Comments by "Arthur Mosel" (@arthurmosel808) on "TheUntoldPast" channel.

Was it wrong to execute them? First what was the rules of war - to be treated as a POW, you had to be in uniform; if you engaged in a military operation, you had to be in an identifiable uniform or you were an illegal combatant, spies were allowed to be executed; however torture is also illegal. So, I have mixed feelings on the issue. I won't condemn executions; however, the torture is unacceptable; but the method of execution was normal for spies who were taken alive. So each of us must decide for ourselves. That there were other options is true, at least several spies captured by the British were turned into double agents, and were treated reasonably well. A moral quandary.
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Genocide is unacceptable no matter who committed the acts. That the Nazis behaved beasrially but many of those killed were not Nazus and had lived there for generations.
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The Bataan Death March was less an intentional than a cluster f--k on both the US and Japanese parts. The Japanese underestimated in how many prisoners would be captured, so the amount of food available was inadequate. The Japanese lacked enough vehicles to transfer the prisoners, so the march to the railhead and from it. As Japanese units passed the column some gave food while others beat them, it depended on how well controlled the unit was. On the
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US side, there was no order or discipline. When the head of the column reached food and water (which was less than needed because of more prisoners than expected) both the food and water was struggled over resulting in some getting it and others not; while only spoiled food and water remained for the end of the column. A good read is "War without Mercy", it destroys alot of the propaganda on both sides. You should also remember that war in Asia was a very different thing than war in Europe historically. During the Warlord period in China, many of the same atrocity charges that were leveled against the Japanese during the 2nd Sino-Japanese War were leveled against the different warlords' armies.
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