These two sentences encapsulate Japanese culture during the Emperor Hirohito era. A culture that glorified Japan’s racial superiority, sought to exercise its power, encouraging merciless brutality toward its subjugated enemies whom the Japanese regarded as sub-human. A culture that unleashed unrestrained violent savagery, mass rape, indulged an appetite for unimaginable torture,…
Plans to capture Nazi Germany’s technological secrets began even before the war was over. U.S. military and intelligence officials sought better ammunition for ending the war with Japan; they wanted to ensure that Germany could not rearm itself; and they began to prepare for a war against the Soviet Union—a…
U.S. CIA and military secret service officials also offered asylum to the Nazi doctors who debased civilized medicine having used their medical knowledge to murder thousands of disabled German patients under the Nazi “euthanasia” killing programs. First, they used phenol injections; then they conducted pilot tests using carbon monoxide and…
In 1997, Iris Chang’s book, The Rape of Nanking: the Forgotten Holocaust, broke a six-decade-long international silence about the 1937 massacre at Nanking (Nanjing). A catastrophe perpetrated by the Japanese Imperial Army who butchered more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and raped more than 80,000 women within a span of six to eight…
In 1997, one hundred and eighty Chinese survivors and families of the victims sued the Japanese government charging that its military forces had spread bubonic plague and other germ diseases in China. They demand full disclosure, an apology and compensation in the amount of 10 million yen per victim of biological…
Allen Dulles was the longest-serving CIA Director who dominated American intelligence for a generation. He personified a cadre of Ivy League pragmatic elitists in high echelons of the government who greatly admired Germany’s scientific achievements. Princeton educated, Dulles affected the demeanor of a diplomat and professor rather than a spy….
Major General Reinhard Gehlen was the brutal spymaster who headed Hitler’s Intelligence operations in the Eastern Front where he organized guerrilla units made up of right-wing groups of anti-Soviet Ukrainians and other Slavic nationalists to fight the Soviets. He was also responsible for torturous interrogation of Soviet prisoners of war;…
The phrase “comfort women” is a controversial term that refers to an estimated 200,000 girls and women who were recruited as prostitutes by the Imperial Japanese Army during the 1930s and 1940s. Though the majority were Korean and Chinese, Filipina, Taiwanese, Indonesian, Burmese, Dutch, Australian, and some Japanese women were also abducted….
The truth is slowly making itself known regarding Japan’s ghastly treatment of American prisoners of war during WWII. After more than five decades of denial, prevarication and outright lying on the part of its government, its military, its neonationalist historians and corporate leaders, Japan’s criminal behavior has been ferreted out…
Paperclip Nazi scientists were highly sought—in particular by the air force and the CIA. They offered the scientists the opportunity to continue and expand their dark secret work under U.S. government auspices. Dr. Harry Armstrong, surgeon general of the U.S. Air Force, employed 58 Nazi doctors under Paperclip at the…
Inasmuch as these CIA recruits were war criminals, they could not enter the U.S. legally. In February 1947, the first set of Paperclip scientists’ visa requests were denied after their dossiers were reviewed and rejected by both Departments of State and Justice. Navy Captain, Bosquet Wev, Deputy Director of the…
“For the 10,000-odd soldiers of the Indian Army who endured extreme torture at the hands of their Japanese captors, cannibalism was the culmination. Evidence suggests the practice was not the result of dwindling supplies, but worse, it was conducted under supervision and perceived as a power projection tool.” (War Crimes…
