how did the allied leaders express hypocrisy by convicting japanese and german leaders for war crimes??anyone?

Question

this is for an essay btw=/ it also says to relate it to the holocaust, battle of berlin, rape of nanjung, operation thunderclap, freebombing of tokyo, hiroshima, nagasaki

anyone have any ideas? they will be appreciated soo soo much

this was only a quote that im supposed to assess the validity of

Answer 1

Robert MacNamara said that he had no doubt that US leaders would have been convicted of war crimes for their role in the bombing of Japan. The US fire bombed all of the Japanese cities which were basically all wood. When we dropped the bomb on Japan all of their major cities had been reduced to ashes. The ability to produce ammo and weapons by the Japanese had been totally eliminated. They dropped an atomic bomb killing thousands of civillans and then days later dropped another.

Still, Japan and Germany commited far more (unprovoked) attocities on the civilans in China and Europe then any of the allies.

Answer 2

An interesting question While it is true that there were war crimes on both sides of the conflict, those of the Japanese and germans generally far exceeded those of the Allies both in scope and cruelty. Don't forget that the Japanese leader , Hirohito got off without any punishment and retained his throne until his natural death and many top Nazis such as Werner von Braun were not punished at all but were taken to america where their skills were put to good use, in his case leading the missile and space program

Answer 3

Japanese had a policy of extermination of the chinese population with the object of re poblating the country with their nationals.

There were cases in which japanese soldiers practiced with their bayonets, throwing chinese babies into the air and stabbing them in the air with their bayonets.

This is called genocide.

Germans were also in an official carefully planned policy of exterminating jews, slavs and gypsies. and Lebensraun, according to what was previously published in Hitler´s book "Mein Kampf"

They were taken out of their houses shipped in trains to extermination camps and gassed to death.

Others were used to make seudo scientific experimentation without anestesia, and because of which the mayority died.

Neither the USA, England, Norway, Belgium nor France had any extermination policy.

They were fighting against countries that had FIRST attacked them and that by 1941 were in the verge of total world victory, had it not been for the germans wrong decision to also attack Rusia in june 1941 and the japanese wrong decision, confident by their numerous victories, to also attack the USA on december 1941.

These two late violations tilted the balance against the axis.

The only way to defeat these extremly strong enemies with great resources, that had leveled entire cities in England,France China, Phillipines, Jugoslavia,Holland,Poland, Checoslovaquia, Russia and many others, was a fight to the end.

In those days there were no smart weapons that could pin point especific targets, it was inevitable for civilians to die in bombing operations, mass bombings that were necessary to weaken the enemy if the allies wanted to survive.

The Allies knew the enemy seeked a war of extermination "Lebensraun" to repopulate their countries with their own nationals. (germans, japanese.)

The axis had to be hit with all the allies had, no truce.

Now its easy, and in appearance deeply intelectual that impresses some boneheads, to question the allies´s actions to survive, but had they not valiantly fought as they did, defeating the axis as the did , maybe today a german youth could be sitting WERE YOU ARE, and as a loyal member of the "National Socialist Party" could be praising the victory his country attained 64 years ago.

Your parents would have long ago been 6 feet under.

"Don´t judge the past by the conditions of the present"

Less still, if you know nothing of what World War II was.

Answer 4

Good question indeed. But difficult to answer. In war Victor decides the rule. No one has questioned US on the dropping of Atom bombs on two cities which wiped out millions of innocent people within seconds Or the cruelty on helpless people of Vietnam by Chemical and Nepalm bombs.If you go through the history this has been repeated number of times. And still it continues. Present example is trial of Iraqi Leader Saddam Hussein. The victor always justifies his action by verbal eloquence. As the old adage goes " In love and war end justifies the means" Anger and war destroys lives, truth and moralty..

Answer 5

Not too many people agree that what the Western Allies (the US, Britain, France) did were at all like the atrocities committed by the Nazis and Japanese. The Soviet Union under Stalin, however, committed serious atrocities, and those responsible were never brought to justice.

Answer 6

Allied leaders were not hypocrites for convicting Germans and Japanese leaders for war crimes. Both countries wrongfully tortured and killed millions of people, including American soldiers. They got what they deserved.

Answer 7

Hypocrisy, what a novel idea. Yours or were you fed this by some know-it-all professor, with an axe to grind. How totally absurd. Everytime something like this comes up, the U.S. is maligned. Funny that, how we can be wrong about everything.

Answer 8

yes research admiral donitz and chester nimitz donitz spent 10 yrs in the clink for following an identical order nimitz issues to the american navy concerning survivors of sunk ships

Answer 9

The easy answer is that all the spoils go to the victor. History always remebers the winner.