Originally Posted By: Nickdfresh
Originally Posted By: Wolf359
Originally Posted By: Panzerman
You will get no defense from me over the Japanese. They were brutal racist monsters.
Unit 731 was terriable and I can't believe we did not put these monsters on trail after the war and execute more of them they made the Germans look like Unisef.
I believe the strife between Japan and China exist today because of Japans attrocities.
Can't say I blame the Chinese.
Well there are various accounts if we're talking total deaths, but I don't think the Japanese were worse than the Germans, some accounts say that Hitler is credited with about 12 million deaths, the Japanese 5 million. Mao rings in at 40 million and Stalin at 20 million. Stalin and Mao don't get as much mention because we never went to war with them. Hitler could be as high as 40 million if you want to say he was responsible for starting WWII. Or can you blame the French and British for not having a stronger backbone and stopping him from taking Czechoslovakia which gave him the impression that he would have a free hand with Poland and that the British and the French weren't going to do anything. It's interesting that they declared war on Germany but no on the Soviets.
In addition to the Jews, the Germans also killed about 3.3 million of the 5.7 million Soviet POWs. Hitler considered them sub-human. The soviets were also bad, of the 91,000 in the 6th Army that were captured, only about 6,000 survived the war.
Your numbers are way low for both. Statistically the Chinese suffered the worst followed by Poland of the top of my head. Those countries alone exceed the totals you state..
Those numbers are somewhat open to interpretation so there's usually a wide range. Some of it depends on whether you include deaths from famines which may have resulted from bad policy or intentional effects of withholding food from a particular area, sort indirect deaths vs actual deaths caused by a particular side. Both Germany and Japan were pretty pretty brutal, I don't think it's accurate to imply that the Germans were mild compared to the Japanese.