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Old 03-09-07, 07:03 AM   #10
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I disagree they would have willingly done it to the americans given a chance.
And you know this to be true? How about the Indian PoW's in the water with them? Would they have understood as well?
Plenty of incidents to show the Japanese did do that sort of thing, that said no justification for this (at least he could have spared the Indian POWs), or probably the Wilhelm Gustoff (though I am not certain the Soviets knew what the ship was carrying).

I do get a little fed up with moral equivalence given by some to Axis and Allies, and I am also fed up with refusal to recognise all nations play the "bad guy" at some point. Example, Germany wanted to do to the USSR and Eastenr Europe (in a planned way) what Spain, England and France did to the Americas. Indians sometimes scalped and massacred whole settler familes but it was their land invaded.

More fuel for the fire.
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