godsfriedegg
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Australian soldiers after being liberated from a Japanese concentration camp 1945
Sep 24, 2021 11:34 PM
godsfriedegg
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Australian soldiers after being liberated from a Japanese concentration camp 1945
narwhale420
*photo
eldritchscreeching
My grandpa was in the Nagasaki POW camp. After the bomb dropped flyers were dropped warning not to go into the city. Guess where he went...
juffowup00
Oh my god what did they do to them....they drinking tea?!
glaug
damn no wonder theyy got captured
Nalianna
76 years ago. so these guys would be around 97 years old now (if still alive)
Ricdesan
Aussies are tough! I pray they channel that toughness to thwart the Tyranny at home!
Ittouchesthetoilet
Holy shit, poor dudes. At least they got out tho.
KIZRD74
Not a phone in sight living in the moment
NotCreativeEnoughToThinkOfSomethingOriginal
That cup if coffee is going to fuck them up having no mass.
VC999999
Remember the first season of "Survivor"? The "cast" lost a ton of weight. Not as extreme as this for sure though.
soupnazi
theres beer in those cups
DanTh3Polak
"Ok, Steve's idea of a summer getaway sucked. What do you guys want to do next year?"
spiritoz
TheseGuys were posing for this picture to make light of the situation. Classic Aussies.I’m glad they survived. Good sense of humor.
papamoose
Reminds me of this movie: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0326905/
blackberrykit10
Th hum
WehWehWeh
Love the guys reading the paper. “Hey looks like we’ve been kicking their asses”
scoutMoonDiver
This is why I hate the movie “Bridge On The River Kwai”. That movie totally lied about the Japanese POW camps.
scoutMoonDiver
YouTube has The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai produced by the History Channel. If you can watch it w/o crying, you have no soul
malliz
I knew a Changi survivor and even in his seventies he was still very thin
MrCroupAndMrVandemar
Crikey
jesusisherelookbusy
Mark Felton’s documentary about one of POW camps on Borneo is harrowing https://youtu.be/5Rri8GblvS4
RVAALLDAY
Whenever I think of Japanese internment camps I think of the pow who returned to southern CA just to see one of the guards in a dept store
RVAALLDAY
Like fkn imagine that
SubzeroAK
G'day indeed.
ArcaneConjecture
Read "King Rat" by James Clavell.
VC999999
One of my favourite books. They did an OK job with the movie version with George Segal, but the book is the best.
Ivymantled
Clavell is an Aussie legend. POW survivor. Wrote great books. Wrote screenplay for The Great Escape. Directed To Sir With Love.
LizardEnterprises
Read EVERYTHING by James Clavell - Fixed it for ya :-)
JohnnyOToGooooo
What, exactly, am I upvoting?
happywalker
men who have been to hell and back and survived
Roqinn
The word photos implies more than 1 photo.
yobungus
Perhaps it's historical photos in a broad sense, like a series name ?
rufisium
Aurumai
The '#2' in the title also implies that this post is a single part of a series of posts.
godsfriedegg
Thank you very much for the information. If it weren't for you, I don't think I would have known. Very kind of you.
tone0508
jerwelch66
I agree, we want more.
alusta
Isn't it wonderful when people aren't able to see the bigger picture? No, not pictures, just the huge one you missed.
kiwitreelady
Grandpa was a Japanese POW. Photos like these hurt my heart.
ButteredNoodleDriver
Don't worry, they're all obviously crisis actors! Every war since the American Civil War was just to make Trump look bad. Wake up shpoople!
BingoBoomps
after i learned about Unit 731, the Ishii Unit, i think equally awful of the japanese atrocities in WW2 as the nazis. seriously look it up
BustyInnocent
The Japanese overall during ww2 commited many atrocities. The hate between Korea and Japan exist for a reason more than old feuds
DiddlyBits
He was Japanese, or a prisoner or the Japanese?
kiwitreelady
Prisoner of the Japanese.
jerwelch66
I appreciate what your grandpa did for us.
thelegendofthetwistednavigator
Great uncle was a civilian in Singapore. Spent 3+ years as a slave in a Japanese coal mine
DarkSock
It could happen here. Fascism is a patient ever-lurking cancer. If Trump wins in 2024 some of your neighbors would GLADLY herd your family/
DarkSock
into a cattle car after finding thought-crimes against Agolf Twitler in your browser history…
DarkSock
Thewayofthebear
Didn't you lot have detention camps on the border that were/are pretty fucked up?
DarkSock
Me personally? No…I don’t even own a tent!
Thewayofthebear
Aaaand we almost had something there. Stick with your convictions kids, nobody likes a flip flop
DarkSock
ur upper lip is a flip flop… “kid”
ErgoVisaVisConcordantly
There are many older people here in Asia that feel Japanese we’re unrepentant nazis. Younger folks don’t have those feelings
EadEchiC
Younger Asian people’s memories of Japan are Nintendo, PlayStation, Imported cars, and Anime.
HarbourMistress
Even in the day I think many Japanese or German people would have ended concentration camp practices if they could.
SenfinaZeit
So was most of asia at one point or another. We all just pretend that humans aren't all a five dollar raise away from becoming sadists.
reuvil
I believe today's Germans and Japanese are good people that would never repeat their past. IDK about us Americans tho, too many crazies.
goughayulem
After seeing what the Japanese (as a nation) do to dolphins TODAY, I'll say they are still capable of horrible shit.
enemyintel
You should pay more attention to whats going on in Japan. Not saying they would repeat it, but plenty deny what happened. Opposite of GER.
enemyintel
Some info for those curious: http://www.pacificwar.org.au/JapWarCrimes/Denying_truth.html
dRxUgz
They never officially apologized for the atrocities they committed and I don't think it's taught in schools...
Caldersson
Japanese woman I worked with didn't know about pearl harbor, she thought the US launches the first strike
Promethianfire
The Japanese murdered at least as many, and possibly double the number of civilians as were killed in the Holocaust.
ButteredNoodleDriver
And never even acknowledged it, let alone apologized
GrumpyOldMillennial
The Japanese murdered 22 million people? Source for that.
Promethianfire
https://medium.com/dose/the-asian-holocaust-killed-twice-as-many-people-as-the-nazis-did-877f0a7c664
GrumpyOldMillennial
I'll be dipped. I knew the WW2 Japanese were murdering raping scum but I didn't know the true extent. Jesus...
ButteredNoodleDriver
It's OK though, we made the morally and ethically sound decision to ignore their horrific medical crimes in exchange for the data
Promethianfire
Check out "Supernova in the East" by Dan Carlin on YouTube.
EVLWNS
They were basically Nazis - except they were deliberately Elitist/Aristocratic, whilst the Nazis were a fascism of the working class.
enemyintel
They also didn't bring discrimination or racism into their violence. They brutally murdered everyone equally as long they weren't japanese.
EVLWNS
Equal opportunity bastards.
yoseiwind
Well, Japanese enough. Okinawa was just on this side of too mixed for their liking. Screwed the Ainu too.
enemyintel
Sure. It was more about loyalty to the emperor (culture) and all that. Excellent video on the matter: https://youtu.be/kpVgDgKpQS8
LizardEnterprises
...no they weren't. They might have marketed themselves as that, but they cozied up to buisness and political elites immediately.
EVLWNS
They were intensely anti-aristocratic & anti-political elite - that was their whole schtick. It's difficult to sum in 140 characters, but
LizardEnterprises
They literally got into power by courting von Hindenburg;s support. One of their first actions was to privatize the rail system...
EVLWNS
Yeah, because he was president & was key to gaining power, & a Prussian general - the Nazis idolised Prussian militarism - & a noteworthy
EVLWNS
they saw economic competition as good, in a Social Darwinist sense, but harnessed industrial power for "the good of the nation [ie. race]",
EVLWNS
and built many things for the common man - like the volkswagon, lit. "people's car", or the autobahn, &c.
Howmuchistoomuchspam
I don’t say this in jest. I’m trying to eat less & it is so hard. Being slowly starved to death seems like a hell I wouldn’t wish on anyone
slack3rdav3
my pic from basic training my face looked similar. much less happy though...
Ivalicenyan
https://youtu.be/sLJJlJpvXyM
SJBSavageInk
Japanese internment camps were supposed to be disgustingly brutal. There was a movie about a women's internment camp where the women could
SJBSavageInk
Basically sleep with the officers or slowly starve to death or die from illness. Supposed to be based on real events.
DiddlyBits
It's also much easier to not eat on your own accord. It's so much worse when you're hungry and don't have the ability to eat.
BigDaddysMeatWagon
Mmm nope that's a thought I'm not going to think a lot. That sounds awful.
DiddlyBits
Just rejoice in the simple fact that you don't have to think about it. That's the privilege we have today.
mdymv4gxsx365
And it didn’t come for free.
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CitrusStrongman
I loled irl
MrChurch
Edwinshap
Are your Eric cartman?
Sloppydrunkcatlady
Jesus
FinnisherOffr
As a 38 year old loser living in China accessing a western application to talk shit, I hope you see your countrie's own concentration camps.
Howmuchistoomuchspam
Maybe you should lick my taint.
CharliePapaBravo
I bet those guys in the pic would gladly eat your ass.
tinydog
That would take a lot of concentration.
YourNeighborhoodLesbian
This is darker than the blackest black.
tinydog
Vanta White?
ButtonsNoodle
Black as midnight, black as pitch, blacker than the foulest witch.
TheReturnOfGreasemunky129
In all the years I have been on Imgur. Over two different accounts. I have downvoted 7 posts. This was one.
CitrusStrongman
That's very silly.
TheReturnOfGreasemunky129
My humour is so dark it gets two warning shots in the back and this is still distasteful.
0plus1plus0
It's ok I upvoted him to cancel you out. It's a joke not a dick. You don't have to take it so hard.
Akreyeiu
This one added sexual harassment 'jokes' to its repertoire.
LusciousLucius
Jokes are supposed to be funny. This was just distasteful, low effort crap.
clide005
People are real pos during wars
Goshitsnicehere
Preserving my own mortality and reacting to watching my friends getting killed would turn me into a POS too.
IamTOOOLDforThisShite
Japan was asshoe.
Hairarse
Mega asshoe
DiddlyBits
Not just Japan. We annihilated 2 of their cities and rounded up many Japanese Americans in our own concentration camps.
IamTOOOLDforThisShite
Neither the A-Bombs, nor the internment camps, caused the Japanese POW camps to be so inhuman. US was bad too, but the Japanese camps worse.
DiddlyBits
Bad is bad. It shouldn't be some competition for who's worse. This is coming from an Army veteran.
IamTOOOLDforThisShite
Weird flex, you're adopting. This post is about the horrific conditions in Japanese POW camps. Maybe attack US history on another post.
clide005
Not sure why you're downvoting this guy. He isnt wrong.
EVLWNS
Japan was, by far, the bigger asshole.
hugh705
In the scope of American history in its entirety? Doubtful.
EVLWNS
& the full scope of Japanese history is filled with far worse atrocities & injustices.
Hairarse
The Japanese bayoneted babies out of women and threw the fetus to each other catching it on their bayonets back and forth. No comparison
hugh705
Ever heard of what we did to the Natives? What do you mean no comparison? Keep drinking your propagandaid tho.
DiddlyBits
Japanese soldiers killed babies, so it's cool that we killed nearly a quarter million innocents? You're a piece of shit, bud.
Hairarse
Who said it was cool? War is fucked