The Japanese experiments were worse, but we don't really talk about them because the Japanese scientists were given amnesty by the US in exchange for their research.
Also, the Germans were forced by the rest of the world to acknowledge what they did for decades to come (and as a result have had some of the strictest anti-Nazi laws), meanwhile Japanese schools just don't teach anything of the horrors they committed during the wars.
meanwhile Japanese schools just don't teach anything of the horrors they committed during the wars.
To be fair, most countries don't do that. The Americans and Soviets don't like talking about what their soldiers did to German, Polish and Japanese women and children during and after the war when covering WW2.
In the us I remember learning about the Japanese internment camps and the bombings which were definitely glossed over but the allied powers were on the right side of history for this one lol. It does seem like any of the bad stuff Americans did is really only focused on in history classes if it happened on American soil. What we really don’t talk about is contributing to the creation of Al quaida and destabilizing communist countries in South America
That didn't happen, Saddam among a few others is responsible for their creation. The US did however flood the region with weapons, destabilized it and allowed for jihadists to grab power by funding them in order to oppose the Soviets.
Which is a fair argument for teaching about it more, otherwise there is a lot of room for people adopting falsified narratives about what happened.
No worries, I get the intentions, I just don't believe that even more revisionism is very helpful and that the founders do deserve their "credit", even with the US enabling them.
It's a great lesson in why forcing things through might/imperialism, whatever you want to call it, is gonna have unpredictable consequences and harm for yourself.
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u/twilighttwister 2d ago
The Japanese experiments were worse, but we don't really talk about them because the Japanese scientists were given amnesty by the US in exchange for their research.
Also, the Germans were forced by the rest of the world to acknowledge what they did for decades to come (and as a result have had some of the strictest anti-Nazi laws), meanwhile Japanese schools just don't teach anything of the horrors they committed during the wars.