How do you think Germany, Italy, and Japan viewed the appeasing attitude of other nations?
The same way anyone with elitist and xenophobic attitudes would view anyone who is complicit. Some one they can easily walk over... I find is amazing that when it comes to Hitler and Nazi Germany people focused soley on the Germans hatred towards the Jews and the Blacks (think Olympics). They were not content on creating a "master race" particularly in Germany, Italy, Japan..etc. They wanted to eradicate and limit the powers of various ethnic groups. Hitler wanted to create a master race of blonde "aryan" Germanic people. How many Europeans are blonde and Germanic? Lets be honest....most Europeans are Eurasian. A good percentage of Europeans have African and Arab bloodlines... He saw them as weak and easy to manipulate. IF he was successful it would have poltically and economically descimated Europe. WWII is really fascinating....I really do think taking time to understand one of our most recent world wars would give us an opportunity to see..what may lie in the future... good question..u sparked my interest Hmm...I said most not all =) What is your definition of Eurasian anyways? I disagree with many of your points...I dont have to be European to disagree. Hilter didnt have to be a strategic planner he was a figure head.
What would've happened if NAZI Germany, Italy, and Japan won the World War II?
There are many things that would be different. One such thing is that wars would be fought in the old-fashioned way without all of the inconvenience of human rights. If there was a country where the people were poor and starving, the Nazis would simply kill everyone in that country and give the land to well organized and well educated Arians. If the muslims started uprisings, they would all be killed. The trains and airplanes would run on time. There would be no "mid-east crisis" where Jews and Arabs would be continuously fighting each other. All Semites (decendents of Abraham=Jews and Arabs) would simply be killed, thus ending what seem to us today to be endless wars. We wouldn't have an overpopulation problem in the world. We would be taught in school that things would have been worse if the Nazis had been defeated. You would be posting the question, "What would've happened if the Nazis had been defeated?" And I would be describing the sorry state of affairs that the world is in now.
Who were more hated by Americans in WW2: Germany or Japan?
That Japanese were hated more, without a doubt. They committed such horrible acts such as the Rape of Nanking, the Bataan Death March, beheaded POW’s, took many thousands of comfort women, and more. Not to mention the fact that if they were wounded, they would try to blow up our medics and corpsmen when they went out to tend to their wounds. That was seen on the HBO show “The Pacific.” The things they would do to Allied troops they got a hold of is nightmarish. If they weren’t taken to a POW camp or kept on those horrid troop ships, they were tortured and killed in the most gruesome ways. They would have their genitals cut off and stuffed in their mouths, with their bodies being left lying in a heap for our troops to find.Nobody wants to see that, so seeing something so gruesome happen to your buddies is enough to fill you full of hatred. The WWII veterans who are still alive, carry those images even after 70+ years of witnessing them. In the book “Flags of Our Fathers,” there were several excerpts of what happened to Doc Bradley’s friend Ignatowski “Iggy” on Iwo Jima. Not much was said because he never talked about it. But others who found his body talked about the wounds on Iggy’s body. They said that his fingernails were ripped out, both arms fractured, his eyes gouged out, his ears cut off, his tongue ripped out, and so on… But one of his kids mentioned going to Japan and that Doc should visit. This clearly agitated Bradley and as he rustled his change in his pockets, he said, “They cut off my friend’s penis and stuffed it in his mouth…” It’s been awhile since I read the book, but that part has always stood out to stood out to me.Another thing that needs to be mentioned is that R.V. Burgin, a Marine and WWII veteran who fought in several battles said that he would hate the Japanese soldier until his last breath. He saw the same things that Doc saw and even as a 95 year old man still holds such hatred for the Japanese soldier. He’s not alone either.Veteran R.V. Burgin Fought In 'The Pacific'Historical Accuracy of Flags of Our Father Part 2
How were Japanese Americans treated in the USA during World War II?
During WW2, Japanese-Americans were treated with constant suspicion. The government and populace were convinced that they all still held some latent loyalty to the Emperor, so each and every person of Japanese descent, even if they were only part-Japanese, was assumed to be a threat to national security.This paranoia culminated after Pearl Harbor, when basically the entire Japanese-American population of the western US was relocated to “internment camps”. They had to leave behind their homes, their jobs, most of their belongings, and their friends. The conditions in these camps varied depending on which government entity was in charge of them, but generally sucked. The buildings were hastily thrown together, and didn’t provide nearly enough space for families. They were located in deserts and other hot, barren places, in a time before air conditioning. Disease was a serious concern due to overcrowding. A token effort was made to provide educational facilities for the children, and there were activities like sports and gardening for the adults, but life in the camps was extremely tedious.There were only two ways out. If you were a college student, you could transfer to a school in the eastern part of the country, away from the “exclusion zones”. If you were a second-generation male, and determined to be sufficiently “Americanized” by the government’s standards, you could get into one of the Army’s Japanese-American divisions. Of course, they couldn’t be deployed in the Pacific, so they were sent to Europe instead. These men served with great distinction, motivated by a desire to prove their worth and loyalty to their country.So basically, it was not fun to be a Japanese-American during the war. But as they say, shikata ga nai. They just lived with it until they were finally let out of the camps in 1945. Eventually, in 1988, the government owned up and paid reparations to the surviving former detainees. But it’s still an ugly scar on our history.