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We talk a lot about the Holocaust, but rarely are the barbarically gruesome atrocities committed by the Japanese Imperial Army discussed. The actions of the Japanese Army against the Chinese people and Allied POWs was extremely violent. When the Japanese conquered the Chinese city of Nanking in late 1937 they raped and butchered the civilian population of the city. Every female from age 8 to 80 was a potential victim of rape. Japanese soldiers even raped pregnant woman. Many of the women they raped were butchered after they were raped. Captured Chinese soldiers were used for Live bayonet practice. Many others were machine gunned to death and their bodies dumbed into the Yangtzee River.

Before the Allied could capture a Japanese POW camp the Japanese had the American soldiers placed into a trench. They filled the trench with gasoline and set it on fire. They burned all the POWs to death and shot dead any that tried to escape.

Why are the atrocities committed by the Japanese never taught in school. Why do we only concentrate on the Holocaust and the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima? Why not also discuss the Aliied fire bombingd of Dresden and Tokyo? By what we often teach in school students might think the Holocaust was the Only atrocity committed during World War II.