mtfester@netscape.net wrote in message news:<bh250r$s3h$9@news.Stanford.EDU>...
> Rindler Sigurd <srindler@da2.so-net.ne.jp> wrote:
> >> I would say from all that I read that though the Japanese didn't have
> >> the "Mass Production" mentality to murder, some of the individual
> >> atrocities they committed were just as bad as the Nazis and some of them
> >> even worse <ManChuKuo (sorry if misspelled) comes to mind with the
> >> "medical experiments" they conducted on the Manchurians.>
>  
> > I don't think one can grade it by "bad-worse-worst". The concentration camp
> > doctor (Dr. Mengele) conducted the most cruel and senseless experiments on
> > humans like testing the time a human body can resist ice water until
> > death... listed by gender, age, body weight and such.
> > Or tests by injecting various amounts of gasoline while precisely observing
> > the reactions by the victims and such.
> > Who knows what else had been done. A lot was never released in full for
> > public consumption...
> 
> Right, the Japanese barbarity was more "run-of-the-mill"; the sort of
> petty atrocities (putting aside the scale) that had been (and still is)
> practiced from time immemorial. The German model of applying then-modern
> industrial methodology, even when it demonstrably interfered with the war
> effort, frightened people out of their apathy.
> 
Also, I think the fact that almost immediately after the war China
became part of the 'enemy' has a strong effect on how much people
knew/believed or wanted to know/believe.

John W.