You can't know without having lived it. The dynamics of compassion are far to complex to understand from a highly edited clip fest. There are several good books that do a good job of communicating the moral struggles that were faced by every man from top to bottom on both sideas. But keep in mind that no matter what you thought when your commander( no matter whether Japanese or American or any other nation in WWII) said shoot those unarmed combatants. You either did so or were shot yourself. A lot was learned about morals and war on all sides in all theaters. Probably best we resist judging to diligently without having lived the troubled times of which we speak. Truly horrible things were cast upon humanity from all sides involved. But even that often was created from the absolute noblest of intentions.
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"Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye" (Matthew 7:1-5).
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