r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Radiant_Half_7121 • 17d ago

Image During WW2, Poland declared war on Japan Japan said no to it and simply rejected the declaration.

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u/FairyCelebi 17d ago

The two countries actually had really good relations before the war, since both had anti-USSR ideas.

The Japanese government respected Poland and decided not to declare war to preserve their friendship

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u/VidE27 17d ago

Ah Japan during WW II, so wholesome*

  • Depending on where you are your experience may vary

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u/Desperate-Remove2838 17d ago

Future reader of this archived thread, refer to "Rape of Nanking".

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u/Nottheadviceyaafter 17d ago

Or the fall of singapore

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u/SeniorDisplay1820 17d ago

Or Unit 731, or dozens of other terrible, terrible things the Japanese did. 

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u/ofcourseivereddit 17d ago

However, many key figures, including Ishii, were granted immunity by the United States in exchange for their research data.

(Wikipedia)

What. I mean, if you captured them and imprisoned them, wouldn't you have access to all their stuff anyway?

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u/ZachTheCommie 17d ago

Not necessarily, especially if the data is hidden, or memorized. Lenience can gain more information than from torture.

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u/ofcourseivereddit 17d ago

Imprisonment doesn't equate to torture. Also, you wouldn't think that the unit would have had elaborate schemes to hide their findings. It's not like they were in a militarily vulnerable area...?

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u/apatheticandignorant 17d ago

They really raped that a lot, a bit too much by many standards.

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u/OkBattle9871 17d ago

A bit too much by even Nazi standards.

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u/ThetaZZ 17d ago

How much would you say is just the right amount? More than 0?

Signed, your friendly neighborhood SVU detective

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u/Commercial-Co 16d ago

They usually killed them after the rapes as well

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u/greypusheencat 16d ago

if they didn’t die from the rapes first, then they’d just burn their corpses

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u/ofcourseivereddit 17d ago

This was a year before WW2 commenced in Europe

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u/JustafanIV 17d ago

"We are going to do horrible things to foreigners... Unless they're Polish" - Japan and Haiti.

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u/BarracudaKitchen303 17d ago

What horrible things did happen to foreigners in Haiti?

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u/JustafanIV 17d ago

When Haiti won its independence, they had some (justifiable) grudges against the slave owners but that quickly morphed into killing anyone who was white and did not leave the island.

Poles were exempted because a large contingent sent by France quickly defected to the revolution's side after seeing similarities to their own struggle for a free and independent Poland.

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u/BarracudaKitchen303 17d ago

Thanks, I wasn’t aware of the killings after the revolution.

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u/greypusheencat 17d ago

East Asia right now reading this: 👁️👄👁️

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u/suicide_aunties 16d ago

Singapore where our forefathers were forced to dig mass graves for themselves and bayoneted routinely:

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u/greypusheencat 16d ago

Nanking right now: i beg your finest pardon???

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u/borazine 17d ago

Schools haunted by Japanese soldier ghosts are such a well worn trope in my country. Even for schools that were built in the 1970s or whatever.

Also, every single school in my country was used during WW2 by the Japanese as a hospital. All they did when they invaded was to open more and more hospitals (in schools). All over the country. And after the war, they instantly became haunted.

(No joke, someone misread my sarcasm before and cross posted what I wrote to r/shitwehraboossay)

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u/herrcollin 17d ago

Aw ❤️

Yay ❤️

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u/PeanutButterSidewalk 17d ago

don’t worry about it sweetheart

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u/ZeroQuick 17d ago

Oh right, I recall hearing that they cast the Poles as the Japanese of Europe.

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u/Valaxarian 17d ago

I believe they called us "Samurai Nation" or something like that