Comments by "Arthur Mosel" (@arthurmosel808) on "REAL story of the Bataan Death March" video.

Please read "War Without Mercy". While parts of this is fairer than most, this book covers the March better than most. The treatment of the prisoners was much more complex than this presentation. Among things to be noted was that lack of discipline among the prisoners ruined much of the water and food provided (inadequate to begin with since more prisoners were taken then the Japanese expected) with the first troops to arrive 3a5ing and drinking what they could get and spilling and ruining much of the remainder. Japanese treatment of the prisoners by passing units varied from good to bad (possibly relating to their combat experience or lack of it). None of this justified Japanese misconduct, but it does place it in perspective. Z last point is that surrender under Japanese military law made a surrendering Japanese soldier a military criminal; many of the Japanese treated US and Fillipino soldiers as criminals as a result, a cultural issue that also needs to be considered.
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