RACISM AND WORLD WAR II
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This research paper analyzes the role played by racism and its significance during World War II. Racism in the form of the German Nazi belief in the superiority of the Aryan 'race' and the willingness of Adolf Hitler to expand by force Germany's control over the European Continent in order to achieve his racist aims was a principal cause of World War II. Nazi genocidal practices resulted in the destruction of most European Jews and other minorities such as Gypsies. The belief by Japan's ruling militarist clique in their right to rule Japan's Asian and Western colonial neighbors led to their war crimes and atrocities in China, such as the Rape of Nanking by the Japanese Army in 1937-1938, and against Allied Prisoners of War (POWs). Combat in the Pacific between American and Japanese armed forces was characterized by unusual savagery on both sides which stemmed from the racial stereotypes they held toward each other and in particular Japanese fanaticism on the battlefield. On all sides a war which began with mutual reluctance to attack civilian targets ended in a fury of indiscriminate bombings of civilian populations and the American atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On the American home front, the war heightened racial tensions; and the pattern of discrimination by whites against colored peoples which it generated exposed white hypocrisy and paved the way for postwar gains by nonwhites. Adolf Hitler and other German Nazis saw world affair
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y the exceptionally brutal and sadistic manner in which the Japanese went about killing, wounding and raping Chinese in Nanking. Their actions included the use of Chinese men for "bayonet practice, and decapitation contests," "live burials, castration" (or other mutilations), the carving of organs, and the roasting (alive) of people." Chang said that "many of the victims of the Japanese were apparently murdered for no other reason than pleasure."
During the war Chang said the Japanese exhibited "a complete lack of remorse and sense of wrongdoing." Some Japanese leaders, such Liberal Democrat politician Ishihara Shintaro, denied in 1990 that the Rape of Nanking ever took place. Even today the Japanese government ignores the problem. It has never made amends to the Chinese for their actions in Nanking or elsewhere.
A number of scholars in the West and in Japan have attempted to explain Japanese atrocities during the war. Some stress the extraordinary pressures placed on all Japanese to obey the Emperor and their superiors and the sudden impact of release from restraint represented by the December 1937 order. Others emphasized the extraordinarily brutal way in which Japanese soldiers were trained. Japanese officers were indoc
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