Comments by "" (@MayaTheDecemberGirl) on "China Made a ‘Japan-Town’ then Destroyed it, Here’s Why" video.
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Of course, I know the history and I've read about genocide acts committed then. Nevertheless, the consequences of the war started by Japanese and their acts during this war was also the dropping of the atomic bombs, in result of which all the civilians, no matter who they were, including women, children or infants perished in horrible sufferings, and those that survived still suffered a lot for many years. The scenes, pictures, films of this, as we all know, are horrible. So always in wars, started by various regimes now and then, in the end, as a consequence suffer the most the weakest, especially civilians, women, children, elder etc.
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@lindarussell4735 Well, I know much about the Second World War. I come from the country that suffered the most, from both Germans and Russians (cooperating with each other in invasion, in September 1939, on basis of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact), during the war, where multiple terrible, unimaginable, inhuman mass genocide acts were committed by both of these invadors in that times. And most of the people in my country know a lot about the Second WW (much more then people from Western European countries), also about campaigns, fronts in different countries, battles etc. - as our soldiers fought in many war fronts, in many important battles, in various countries during the Second WW. And history is very important to us, as we need to remember the suffering and sacrifice of so many.
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You know, despite all the development some people, of some nations, haven't unfortunately changed. Watching the pictures and scenes from the invaded Ukraine is like watching the scenes from the II World War, in countries which were then invaded by the Soviet Union. The same pictures, the same scenes - of genocide, crimes against humanity, mass graves of victims, destruction, rapes, violence, torturing of innocent people, killing of civilians, stealing, and so on. Although almost 80 years passed, it looks like nothing has changed. And it's tragic. Now we can see that all these aggresive imperialisms indeed tend to escalate, which is so sad, that even after all horrible things that the humanity already experienced in the past, especially the II WW, still nothing has really changed.
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@yangqingluo6577 Actually, about Germany it is not really so nice as it seems. After the war, they maybe cared more about Israel, but not about the other countries and nations, despite enourmous harms they caused to them during the war and occupation. In fact, they did nothing to repair the harms and damages caused, so to restore justice. For instance, in Poland they killed about 6 milion of Polish citizens, about half of them were ethnically Polish. Polish were the second nationality, after the Jews, with the greatest number of victims murdered by Germans in Auschwitz (and also in so many other German mass death concentration camps). They ruined the whole country. After the fall of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 they completely destroyed, as a punishment to the nation, the capital - Warsaw (more then 80% of Warsaw was completely destroyed, in ruins). They never paid any war reparations for these enormous harms. They even haven't punished at all many of the war criminals, responsible for horrible genocide acts. For instance, Heinz Reinefarth, who was responsible for murdering of 200 000 civilians during the Warsaw Uprising - especially during the Wola Massacre (one of the districts of Warsaw), where just in few days more then 50 000 people, including women, children, even infants, elders were murdered one by one in a most inhuman way. Such people as above mentioned Heinz Reinefarth never have been punished, he lived peacefully in Germany after the war for many years until his death, undisturbed, and was even a respected mayor of one of the German towns. Also many of the criminals being the Nazi crew of the concentration camps have not been punished at all. And also because of the war (started in September 1939 by Germans, in cooperation with Russians), after the war Poland and other countries of the region have to suffer for many decades under the communist regimes. Also during the war German invadors stole a lot of paintings and other cultural heritage items, but they have never given them back. So there are many harms in case of which justice have never been restored at all. They are just good in propaganda showing that they did so much and changed so much, but the reality is different.
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@cardenova Not only Jewish people, but also millions of people of Polish nationality were murdered during the II World War in a most inhuman way. Polish, after the Jews, were the second nationality with the biggest number of people killed in Auschwitz. Many were killed also in other German death concentration camps, like Stutthof, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, Sachsenhausen, Mauthausen, Ravensbrueck, and others. There was also a special German death concentration camp just for Polish children (Litzmannstadt Konzentrationslager fur Kinder). During the Warsaw Uprising in August - October 1944 about 200.000 civilians, mostly women, children, infants and old people, were murdered just in few days in one of the districts of Warsaw (the Wola Massacre). After the fall of Warsaw Uprising the capital was destroyed completely, with almost no stone left upon another, as a punishment for the uprising. So even now, more years after the war, it's not so easy just to forget what happened only few decades ago. Especially if members of one's family has been murdered in a bestial way. And also consequences of war destruction of the nation and the country still lasted for many, many years after the war. In both, economic sense as well as in sense of great demographic loss of so many people. So of course, the nations shouldn't hate each other anymore. But it's also not right just to forget about such sufferings of so many innocent people just few decades earlier. And it deserves proper understanding. Also in order to ensure that such horrible things will not happen again in future (by the way, the Russians during the war and later the communist controlled by them committed similar crimes, killing and torturing a lot of innocent people).
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@ii4826 If You have any doubts, not knowing history, about German mass genocide acts, please come and visit the Auschwitz - Birkenau Museum, the Museum of Warsaw Rising in Warsaw, the Museum of the Ulma Family in Markowa (Poland), and many others. See also a lot of authentic, original photos and films, listen to the testimonies of the thousands of victims (those who managed to survive, but suffered often till the end of their lives, for many years).
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@OrientalPearl For sure, I also agree that people shouldn't hate each other anymore. However, the relations between nations and states, being the consequences of earlier wars and genocide acts committed then, are often much more complicated. One thing is a feeling of hatred. And the other thing is restoring the justice. Restoring justice applies not only to harmful acts committed to the others within a society. Also to relations between nations and states at the international level. So between states, justice should be restored by such acts as appropriate war reparations, authentic acts of apologies, not glorifying of individuals who committed genocide and war crimes, but condemning them officially and punishing, proper teaching next generations about historical facts, and so on. Without such true acts of restoring justice, the deep wounds often stay within the harmed nation and its society even for more generations. I don't actually know how Japan really tried to restore justice after the II World War, I only know, from an European perspective, that it can be still problematic (like in Europe - in cases when the reparations have not been paid, when some of the war criminals, committing terrible war crimes, could still live peacefully, unpunished, after the war in their countries or even be respected mayors of towns, when there were some attempts of manipulations about the undoubtful facts, and so on). And also the spread of communism and establishment of communist regimes after the war can be seen as a consequence of the II World War, caused by certain countries, and people living under such regimes suffered greatly for many decades after the II WW (Europe was divided by the Iron Curtain for 50 years). Of course, I also understand that it's difficult to restore justice, including paying reparations, when it concerns relations with a state which is not democratic, but still under a communist regime. However, what I want to emphasize, is that such historical issues are very complicated and sensitive, and it's not necessarily about individual feeling of hatred. And what is worse, is that such sensitive problems between nations, if not really solved earlier, can often be used later by regimes to additionaly antagonise the people and to manipulate them easier. So such post-war relations between nations and states are often indeed a complicated issue. Anyway, I hope that nations, also in Asia (because various parts of the world and events are nowadays much more connected with each other then in the past), are able to keep peace, now and in the future.
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