Massacres and Attrocities of WW2

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Mukden.

About 350 miles from Pingfan (the Germ Warfare Complex in Manchuria) was the prisoner of war camp at MUKDEN where 1,485 American, British and Australian POWs were sent on November 11, 1942. Every few days they received inoculations and vaccinations. Within three months 230 had died. By November, 1943, a total of 84 British, 16 Australians and 1,174 US servicemen had perished. It is estimated that around 60,000 prisoners, including the Chinese, lost their lives in this inhuman experiment. The terrible experiences suffered by prisoners at Mukden, has been, for over forty years, one of the best kept secrets of World War 11.
None of the Japanese scientists and doctors at Mukden or Pingfan were ever brought to trial, owing to a deal done with the USA, through General Douglas MacArthur, in which it offered immunity from war crimes in exchange for scientific data acquired at Mukden and Pingfan. After repeated requests by war crime investigators for authority to arrest General Ishii and the Imperial prince, the requests were denied by MacArthur. After the war these men, about thirty five of them, held top positions in Japanese medical and scientific institutions.

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Pingfan.

When Russia invaded Manchuria in 1945, the Japanese Government ordered that Pingfan (the Japanese experimental Biological and Germ Warfare Centre in occupied Manchuria) be destroyed. This complex was established by General Ichii and an Imperial prince and cousin of Emperor Hirohito. The documentation authorising the building of this establishment carried the Imperial Seal of the Emperor. Prisoners in the holding cells were first killed and all Chinese and Manchurian slave labourers who were forced to work in the complex were then machined-gunned to death. About 600 were killed this way, the bodies of the victims cremated in ovens the same way as those used in the Nazi death camps, and their ashes then dumped into the nearby Sungari River. The whole Pingfan complex was then blown up before the Russians arrived. Pingfan had 4,500 flea breeding machines which produced 100 million infected fleas every few days. These fleas, infected with plague, typhoid, cholera and anthrax organisms, were to be dropped on the invasion troops in a last ditch effort to win the war. Emperor Hirohito, realising that the war was over, opposed it after the Hiroshima bomb was dropped.

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The Normandy Massacres:

A sensation was caused in Allied Headquarters when reports came through that a considerable number of Canadian soldiers were shot after being taken prisoner by the 12th. Panzer Division ‘Hitler Jugend’. On the morning of June 8th. thirty seven Canadians were taken prisoner by the 2nd. Battalion of the 6th. Panzer Grenadier Regiment. The prisoners were marched across country to the H/Q of the 2nd. Battalion. In the village of Le Mesnil-Patty they were then ordered to sit down in a field with their wounded in the center. In a short while a half track arrived with eight or nine SS soldiers brandishing Schmeisser machine pistols. Advancing in line towards the prisoners they opened fire killing thirty five men. Two of the Canadians ran for their lives and escaped the slaughter but were rounded up by a different German unit to spend the rest of the war in a POW camp. First to make contact with the Canadians was a combat group led by Obersturmbannfuhrer Karl-Heinz Milius and supported by the Prinz Battalion. Near the villages of Authie and Buron, a number of Canadians were taken prisoner. Numbering around forty, they were individually killed on the march back to the rear. Eight were ordered to remove their helmets and then shot with automatic rifles. Their bodies were dragged out on to the road and left to be run over by trucks and tanks. French civilians pulled the bodies back on to the pavement but were ordered to stop and to drag the bodies back onto the road again.. On the 7th. and 8th. of June, in the grounds of the Abbaye Ardenne, the headquarters of Kurt Meyer’s 25th. Panzer Grenadiers, twenty of the Canadians were shot. After being taken prisoner they were locked up in a stable, and being called out by name they emerged from the doorway only to be shot in the back of the head During the afternoon of 8th.June, twenty six Canadians were shot at the Chateau d’Audrieu after being taken prisoner by a Reconnaissance Battalion of the SS Hitler Jugend. Other units of the German forces in France called the Hitler Jugend Division the ‘Murder Division’. After the war, investigations established that separate atrocities were committed in 31 different incidents involving 134 Canadians, 3 British and 1 American.

[von Poop]

Oradour-sur-Glane 10 June 1944

[Owen]

Lidice Czech Republic.
Lidice-memorial

[vailron]

was#nt that a common practice, giving the german scientists immunity from the war crime prossecutions, if it was'nt for the german rocket scientists america would never have put a man on the moon, and manyu members of the gestapo were spirited away to form the stazi in east germany

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Le Paradis

(Pas-de-Calais. May 26,1940) A company of the Royal Norfolk Regiment, trapped in a cowshed, surrendered to the 2nd Totenkopf Infantry Regiment under the command of 28 year old SS Obersturmfuhrer Fritz Knoechlein. Marched to a group of farm buildings, they were lined up in the meadow along side the barn wall. When the 99 prisoners were in position, two machine guns opened fire killing 97 of them. Two managed to escape, Privates Pooley and O'Callaghan emerged from the slaughter alive. When the SS troops moved on, the two were sheltered by the villagers at Le Paradis. After the war, the massacre was investigated and Knoechlein was traced and arrested. Tried before a War Crimes Court in Hamburg, he was found guilty, and on January 28, 1949, he was hanged.

[Owen]

How many of the perpetrators of these mass killings were willing participants?
I'd imagine quite a few were ordered under pain of death to carry out someone else's murderous intent.
I know it sounds like the old excuse, "I was acting under orders."
But how many times were those orders carried out under a death threat?
I'm sure some murderous types got off on it but I'm sure rather alot carried some pretty heavy emotional baggage around for years to come.

[vailron]

my father always maintained that the average german soldier no more wanted to be fighting than the average british soldier did. and to his dying day he said that the yanks were worse than any german that he ever came across

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Originally Posted by Owen D

How many of the perpetrators of these mass killings were willing participants?
I'd imagine quite a few were ordered under pain of death to carry out someone else's murderous intent.
I know it sounds like the old excuse, "I was acting under orders."
But how many times were those orders carried out under a death threat?
I'm sure some murderous types got off on it but I'm sure rather alot carried some pretty heavy emotional baggage around for years to come.

I would have to agree because I do not believe all were animals.