Thread: Can you believe this?

That must have been an interesting day!

Originally Posted by PhilipA

I remember the shocked looks on my Japanese TAFE students when I played "The Pacific Century " videos which showed the Japanese massacres in China , and the medical experiments in Siberia.
They had no idea.
regards Philip A

Originally Posted by Utemad

As terrible as it is that Japan or any country would try to hide their past we are not entirely different.

I saw a documentary of Gallipoli where a Turkish soldier was saying that he could see into our trenches or whatever and saw our officers/higher ranks forcing our soldiers to get out of the trenches and go to a certain death. After watching wave after wave getting cut down by machine gun fire they just kept pushing them out. I have read that elsewhere too so it is not entirely blanked out of our history but it is not exactly the heroic/romanticised tales we get told in our history books is it?

huh?

what the hell has that got to do with this argument?

that was the ideology of the first world war... both sides of the war reduced it to one of attrition, the winner was the one with men still standing.. pretty open and well documented facts...

Croatia was on the same side as Japan.

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Croatia was on the same side as Japan.

And Switzerland was neutral and so was Uruguay until February 1945!

John