War is a test of human nature, and war can easily cause people to go crazy. Once people fall into madness, they will abandon the goodwill in human nature and become the devil who kills people without blinking. The Japanese were the most murderous in World War II, who could not be described as human beings at all, and we can see that they were inhumane in the treatment of prisoners of war.
According to prisoners of war who returned from Germany, a thousand could return to 600, and if captured by the Japanese, a thousand could return to 100. Among the prisoners of war who were tortured, the most severe treatment was against American prisoners of war.
Anyone who understands Japan's rise knows that Japan harbors a great hatred of whites. During the Russo-Japanese War, Japan also mistreated Russian prisoners. Not to mention that the Japanese did not pass regulations on how to treat prisoners of war, so they intensified. Japan's "Bushido spirit" led the Japanese to believe that the prisoners of war had not committed suicide and were not worth surviving at all, so they would treat them in a very cruel way. Japan's largest camp of prisoners of war, many crowded together, lacking food and water. Some call them "chicken coops" because of the lack of food and some people eat lice when forced to do so.
People who were beaten to death had the same daily routine as a household meal, and if the Japanese were in a bad mood, they would torture prisoners of war for fun. It would be even more cruel if he escaped and was caught, and not only would the escape himself be punished for the people who lived with him. The Japanese tied them to poles, beat them with whips and maces, then sprinkled salt on the wounds and exposed them to the sun, waiting for the wounds to become scarred and then beating them.
These were the ways in which the Japanese army treated American prisoners of war, and they vented their hatred for whites on these prisoners of war. In World War II, Japanese and American forces confronted each other, and the hatred for the United States deepened, and once the prisoners of war fell into the hands of the Japanese, it was simply painful. We should have heard of a march called the "Bataan March". Since then, U.S. troops on the Philippine islands have surrendered to Japan, and more than 80,000 U.S. prisoners have lived miserable lives.
The U.S. military underestimated the cruelty of the Japanese, believing that the Japanese would abide by international regulations that gave preferential treatment to prisoners of war and could not mistreat prisoners. They turned out to be wrong, and the Japanese were even more cruel than they thought.
Nearly 80,000 American soldiers were captured and marched for 120 kilometers under the brutal and violent push of the Japanese, during which they were not allowed to drink water or eat, and some were unable to help each other, and some were crushed to death by armored vehicles, killing 17,000 people.
When they arrived at the camp still without food or water, American prisoners of war plummeted in weight in the absence of food and ended up skinny. After two months in the prison camp, another 26,000 people died in despair.
A 90-year-old doctor at a Japanese hospital recalled receiving soldiers who had just become prisoners of war, and said American prisoners of war also thanked him. He completely let go of his guard thinking he was going to be treated, and he didn't know what he was going to face next.
After 70 years, doctors can still recall the scene, when they pulled out a living human organ to see how long they could survive. However, after the defeat of the Japanese army, the United States was not as inhuman as Japan, and the United States complied with international law to give preferential treatment to prisoners.
But some countries are not as generous as the United States, and the japanese prisoners of war fell into their hands with a very tragic end. This is also the crime they paid for during the war!