who was more cruel in WW2 (Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan?)?

Question

Now I knew that the Germans exterminated 6 million Jews. However the Japs were extremely cruel to POW's. They would experiment on them. Cut off their fingers and such, They also slaughtered over 10 million Chinese. This is a tough question.

Answer 1

The acts of barbarism committed by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan were unthinkable, unforgivable and unparallelled. That so many people suffered and died at the hands of these animals is and always will be a black mark against their respective countries and Mankind in general (for allowing this to happen). I shudder to think of the consequences had either one of them won-thank God for the Allies.

Answer 2

During WW2 all the belligerant nations fought hard and cruel: if Nazi Germany slaughtered 6 millions of Jewish (and 4 millions of of intellectuals, homosexuals, communists, mentally ills...) and the Japanese more than 10 millions of Chinese, don't forget the Soviets, who killed or deported to Siberia after the war millions of Ucrainians and Cossacks who helped the Germans, almost the 95% of the POWs (Italians, Germans, Romanians and Bulgarians), all the Soviet POWs who surrendered to the Germans after the first moments of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union (I'm talking of more than 5 millions of soviet soldiers) and thousand of Polish officiers in 1939-1940 (the massacre of Katina), after the invasion of Poland by both the Germans and the Soviets; the Italians, who killed a million of people in Lybia and Italian Eastern Africa (the actual Ethiopia and Somalia) during their colonial occupation of the country and many people in the occupied areas of Jugoslavia.

Answer 3

They were one and the same on that level. However the Germans on a one on one basis got their hands on more people so if you are gauging the competition by number it would be the Nazi's. But all and all Japan devastated many, hundreds of thousands of people. Philipines,Pearl Harbor, Korea, China, etc., There is no contest. All they ever had to do was to be cruel to one person each in the same way or different it still adds up to be one too many people that were hurt. War is hell and there are no morals with the aggressors.

Answer 4

The USA which dropped nuclear bombs on cities. Look at the American response to the loss of one building in New York, what would they have thought if the whole city, and Los Angeles had been wiped off the face of the earth, just 3 days apart?
They also imprisoned every person of Japanese heritage in the country.

Answer 5

Both the Third Reich and Imperial Japan had a voracious track record of cruelty and total disregard for humanity. However, the systematic slaughter of 6,000,000 people based upon their religion is far more drastic I would think.

Answer 6

Hard choice. They were both animals. Killing and torture by both. I would also say Germany, however, Japan went as far as to eat some of their POWs.

Answer 7

Both, but I'll say Nazi Germany was more cruel.

Answer 8

Both. The only difference is that Germans admitted committing acts of atrocities whereas the Japanese still do not admit, as evidenced in their school history books.

Answer 9

i would say japan cuz they were here n i heard lots og thing about them..saw it also

Answer 10

japan they killed monkeys!!!!!!!