WW2 Massacres

WW2 is considered one of the bloodiest pages of the world’s history. Events like the Holocaust and the Nanking Massacre has occurred during WW2. The Holocaust is considered the biggest massacre during WW2; it was the systematic persecution and murder of six million Jews by Nazi Regime. Another huge massacre during WW2 occurred in Nanking, China by Japanese Army forces.

Although doctors are called to cure, protect and take care of people, during these horrific events in both of the countries two doctors were famous for using people as a lab rats to experience new things. Those “doctors” were Josef Mengele from Germany and Shiro Ishii from Japan.  Josef Mengele became known as the ‘Angel of Death’, in charge of huge numbers of fatal and brutal medical experiments which killed over 400 000 victims. Shiro Ishii was the commander of Unit 731; his strategy was to develop biological weapons which would assist the Japanese army's invasion of south-east China.

     The way that those two doctors had acted is just unforgivable and there is nothing that can justify this kind of inhuman and terrible events.

     Both of those crimes are equally brutal and horrific, but the organizers weren't punished equally. While Josef Mengele had to hide during rest of his life, all the scientists at Unit 731 were freed and allowed to continue their careers. The reason was that Japanese were allowed to erase Unit 731 from the archives, by American government, which wanted to use it for itself.

     Germany atoned for its war crimes but japan has been able to deny the evidence of Unit 731. But denying of the history doesn't mean that it didn't happen. Some nations are just too scared to recognize their own crimes. Even after all that has happened I respect Germany and German people because they found courage in themselves to recognize the crimes they have done. Such massacres are huge crimes but the denials of those are even worse, it can make the history repeat itself.