World War Two
Published 20 May 2021The inhuman, torturous, and deadly Japanese PoW Camps famous from Bridge over the River Kwai, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Empire of the Sun, and more recently Unbroken are a world of abuse and mistreatment managed by willfully incompetent and sadistically brutal men.
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Source list: http://bit.ly/WW2sourcesHosted by: Spartacus Olsson
Written by: Spartacus Olsson and Joram Appel
Director: Astrid Deinhard
Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson
Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson, Bodo Rittenauer
Creative Producer: Maria Kyhle
Post-Production Director: Wieke Kapteijns
Research by: Joram Appel
Edited by: Miki Cackowski
Sound design: Marek Kamiński
Map animations: Eastory (https://www.youtube.com/c/eastory)Colorizations by:
Mikołaj Uchman
Daniel WeissSources:
Yad Vashem 4613/666, 4572/3
IWM ART 15747 42, 16712 (1), 15747 91, LD 7187, 15747 83
Picture of Corporal Rod Breavington, courtesy of Michael Clayton-Jones
Pictures of Allied POWs at Fukuoka camp, courtesy of Roger Mansell, Palo Alto, CASoundtracks from the Epidemic Sound:
Jon Bjork – “Disposal”
Cobby Costa – “Flight Path”
Philip Ayers – “Trapped in a Maze”
Wendel Scherer – “Growing Doubt”
Wendel Scherer – “Defeated”
Fabien Tell – “Last Point of Safe Return”
Gunnar Johnsen – “Not Safe Yet”
Jon Bjork – “Icicles”
Philip Ayers – “Under the Dome”Archive by Screenocean/Reuters https://www.screenocean.com.
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From the comments:
World War Two
1 day ago
While the Japanese camp system is fairly well known to anyone with a cursory interest in WW2, their inner workings from a Japanese viewpoint are much less explored than the German camps in Europe. It’s easy to chalk that up to language barriers, but when I scratch the surface only a little bit during my research, something else comes to light. The huge difference between Germany and Japan at this time. The German system was driven by individuals forming a system to serve their murderous intent, while the Japanese system used individuals within a well established hierarchic system of abuse to fulfill their goals of subjugation and punishment. You should however not infer a lesser amount of personal responsibility because of that, or because we have a harder time describing the perpetrators as people — the Japanese camp commandants, and guards were faced with the same daily choices as the Germans: Do I strike, or do I not? Do I torture, or do I not? Do I murder or do I not? Failing to choose to act out against the inmates was never cause for punishment or falling out of favor, and violence was never the only choice available to keep order. So if you are looking for individual culpability, it’s just as present here as it was there. That said, it’s always important to remember that it was not the Japanese people as a whole who perpetrated these acts, but individuals with the freedom of choice to do so or not.Spartacus
