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.

Mike