got away with it.
@@space4166 I believe isreal hitman were sent to hunt a german SS doctor megalle, failed tho
no such thing as a peaceful man or woman.
not to mention that the russian soldiers thumbnail is CLICKBAIT
@@matthewyoung8314 yep, fucking bait. The only reason I clicked it.
Remember, it's not a war crime if you win.
It still is
They did it first, it’s called a uno reverse
wait did American win the Vietnam war ?
@@thienthutran1177 sadly, no the u.s did not win
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Ok guys it was a year ago, calm down.
That's why you wasn't executed, mr. Stalin, but maybe you should have.
Patton: "Show them no mercy. Kill them if they try to surrender."
Green soldier: *Shows no mercy; kills prisoners.*
Patton: "You weren't supposed to do that."
"The general directly ordered us to kill everyone that try to surrender."
Sorry you can't use that as a defence...
@@BF-I-II-V-V-III-VII Seems reasonable to me. I don't think I'd go through with it, but I don't blame those who would entirely.
Yes they were. No prisoners. No loose ends. It’s a job and it needs to get done correctly.
@@commandercorl1544 You have a duty to reject unlawful orders. 'My boss told me to commit a crime' doesn't fly in military court.
@@irishcoughy5916 It definitely doesn't, but at least I can see where they're coming from. A trusted general gives a motivational speech and mentions to shoot anyone who surrenders. You've been fighting in brutal conditions for weeks, and when the fighting ends there's prisoners. You remember the speech and their brutality and execute them. It's unjust, but understandable.
My great grandfather died in the Batan death march, I never knew much about it until now. Thank you.
It's not batan it's bata-an I'm from Philippines my grandpa also involved in the Japanese occupation of Philippines
War on its own is brutal but the fact that we have war crimes just shows how horrible our species can be sometimes
You ever go into nature? Animals are far worse than we could ever be.
Penguins especially are horrible
True, it's just to be dominant and to be feared.
This is why I eat all of my enemies in public places, if they fear me they'll leave me tf alone
Its not about the brutality Batman, it's about sending a message
My grandpop’s uncle survived the Bataan death march, my family only found out after they went through his things when he passed away.
must have been hard on him
Thank you for his service.
@Edward L. Bernays what?
@@mmmvtec90 edward was born in 1949.
@Edward L. Bernays hey there, 1952 model here 😁 Merry Christmas, fellow old person 🎄🎅🎄
We all know Patton absolutely knew what he was doing when holding that speech...
100%
Yes, he absolutely did. Fucking crazy he even did that speech.
@@Camilo_Zwhat can you expect, he was a mad lad
Karma took care of Patton
they did good work
The bataan death march is truly horrific and something i couldn't even bare to imagine going through. Poor souls.
Gotta love it how the officers always get off and the enlisted are the ones who are punished
dead right mate, us cannon fodder get it every time.
Officers fail upwards and keep getting promoted only to continue failing upwards on grander scales.
I was coming to say this. You’re right.
because most officers often came from a long line of military family and their parents and predecessors are friends and have served with someone from the top brass.
Despite that fact that the orders were "Kill those that surrender". Word for word.
I'm from the UK and I learned about WW2 in school. We never talked about any Allied war crimes though and only learned about the Holocaust. I'm glad we have channels like simple history so that we can learn about the war from both the Allied and Axis perspectives
Agreed there most likely to teach about the axis and what they did and some of there war crime while the allies side is more on the hush hush side
Because for the western allies part, they were negligible in comparison to what they were waging war to defeat, worst scale of crimes against humanity in the shortest time in human history so, its about the greatness that was done to defeat them really that is focused on, at least they don't omit the war crimes that did take place for their part in the end.
Shooting pows isn't exactly something schools might want to teach, something like genocide against millions of "unwanted" people is something tho
Yhea talk with my history teacher and he say that we don't have time too cover up all atrocities commit by the allies so that why we focused on the german and Japanese
@@kg7162 sure.... "don't have time"
My grandfather escaped the Bataan Death March and joined the guerillas fighting in the jungle. He had many stories about what the Japanese did during the war.
Utmost respect!
My great grandfather was nearly a part of that. He got an impacted wisdom tooth that nearly killed him from the infection. Was sent back to Manila for treatment. After that he was transferred to another infantry regiment and spent the war as reinforcements for the marshal island’s campaign.
Doubtful
In my opinion, they were worse than the Germans
How did he escape
"During the Second Sino-Japanese War the Imperial Japanese Army committed war crimes"
Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?
"Throughout WW2, the Germans used tanks."
@@fluttzkrieg4392"Durring the course of human history Hitler was alive" - Sun Tzu or Napolean, idk mabye even Hitler.
There is No War in Ba Sing Se
Is there any war where the japanese soldiers didn't commit several war crimes?
@@zarandadam1718 Russo-Japanese War and World War I? The Japanese actually treated Russian and German POWs well at that time.
The biggest tragedy of all is that the Japanese war crimes were forgotten, and were never truly punished for it unlike the Germans.
Edit: to the over 100 comments saying it, the nukes were not enough. They committed worse crimes than the Germans ever did.
What about the soviet war Crimes ? . They killed milions people but people don't care
All because of anime
Israel and America are much worse
Japan was 10 times worse aswell
@@annpyingshek4693 Anime is a war crime by itself.
In 1975 I enlisted in the Navy and was assigned to NAS Barber's Point Oahu HI. Was first in Squadron VR-21 a C-118 Transport and Admirals special aircraft group until it decommissioned in late 1976. Was then assigned to VC-1 a photographers and training unit. My XO and then later CO was Commander Gerald Coffee.........he retired as a Captain. He gave lectures to 'newbies' such as I about his experiences as a POW in the Hanoi Hilton for 7 plus years. He was one of the originators of the 'Tap Code' system. He was the ONLY Officer that I had any authentic respect for on the Naval Station and happily saluted him. All others were just obligations to superiors. LOVED him very much and was fortunate to have spoken with him for over an hour 4 months before he passed away at 88 years old.
my late grandfather was with the 57th infantry regiment (Philippine Scouts), and would always recount his escape story. he managed to run off into high grass with others, some of which died from the Japanese troops shooting at them. He still had this large scar on his back from a grazing round
I had never heard about Yamashita's gold, but that explains so much about the premise for Rook Island as the setting in Far Cry 3. "Why are there boxes of loot stashed in every random cave around this island?" Yamashita put them there. The skeletons and lost letters of WW2 soldiers always made sense to me, of course, but now knowing the full history with the stockpiled treasure, it really completes the picture.
Far cry 3 was one of the best and most fun games ive played. Such a good story
@@pieterpennings9371 Agreed, and it had one of the most interesting antagonists of all time. The combination of psychedelics and a psychopath made the game really fun to immerse yourself into. FC4 didn't do that quite as well as FC3, as the trips felt really separate from the main storyline, but the story on that one was still compelling enough on its own, luckily.
@@cheshirecynic3061 far cry 3 was just the goat and way ahead of its time. Im gonna replay it when i get a gaming pc again
@@pieterpennings9371 the new games being complete trash sucks tho, they stopped trying after FC3 and were able to do it again with FC4, but everything after that is various boring reskins
Wow I remember those boxes.
Thank you for touching base on Japanese War Crimes. Being Japanese myself I never believed any of the stories told by my non Japanese friends about Japanese war crimes in WW2 and dismissed it as propaganda. Our textbooks in Japan have no mention of it or completely embellish them. For example growing up we were taught that “comfort women” weren’t forced but volunteers who “handsomely” were paid by the Imperial Army. We were also taught that the Rape of Nanking, comfort women (women forced into sexual slavery by imperial japan), and other war crimes were embellishments created by the Chinese, Korean, and other former colonial governments out of jealousy for Japans economic growth following ww2. We often made obscene jokes about it during class and my fellow classmates would laugh along. It wasn’t until later in life that I decided to conduct a more objective investigation. Needless to say I’m greatly ashamed of my younger and immature self all those years ago. It worries me for future fellow Japanese generations as politicians are looking to erase such embellishments even further. Just recently in 2021 Japanese textbooks will no longer mention comfort women or the rape of Nanking as being associated with the Japanese military in WW2. History is riddled with embarrassment for every civilization that has ever existed. Erasing such memories only dooms humanity to repeat the same mistakes perpetually. It seems in the current global geopolitical climates the musings of war and paranoia are accelerating this trend.
At least you repented and saw the error of your ways which is more than what some would do so you've paid your dues then
Regardless you did not commit those crimes. So in the end you hold no fault or apology. Other then maybe not being reverent. Same logic as white men killed Indians 150 years ago so all white people must apologized today
wow that is insane propaganda really is a scary thing
@@crazychase98 It's more complex than that. If we profit from crimes and atrocities our ancestors committed it's fair to say we bear at least some degree of responsibility to at least try to put a dent in the damage they caused.
@@stormthrush37 Damage to who? There all dead and been dead. Indians that suffer now is from mostly drug use alcohol. A welfare which getting rid of welfare will help a lot of those issues
My great uncle was in the Bataan Death March. He has a autobiography he gifted to his family about his experience. Was very brutal and he miraculously survived.
Did it f up his head
@@Ratchet299 he was bound to a wheelchair after the war due to a mortar hurting him in combat. He wouldn’t say much in the years I knew him, I just read his autobiography. He wrote that they were all bound by chain and the enemy would shoot the people too weak to walk and it would make everyone else have to drag the bodies as it got heavier and heavier.
My grandfather killed 7 Japanese men then got killed after his name is Jose Dizon
Is this book public?
@@ChaosWithMarsunfortunately not, him and his brother wrote about the war as they were both in separate fronts. His brother was in Normandy and was the 2nd wave to storm the beaches. He was a medic and lost his gun in the battle. He also wrote that he found someone who’s leg was blown up and he had to use rusty scissors to cut the leg off so he could stop the bleeding. He was shot in the shoulder by a sniper in a graveyard and was sent home for his injuries. I wish I could remember all the exact accounts they wrote but it was very difficult to read at some parts
If there's anyone you absolutely don't want to be a captured by, it's the Japanese.
and if their is anyone you dont want to get bombed by its the americans
and the cartel
Or the Soviets.
Serbs
"don't get caught alive with the Japanese I hear they're freezing and thawing a ladies arm over and over to do experiments on her"
Yamashita was the only general who actualy treated his pows with respect, and specifically said no looting, no rape, no killing. But since he was commanding half a million troops, not all of them followed his orders. There is a vid on this guy's life
his trial was nothing but a fucking farce. The allied nations wanted revenge and that unfortunately went on Yamashita. the trial is on youtube i believe.
That's not 100% fact. It's unknown if he ordered it or not, or if he knew but it is known that he didn't actively try to stop anything
@@surfingbrrrdLies. He had executed many Japanese soldiers for disobeying the orders aforementioned. You don't disobey a Japanese General's orders without severe repercussions.
Besides, most Allied judges in trial were quite sympathetic to General Yamashita except for one big name, General MacArthur who had vetoed all rule in favor of sparing Yamashita from hanging.
The reason for this would most likely be attributed to General Yamashita's massive success against MacArthur's forces in the Philippines, which utterly embarrassed MacArthur and our country's history. This battle would be and still is our country's worst defeat in warfare since our inception.
There are other Japanese generals with honorable records such as General Kuribayashi and General Matsui, with similar orders as General Yamashita.
But you must understand the vast majority of instances no one treated POW's very humanely on both sides. Allies were far from saints and even killed over a million unarmed Wehrmacht POW's after the war had ended by forcibly starving them.
Dude, you heard of the nanking incident? Read up on Japanese atrocities please.
This makes you feel more thankful for the life we have. I wish clarity and happiness to you.
One thing I love about these videos is the attention to detail regarding uniforms, equipment, and whatnot. Bravo.
I can’t imagine being a soldier and expected to fight and under intense pressure of seeing your comrades and buddies getting killed you have to restrain yourself from getting revenge. Much respect to those who can.
1. (0:07) The Biscary Massacre 1943
Preperator:
- Captain John Thomas Compton(Free)
- Sergeant Horach Travis West(Sentence and Demotion)
2. (6:31) The Chichijima incident
Preperator:
- Lieutenant General Yoshio Tachibana(Comander)
Victim:
Lloyd Woellhof, Grady York, James “Jimmy” Dye, Glenn Frazier Jr., Marvell “Marve” Mershon, Floyd Hall, Warren Earl Vaughn, and Warren Hindenlang
escaped:
George HW Bush
3. (6:31) Bataan Death March
Preperator:
Imperial japanese Army
- General Masaharu Homa
- Colonel Masanobu tsuji
4. (22:53) Mystery of Yamashita Gold
Preoetrator:
- General Tomoyuki Yamashita
5. (30:05) The Hanoi Hilton Vietnam War
Prepetrator:
- Vietcong guerilla
- North Vietnamese Army
This is a great comment man. Thank you for not being lazy and caring enough to do this bro fr
I'm surprised there is no record of the bombing over children women and men with nuclear explosions. Nor the napalm over children.
Thanks for this great Comment
Hey just wanted to let you know you put the Chichijima time twice instead of 12:06 for the death March
I'm honestly surprised Unit 741 isn't on the list.
Great Uncle William Lee McMillan, Company M, 4th Marine Regiment, surrendered on Corregidor in 1942. He survived nearly three years as a POW of the Japanese. At least in body and just barely. Malaria paralyzed him from the waist down. Ulcers in his eyes rendered him virtually blind. He was rescued at Bilibid Prison, Manila in 1945 by the US Buckeye Infantry Division. Through intense physical therapy and surgery he was able to recover some of his sight and could shuffle walk by the time he was discharged. Needless to say, he was rated as permenantly disabled.
His time home was not good. He couldn't hold a job. His physical and mental disabilities drove him to drink. He was married briefly, and had a son. Tragically the boy died less than a year later and the marriage ended in a divorce. Then to add to his woes, his nephew, my grandfather, came home with a Japanese bride! That split the family horribly. Many treated Grandma either coldly or with outright hostility. One relative called my father, an baby at the time, "That J@p boy." Strangely enough, Uncle Bill was another exception. According to Grandma, he never had anything mean to say to her. Never raised his voice or even blame her for what happened to him, but he wouldn't stay in the room with her for very long.
Uncle Bill died in 1976, at the age of 64. The offical cause of death was heart failure, but we know it stemmed from his captivity. Part of him is still in the Philippines.
well, you can say that Great Uncle William was "corregido" right?, right?
Respect to your great uncle Bill 🇺🇸🦅
God rest his soul.
What a slap to your great uncles face.
😢
0:08 the biscari massacre ww2
6:33 the President who avoided beeing eaten by cannibals ww2
12:06 the Bataan death march ww2
22:52 the mystery of yamashitas gold
30:09 prison camp hanoi hilton in the vietnam war
And the thumbnail is russian soldiers...
@@Selzdyyyy I'm guessing that it displays the russian war crimes in the current ukraine war
@@Mark-ff8ck pretty sure there was no war crimes other then the one on 1st april i think
@@Selzdyyyy there are tons on both sides, war sucks.
@@Selzdyyyy did you see that video of the bomb being dropped on a russian sucking another russian off? That was a war crime!!!
As a german I'm quite surprised by these.
As far as histroy lessons in schools go the only japanese involvement in WWII we learn about is Pearl Harbour.
Only learned about various war crimes and the existence of unit 731 way after my school days.
It’s the same for me. Australian public school only taught us about the Holocaust and Pearl Harbour. I found out about Unit 731 and others later in life.
Did they teach you about the mandatory "re-education" i.e. brainwashing of your parents and grandparents by the USA and the Allies?
What about the UmVolkung of your Country in the past 80 years?
What about the UmVolkung of other White countries?
Ukraine is hard at work removing it's male population, will likely need some (non-white) young men after the war to rebuild and repopulate.
😂😂😂😂
because if every kid were taught these kind of thing at young ages, of all the warcrimes of their own country and others, they’ll only grow up in despair and guilt, or anger and rage
@@holmesholmes.8784I don't necessarily think that anger and rage would rise as a result of this as they'd learn that every country has their own skeletons in the closet.
Unlike the hatred between two nations like Serbia and Albania where little kids of both are indoctrinated from young ages that the others are evil.
Also, there are a ton of interesting stories that could get a lot of kids more involved in history like heroic battles, unlikely allies, etc.
My three favourites of specifically war history of all time:
- The christmas truce 1914/WWI
- 588th night bomber regiment (Soviet, WWII)
- Witold Pilecki (Auschwitz, inmate 4859, WWII)
Witolds Report: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold%27s_Report
@@AlTheWombat I suppose it's not evidently that kids learning about war crimes at young age would have substantial different responses, but if adults can have such drastic reactions, I don't think it is affordable to do a gamble on it until an educating formula can be found to lecture about these kinds of things.
And yes, there's a lot more to history than war crimes, at least a major part of it are taught down and the rest are optionally pursuitable for people with passions.
When your dad is a war criminal and no one has the balls to take him to court.
Edit: i cant believe that you took a joke se seriously...
Serbian national anthem intensifies
That song is sarcastic. But "peaceful" Europeans immediately think that bloodthirsty Serbs with a knife in their mouth sing that song, proud of their crimes.
@Stugna Bulah life certainly is precious, just seemingly not as much in war of retribution
He used to conquer Bosnia. You can try to convict him.
@@drew92gill life is only precious in the eyes of the beholder.
*Quite liking all these compilations. Great work as usual!*
3:22 dude took the thompson from his higher ranking (he took the gun from a first sergeant)
Prisoner 1: “What are y’all in for?”
Prisoner 2: “I robbed a bank, got caught.”
Prisoner 3: “I got caught selling meth.”
Sgt. West: “I double mag dumped 30 something enemy POWs.”
*Keep up the amazing work!!*
My father was in the CIC during the battle of the bulge. German soldiers ,dressed in American uniforms , were turned over to the CIC for interragation. How they got them to talk was pretty brutal.
Good
@@lessssssgooooo not
Only eternal torture is the optional thing for those dishonorable german subhumans.
it is a matter of fact very importet that they got them to talk in dutch we have a saying "het doel heiligt de middelen" the goal condones the means
@@daveyab4889 Meaning "the end justify the means"? Yeah tho it rarely is true, if ever.
Im surprised you left you the Japanese medical experiment units. That and Hanoi Hilton 😡 terrifying!
Patton: no mercy---
180th Regiment: understandable have a nice day
Good soldiers follow orders
I have enjoyed these animated clips for a couple years now ! Thanks guys you do good work 👍
Gotta love how ol 'blood and guts' Patton got away with ordering his boys to go out and be merciless killers that took no prisoners, then suggests the incidents be covered up, and SOMEHOW he didn't get in any trouble nor was the defense for both men considered 'applicable'. Funny how that goes.
Yup, hilarious.
You do realize he was just trying to inspire them
He didn’t actually mean murder them. Biscary was obviously not a war crime ordered by the higher ups but an individual unit action in which they were pissed off at the snipers who killed many of them. It certainly isn’t justified but Patton is not responsible, he was a scape goat and they failed at making that happen
Shame Patton didn't die sooner
@@fenfrostpaws2000 I wanted him to live
So he could keep the tanks rolling past Berlin up to Moscow
What do you expect from a country who initiated a program called Operation Paperclip? You see, power tends to consolidate in the hands of the few. This same structure of power creates unjust hierarchies that cannot be questioned. That's how you get Patton.
My step-dad dated a girl whose dad survived the Bataan death march, said he was the scariest man he'd ever known.
I just bet he was, can you imagine the things that man saw, did, had done to him or his buddies! Mad respect for any man that survived that bullshit!
Never understood why some nations try to downplay or cover up their war crimes. As a Canadian I feel we need to be aware of the crime our troops committed the village that was torched in Germany was shameful I'm grateful they forced the town evacuated before burning it down but then their was the reason our airborne division was disbanded in the 90s
Because that will lower morale
You can’t have low morale during wartime
And it’s not like these things happened very often (atleast for allied units, Soviet and axis units are different)
Partially what Luigi said, but it will also effect how the enemy will treat your men should they be captured.
@@luigimrlgaming9484 Low moral happens when people are in denial and lied too. The truth always comes full circle. Then people have low moral AND can't trust their own leaders.
Just be honest. Or are people cowards?
@@taramaforhaikido7272 Low Morale just happens when something happens that increase the chance of losing. You can feel low morale in a sports game when they score in the first 2 minutes.
@@luigimrlgaming9484 You're looking at short term. I'm talking long term. War is NOT a sports game that lasts 2 minutes. This is about TRUST.
If a leader can't be taken at their word then how can their word be trusted? If a leader deals with lies and secrets then where is their courage?
Sun Tzu lets people assume. Yet he knows to know the enemy. There's a big difference between assumptions and telling your own men to obey an order then trying to avoid accountability. Would you trust that? Future wars happen. People look back on history. How can they trust their leaders when there's always some backstabber and turn coat betraying their own troops?
Compare that to someone that hides nothing. Wanting their enmies to know they're coming. And knowing that nothing can be done to stop them. Provided that turns out to be true then that's a much better example to set. One of bravery and courage. Or if not that at least honesty and responsability. People will follow a weak leader if they are honest. People won't follow a strong leader if they are a lying two faced coward that doesn't even admit what they do. And secrets always get revealed in the end. It might not be soon, but in the end it WILL get found out. That's when the troops of today smell blood in the water. Leading to rebellions and fighting your own.
In northern Italy on 15 December 1944 after a clash in the town of Calbana in which the polish soldiers suffered significant losses against a platoon of Italians from the 8th Bersaglieri Regiment, the Poles surrounded the town and killed two wounded Italian soldiers (they were 15/16 years old) and put all the prisoners against the wall to be shot, the English officer arrived just in time and saved all the prisoners; unfortunately many events like these will remain known by few because they are countless all over the world
It’s sad but some of those POWS kinda didn’t deserve to breathe the same air as you n I!
Lets not even mention the rapes that the allies commited
@@cloutmastermemes2007 Things like these generate deep wounds among the peoples of the various countries in which these things happened, they will always remember if their enemy behaved like a villain or an adversary
The Poles were MERCILESS when it came to POWs. Considering the fact that the Axis planned to completely exterminate their nation, I can't exactly blame them.
@@scottkrafft6830 tf ? what does Italy have to do with the Poles? I wonder why you don't inform yourself before shooting this bullshit. Italy has never set foot in Poland so the Poles would have had no reason to shoot two Italian prisoners
In Jr. High a teacher of mine told us what her husband had endured as a POW in a Japanese Camp.
What was horrifying was the prisoners weren't given food or at least rarely. Her husband and other POWs ate human waste to assuage the pain of hunger.
As far as I'm concerned all sides did unnecessary and unspeakable things to enemy combatants whether they were being held in POW camps or not.
Civilians who were loyal American Citizens were rounded up and held in (internment camps) but were in fact concentration camps by a nicer name on U.S. soil and not treated as if they were actually enemies without proof.
Timely and appropriate medical was almost non existant.
After the war many found the property they'd owned prior to the war had been confiscated and sold. I am not sure if any of them were compensated for the losses or if they just had to start from scratch.
Like I stated all sides in all wars have done unspeakable things to those they called enemy.
In fact the expansion of the original 13 colonies came at the expense of the lives of not just healthy young men who fought for their tribes but the elderly and young children and their mothers were attacked in villages and hiding places.
For the longest time the U.S. Government framed the expansion as a great effort battling savages who fought to hold on to their territorial areas.
The movie Avatar explains it simply. When someone has something you want. Just call them savages not worth caring about anything.
I’ve played games that have a Vietnam themed map or game mode, and when they mentioned the lady with propaganda I legitimately got goosebumps. They have some of those exact same voice lines in the games. Hanoi Hannah.
I just realized that the Sergeant in the Biscari Massacre just snatched the gun from a First Sergeant 💀
I have a problem with holding grunts accountable while allowing leaders off the hook.
They still folowed orders.
They were still willing to commit the tourture.
Despite being JUST THE SAME as they men they were abusing. They did it, instead of standing up to said leadership.
10 officers in a camp with 30-40 enlisted....they could ABSOUBTLY stand up and stop the tourtures. IF they had been GOOD PEOPLE and refused to abuse people who Were Just Like Them.
Folloing their order, Just Like Them.
Doimg their duty, Just Like Them.
Truth is, weather through cowardice or Evil. The tourturers AGREED to commit these atrocities.
@@dd11111 Imagine actually making an argument that the leaders (who force these things on their grunts) are fine to face no punishment and not realizing halfway through how stupid it makes you sound.
@@arandompasserby7940 or imagine not knowing what the word "weather" means😂
@@jackryan4313 I never used "weather" or "whether" once in either of my comments here, so I literally have no clue what you're going on about.
@@jackryan4313 um, what?
There's a ton of videos circulating around the internet now of war crimes from conflicts across the globe. From torture to just straight executions. Some of them that I've seen are horrific, like cutting eyes out and castrations, it makes the executions look tame 😥
@Julian of course you have the joker pfp
I've seen both videos you are talking about. They are absolutely brutal and if I remember correctly the eye-gouging one was committed by a Ukrainian soldier. There's plenty of videos of Russians gunning down civillians trying to escape among other things. It's absolutely depraved.
@@axelaugust5552 and he actually painted it himself lmao
@@roguebogey I've seen the castration vid, but have yet to find the eye gouging one.
@@tearthemhindpartsup where can I find them ?
To do list for upcoming one, thanks mate.
Ferb, I know what we can do this summer!
Phineas and Ferb go to Bosnia.
@@capncake8837 And Chechnya
3:16 man put that thrown cigarette on the ground in slow motion like it meant something
That dude unloading the clip and reloading it meant business
*magazine
Thank you for doing this! I have been waiting for you to do a BATAAN Death March episode! Means a lot to me because my Grandpa was a Filipino POWs captured. His name was Marino aka Marine Unite. The Filipinos got released, he then joined a guerrilla group to fight the Japanese.
The thumbnail combined with the title is comedy gold. It's like a freeze frame from south park out of context.
Like those family guy funny moments
@@abandonthis exactly
There is a difference between committing acts in the heat of battle or just after when the red mist is down and when it is co-ordinated by officers after the fact. When it is instigated by officers after the fact it is unforgivable.
It’s crazy how the Biscari Massacre wasn’t talked about when I went through school.
its easily the most tame in my opinion🤷♂️seems to only be relevant because it was commited by the allied powers
That Chad who claimed he was Clark Kent to the Vietnamese lol. "OK you got me I admit it! My name is Clark Kent I was a reporter for the Daily Planet! My wife's name is Lois Lane and my best friend is a dark and gloomy rich playboy!"
LOVING THE LONGER VIDEOS
My Grand-Uncle served his time in Nam, he was captured twice by the NVA. One of those times, his toenails were completely removed slowly and painfully by North Vietnamese using Sharpened Bamboo. He is alive and well today.
I mean it's no surprise he was captured by a bunch of filthy communists. I'm glad to hear he is alive and well man.
Well your Grand Uncle invaded their homeland.....he would have tortured any morons who invaded the USA exactly if not worse
But how does his fingernails look like now?
@@שגרירותאוזבקיסטןבישראל they grow back
albeit traumatized
Salute to my grandfather, a survivor of the Bataan Death March. He persevered in battle until General Douglas MacArthur's return. I am fortunate to have heard his story. He harbored intense anger towards General MacArthur, whom he accused of deserting them during the battle. His indignation was such that he named my father after him.
Patton: Kill each and everyone of those bastards with no mercy!
West and Compton: Say less *Commits war crimes*
Patton: Wow, that's messed up.
West and Compton: Hold up, this whole operation was your idea.
Dunno if this one showed up here but a couple came in my mind
The Tukhchar massacre, Chechclear and reports of chechens (or someone similar) gutting and tying up prisoners to each other using their intestines.
I think Chechclear was a actually unrelated to the wars in Chechnya.
@@capncake8837 No, it featured conscripts caught by enemy forces. probably from the first war.
imagine how many psychopaths were drafted and given their chance to commit their darkest desires during the war
It's still happening. In Ukraine Russia was accused (with video evidence) of locking in and burning hundreds of Ukrainian POWs inside of a warehouse while they were sleeping. Things like this are in humanities nature unfortunately
@@roguebogey where do i find the video??
@@roguebogey thats why you should never surrender. it is most likely guaranteed that you will die a more painful death in a pow camp than you would fighting. even then, with fighting theres still a chance you can survive it. pows always face the worst brutality of the war
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by the way: those orcs are the most disgusting creatures on Earth because what they did in Olenivka is just a part of that series crimes what the commit in UA
take a look what they commited yesterday: th-cam.com/video/9wBNto_IhEQ/w-d-xo.html
@@niggilywiggily psychopath
Kinda wish this channel covered more ground when it comes to war stories all over the world. There are hundreds of countries that have similar stories that need to be brought to light.
Good job Patton! Who could have guessed "Show no mercy!" will turn into shooting POWs
Can't believe it was possible that over forty men could be killed with one mag of 30 cartridges. I do think other solders helped the guy
Did you know that sometimes bullets go through people?
Some of the men laid down to try and survive. Remember, he RELOADED, and emptied a SECOND MAG. Also, only 35 people.
@@unwnme like that time everyone went through your mom?
60-61 rounds to 35 men.
@@unwnme Thompson shoots .45 acp they better be huddled like pigs in a cage for a 30 to 40 efficiency it’s a fat slow bullet for stopping power not piercing he prolly didn’t just use one mag tho or used a drum tbh 😅
Biscari Massacre: Officer gets off Scott free, Enlisted Soldier gets imprisoned and reduced rank. That type of Justice still exists today. It’s better to have a college degree and become an officer than go in at 18.
They both should’ve been executed by firing squad for what they did to those pows truly disgusting that whole company should’ve been behind bars after the war
My Grandpa was in the bataan march He escaped by Acting dead when they lined them up to shoot He time just right and dropped to the ground right before the bullet hit him
Knowing Vietnam is the only country that traumatized the US is quite impressive and terrifying at the same time.
Huh? We definitely did it back
Well Afghanistan can be counted among those ranks now I'd say
It's because of baby boomers, funnily enough.
@@birdperson2540 Not even close to the same level
It was much MUCH worse for Vietnam according to my grandma
A crime is a crime. Doesn't matter if Axis did those or the allied. Punishment is must for the perpetrators irrespective of their country and origin
Not if it is against an "Evil" state. The common people have no say. We're just expected to comply and obey. Good morals are punished by getting jailed or worse these days, and even back in the day. If your superior tells you to do evil, what is one to do? It's a damned either way, and I myself would rather live in shame than be destroyed because I chose the moral high ground. So I can understand when some people say, "I was just following orders." as the alternative could mean, well, you could become a scapegoat or merely have the anger of those who could be found out projected upon you. Or worse if your superior ordered the illegal action. There are monsters out there, while few, they are often in power, and a mere grunt can't possibly win a fight in law and politics.
5:11 obviously the defence of “only obeying orders” couldn’t possibly be used, even though Gen Patton expressly gave the verbal orders to kill the enemy without mercy even when surrendering, and the soldiers couldn’t disobey because that was disobeying a direct order (I don’t know if there was such a thing as an illegal order in WWII), a courts martial offence, so they were screwed either way.
Then he died at the end of the war. Car accident after a long war. Hmmmmm
It's almost like you're damned if you do, damned if you don't. Do you... inflict suffering to others? Or yourself? And your family? Or do you just kill yourself right then and there?
Why was there no mention of shotguns in WW1? Sounds a little kaiserphobic to me
The torture the allies endured is beyond the pale... There seems to be no end to the incredible level of human evil by people in positions of power... If every population was disarmed, this would become common...
we are only ever one dictator away from returning to this reality.
If the world was disarmed you wouldnt be talking on here like you are now. Say goodbye to your rights 🤣
Bruhhhh
America has commited tonna war crimes but you know what, they WON so they ddint get punished!
Specially the soviet union
@@KazeHorse A dictator is no different from a legitimately elected democratic leader, they are both the result of the people wanting such a person. In the case of the dictator the people may not realize what it is they were wishing for, but they'll get it regardless and more than likely come to regret it.
A more modern war crime that is relatively unknown to young people nowadays is the Canadian torture in Somalia in 92 - 93 referred to as “the Somali affair”. A 16 year old Somali boy named Shidane Arone was caught hiding in a portable latrine in the abandoned American base across from the Canadian base. Arone was suspected of stealing food from the Canadian base and was tied up naked, waterboarded, burned, beaten, sodomized, and photographed. A soldier went to go check on him the next morning even though during the night “a long drawn out howl” was heard (the soldier who was in charge of checking didn’t want to get off his gameboy) because they recalled something like “if the boy dies then we all get in trouble”. Arone’s last words were “Canada, Canada, Canada!”. The Canadian army is alleged to have attempted to cover it up.
Canada also has a modern day trail of tears where native Americans girls are essentially lost to wolves in men's clothing and the Canadian government gives no fucks. People tell them about it, and they do that thing where they acknowledge you and what you said, but do nothing. How many more innocent tears until Canada decides to actually be progressive and not just woke?
As a US Marine stationed in Japan right now, this video makes me feel sick to my stomach.
Wait, you didn’t know about Japanese atrocities before?!
@@aka99 a lot of western don't
Most Okinawan people don't consider themselves Japanese, at least that's what I heard. They rather be their own people.
@@aka99 I do know but it's an uneasy feeling no matter what
@@Legatus2kx I'm on mainland
One of the biggest war crimes was the Nanking Massacre, where the japanese took hostage one entire city in China during 6 weeks, rapping, torturing and killing civilians. A lot of the survivors ended suicinding because of the trauma. And to this day the japan government never apoligized and even deny some of the aspects of the massacre. I recommend the song 'Naking' by Exodus, for those who want to learn more about it.
"First rule of treating enemy POWS, is treat them fairly well, and give them proper fair trial." 🔽
"Second rule of treating enemy POWS, is give them proper appetites and proper treatment for them."
"Third rule of treating enemy POWS, is give them a proper interrogation peacefully so they could cooperate and agree."
Absolute nonsense
@@-Sierra117- I believe sun tsu had a similar quote in regards to POWs. Treat them well and when they return home they will tell of the fair treatment they received
@@-Sierra117- Absolutely not, if your treatment of your enemy is brutal and worse than death in battle, they will fight with much ferocity. If they know they will be treated humanely and with dignity, they won't fight to the bitter end.
Every surrendered soldier is an allied soldier's life saved, be it by them not directly killing them, or by the intel you gather from them after surrender.
@@-Sierra117- "I am smart" 💪🤓
Japanese:"Top 10 🧢's"
great video, this is the first time i'd heard of the Biscari Massacre. i knew GHWB was shot down but didn't know he avoided being cannibalized.
It's not really a big deal. Almost everyone I know has avoided being cannibalized.
@@Well-thatmakessense get bent, helmet!
@@levisguy53 angry lil fella, aren't ya?
The Laconia incident should be 1 where the USAAF attacked a Surfaced U-Bout flying a red cross flag, and towing the surviviors of a cruise ship
If I'm not correct about this in regards to the Bataan Death March, a US soldier by the name of Arthur Wermuth (idk if I spelled his last name right, correct me if I didn't) managed to avoid it because of one thing. His own determination saved his life, even though it got him badly injured as a result.
Very good job fellows!! Congratulations.
War on its own is brutal but the fact that we have war crimes just shows how horrible our species can be sometimes!
True
Trash wording your part of “our species” .these are different ethnic groups so different ways of fighting are going to happen
remember, most of the japanese troops brought to trial were found guilty only to be released almost immediately in order to improve relations with the now conquered japanese. A good amount of these Japanese troops went on with their lives and regularly stated that what they had done was fine and that they would given another chance do it all over again, look up the bird of pow camps on mainland japan, Zamperini recounted his atrocities he committed to the Allied POWs, and in my opinion the guy should have been shot upon capture. but he was released, went on to make millions and state that given the chance he would do it again only 100x worse this time around..
Good thing we bombed the Bushido out of them.
Based.
@アフタヌーンヌアクショット
Should I repeat myself? I know sometimes we gotta drop the bomb twice for you to get the message.
@@Turd_Burglar804 I wish I could have seen that dumbasses comments cuz this was hilarious
Unit 751, Bataan death march and the rape of Nanking. All together does not match up to the Hiroshima bombing. Japan is very successful in minimizing there war atrocities while elevating any white European or especially American war atrocities
Man's making the Geneva convention look like a checklist
fun fact: the biscari massacre isn't even mentioned once in school history books.
None of the allies atrocious behaviours and war crimes are mentioned in school books. Post WW2 Germany was raped and raped again. It's really awful to learn about.
@@unwnme cope
@@unwnme could you tell me an example?
@@velasquezbrothers no. No he can't.
@@velasquezbrothers West Berlin doesn't ring a bell does it Bud?
The Yanks and French loved grasping and graping at German girls......not to mention the Marines who loved Okinawan girls......
My great grandfather was 1 of 11 men to walk out of the Palawan POW Camp. 139 others died at the hands of the Japanese on a day in 1944, by blades, bullets, and aircraft fuel.
That's insane I never new gorge bush was almost eaten by japanese soldiers that's fascinating
Even animated this was quite disturbing to watch, may God be with those victims and their families.
What I did appreciate is that it showed Allied war crimes too, because they weren't exempt of that either.
Still do. Haoni Hilton and Abu Ghraib share a lot of similarities, and not really any punishment came of it either. They slapped some lower levels on the wrist, and one of the perpetrators was recently in the news complaining about not finding a job.
They only show one of the many the alies Comited ,that sounds Fair to you?
Omg I live off a road called "General Patton Lane" and didnt realise what story is behind it. Scary
There is sooo much more to General Patton than this one story. Get off social media and read your history!
Tbagging the enemy is considered warcrime
My Japanese great grandfather was a translator in the Bicol region, his unit burried one of the yamashita treasure together with some Filipinos for manpower. After the war he went back to the Philippines(the first Japanese immigrant after the war) to lived with his wife(Filipino), he met Marcos and ask him to find the treasure but he said he doesn't know the exact location because he didn't saw the map. But Marcos convinced him and gave him resources for the treasure hunt, after a year he gave up because he felt guilty with no result but his team continues to find the treasure.
“The Bataan death March was one of the worst crimes in the pacific”
China: 😐
It’s never a war crime the first time😂
War, war never changes.
On the topic of war crimes can you guys make a video about the Katyn Massacre?
Thank you for your animation history, it is very entertaining and educational, please keep it up👍. thank you. I ❤ simple history.
I just discovered this channel. Great content!
Never surrender to the Japanese. Ever.
Yup
So instead of having a chance to break out of prison you'd rather eat a bullet between the eyes?
I'm not afraid. You are.
Duh
Never surrender period
Excellent video! This should be required learning for everyone to show that humans can be capable of intense evils.
The Geneva Convention only applies to nice countries. Every soldier needs to understand that the enemy is not the same as them.
uh... Geneva applies to everyone, tf did you smoke
That's a lot of words
@@dj11o9er Better change your mindset for your own survival!
@@crusader.survivor its not a mindset, it is literally law...
"No Mr Russian conscript you can't castrate me that's illegal the Geneva suggestions says so"
Bold of you to assume paramilitaries and other asymmetrical warfare using groups are going to obey laws designed for a form of warfare last practiced in the 19th century
If I had to go through what some of these men went through I probably would've done the same thing.
I probably wouldn't have eaten the enemy though unless I was *really* desperate.
what is a rule put in place because of you?
Patton:"hold my Beer"
[14:47 and 14:57] Filtered Translation: Battling Bastards of Bataan
Disclaimer: This is done for people who are unsure with a full name of Bataan event in WW2 that is designed to overcome filtered slur words in the use for educational purposes.
Ok?
This is what happens when orders are mindlessly followed! Criminal higher ups to commit horrible atrocities!