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Dave Smith[_1_]

On 2018-12-13 2:52 p.m., wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 12:12:06 -0500, Dave Smith
> > wrote:

>> I knew a guy who had been subjected to really atrocious behaviour by the
>> Japanese in a POW camp. The people of Nanking, China can tell you
>> about the atrocities committed by the Japanese there. I don't think
>> they got back anywhere near as they had handed out.
>>
>>
> Having an uncle who was on HMS Exeter sunk in the China Sea after the
> Battle of the River Plate and who went on to serve 5 years in the
> mines in Nagasaki - he reported that within their limits the guards
> were good, the living was brutal but the guards lived no better than
> them, being a guard was not considered an honourable occupation by the
> Japanese.

> Nanking was in 1937, not part of WWII.

I am sorry that you are confused about the context. I was referring to
the atrocities committed by the Japanese. I did not say that Nanking was
part of WW II, despite the causal relationship. The fact remains that
the Japanese soldiers systematically brutalized, murdered, raped and
mutilated as many as 300,000 Chinese civilians. Whether or not it was
technically part of WW II is irrelevant.