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Hidden Horrors - Japanese War Crimes in World War II (Hardcover)
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Hidden Horrors - Japanese War Crimes in World War II (Hardcover)
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This book documents for the first time previously hidden Japanese
atrocities in World War II, including cannibalism; the slaughter
and starvation of prisoners of war; the rape, enforced
prostitution, and murder of noncombatants; and biological warfare
experiments. The author describes how desperate Japanese soldiers
consumed the flesh of their own comrades killed in fighting as well
as that of Australians, Pakistanis, and Indians. Another chapter
traces the fate of 65 shipwrecked Australian nurses and British
soldiers who were shot or stabbed to death by Japanese soldiers.
Thirty-two other nurses, who landed on another island, were
captured and sent to Sumatra to become aEUROoecomfort
womenaEURO-prostitutes for Japanese soldiers. Tanaka recounts how
thousands of Australian and British POWs died in the infamous
Sandakan camp in the Borneo jungle in 1945. Those who survived were
forced to endure a tortuous 160-mile march on which anyone who
dropped out of line was immediately shot. Only six escapees lived
to tell the tale. Based on exhaustive research in previously closed
archives, this book represents a landmark analysis of Japanese war
crimes. The author explores individual atrocities in their broader
social, psychological, and institutional milieu and places Japanese
behavior during the war in the broader context of the
dehumanization of men at war-without denying individual and
national responsibility.
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