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It started with " The Downfall " where Hitler seems so human, so human in-fact that the old Wagner mother was still in love with the man who got only one ball, as was his bodyguard and his chauffeur..
Now the German has found even worse that they are depicted.
Imagine that.
The Japanese.
So clear conscience now.
Of course not all German where murderers, look at the pictures of Nüremberg, but many where, until the bombs get over their heads.
Ah the film? Daniel Brühl is excellent so is Buscemi. The film is ok, very brutal showing the horror of the Japanese army massacring the Chinese in Najing.
Underlay with original scenes it is almost horrific to look at.
A mediocre film, but worth the view.
Follow Ups:
other WW2 themes; " The Rape of Nanking" by Iris Chang being one of the better ones; there's a Japanese newspaper front page reprinted in "Rape" where two army officers held a competition in Nanking to see who could behead ( with swords ) 100 people 1st; and both photo + tallies are in the text of the report
The Japanese education ministry vehemently denied the authenticity of this reprint, until library sources confirmed their copies; a major furore at the time in Japan + quite an international scandal. Some say this was a journalistic fabrication
I had the opportunity to meet Ms. Chang some years ago + we discussed her book; she has since died ( suicide )
Japan has never adequately come to terms with that time in historyGW
Edits: 12/09/09 12/09/09 12/09/09
Must has been an interesting conversation!
Ms. Chang was clearly obsessed with her subject ( being Chinese likely made it difficult for her to develop much detachment ) My meeting her was pure coincidence, I had just read her book.
For WW2 full-on atrocity, and what has never been adequately addressed in film ( it may not even be possible ) the Battle of Okinawa beats all
The Americans made a significant strategic error invading Okinawa; the Ryukyu islanders didn't consider themselves Japanese, ( many still don't )having their own culture + language + the closest the Empire of Japan had come in Centuries to subjugating them was to disarm them. This left Okinawans in a constant state of readiness for invasion, and absolute masters of unarmed ( martial arts ) combat
There were more than 10,000 casualties for every square mile liberated in this campaign; this gave a green light for the USA for the use of atomic weaponry to end the war. Had the Marines, alternatively, rolled into Tokyo bay, almost all civilians had long been evacuated to the countryside + the city was bombed flat ( more bombs were dropped on Tokyo than all of Europe by the Allies ) resistance would have been minimal in comparison
I saw an interview with an Okinawan woman, now elderly, who had been captured shell-shocked + prior to interrogation, had kicked + broken the neck of a Marine sergeant ( killing him instantly ) + critically injured two other Marines; she was 14 years old + had been captured, injured + had not eaten for 6 weeks. She was a high school kid + one of only 2 survivors of a class of 40
The USA annexed Okinawa post-war + did not return sovereignty until the 1970's, Okinawans could not get passports to travel prior to that
Most of the invading forces were battle-hardened grunts, veterans of Iwo Jima, Italy, etc. and around 1/2 of them suffered battle fatigue, many to the extent where they went permanently insane
The Rape of Nanking, "Come and See", Germanys invasion of Russia, "Der Untergang" are mere sideshows in comparison to OkinawaGW
Edits: 12/11/09 12/11/09
Thank you for the details.
It make me curious for more on Okinawa.
That is what the film tell. Point for point.
I have rage* in me about the handling of this from the Japanese.
* And a good dose of it.
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