As an American, I feel like we don't hear enough about the Australian, New Zealand, and other allied soldier war stories that occurred in the South Pacific and South East Asia, so thanks for producing these stories.

@thekinginyellow1744

2 жыл бұрын

Read Nevil Shute, esp. "A town like Alice". Was made into an outstanding movie as well.

@frankegan2022

2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately there is a very one sided story to,the war in the Pacific, not withstanding the bravery and courage of US Forces there were a host of nations that fought and died as well, it’s is also sad that the first defeat of Japanese forces on land was made at Milne Bay by Australian soldiers and a handful of American Engineers has been overshadowed , history goes to those who speak loudly

@trisblackshaw1640

2 жыл бұрын

As an Australian, it's pretty appalling considering what our troops went through in places like Malaya and New Guinea, I agree.

@jeremyd1869

2 жыл бұрын

Probably because MacArthur relegated them to minor actions where they were wasted. He didn't want any competition from the Anzacs for his precious publicity. (Says this Yank.)

@cornholius

2 жыл бұрын

Eh it's not a competition. I commend everyone that served with the allies regardless of the nation. As an American, obviously I'm going to pay tribute to my family members. Can't really blame anyone as pretty much the whole world prefers to forget times of war. With the exception of historians, militaria collectors, and kin of veterans(not absolute, some don't care)

Somethings can never be forgiven and must never be forgotten. My uncle was there and what these prisoners endured was a war crime that has not been resolved. Thanks for bringing their story to a wider audience Mark.

@WarStorieswithMarkFelton

4 жыл бұрын

My pleasure. My paternal grandfather was a Burma veteran. I recall his stories vividly.

@knutdergroe9757

4 жыл бұрын

Forgive..... ? FORGOTTEN, NEVER !!! Taking Responsibility, Goes a long way towards healing. Japan has never learn this.

@hodaka1000

4 жыл бұрын

@@WarStorieswithMarkFelton Keith Botterill is my father. He past away in 1997 but still speaks on video at the National War Memorial Canberra

@otterinbham9641

4 жыл бұрын

@Yar Nunya Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the firebombings do not begin to compare to the sadism of the Japanese. Hell, the Sack of Nanking along resulted in more than 300,000 Chinese civilian deaths by even the most conservative estimates.

@fourutubez7294

4 жыл бұрын

@@WarStorieswithMarkFelton My Grandad spent the bulk of the war driving lorries in Liverpool then France for the RAF. The rest he spent in Burma. He'd talk all day about day about Liverpool and France but he never would speak about Burma to anyone but other servicemen who were there too .

Incredible courage exhibited by these men under appalling conditions. Bravery on a scale that most of us can only imagine

Thank you so much for writing and presenting this story. There are many Australians who don’t forget the abject cruelty that the Japanese inflicted on our troops as those of our allies. Thanks for keeping the memory alive.

I wish i had you as a history teacher at school.

@otm646

4 жыл бұрын

I'd rather have him now, when I have the years to appreciate the content fully.

@chuckchuckson4052

4 жыл бұрын

Hopefully he would begin his class lectures with his intro music

@emadbagheri

3 жыл бұрын

I think Mark wood agree, that history is it's own best teacher, you just need to go after it.

@steverico3090

3 жыл бұрын

"You are listening to my voice, Mike Felton, teaching you war crimes today. All first graders place listen. "

@decem_sagittae

3 жыл бұрын

Dr Felton is a professor. Being a mere teacher is beneath his dignity.

For every British, Australian, Canadian, American Dutch etc soldier who had become prisoners of the Japanese, it's important to remember that millions of Chinese prisoners of war and civilians in Japanese occupied Chinese territory, and also the many ethnic Chinese migrants that had moved to places like Singapore, Malaya, Thailand, Indonesia (Nederland East Indies), present day Vietnam and Myanmar/Burma etc were murdered in their hundreds, as well as many Indonesian and Malays, Filipinos, Thais and other Burmese, Vietnamese and Bengali and other Indian groups, plus Papuan and New Guineans, Soloman Islanders, Melanesian and Micronesian and Polynesian people etc that also suffered from Japanese occupations. And the Indian Sikhs, Punjabi, Rajput, Assamese, Bengali, Madras and Ceylonese, etc and Gurkhas, Malay and East Indian troops, Burmese and other local troops who were unfortunate enough to become prisoners of war of the Japanese. The murder of unarmed and wounded western soldiers was inexcusable but it should never be forgotten that they were just a small fraction of the total number of POWs and civilians who were killed, beaten, tortured and starved by the Imperial Japanese forces.

@BenState

2 жыл бұрын

whataboutism is dumb

@charleshowie2074

Жыл бұрын

🤨

@thanoscube8573

Жыл бұрын

Let it be known

@tomfrazier1103

Жыл бұрын

Racism doesn't belong to Europeans exclusively..

I was privileged to have met Russ Ewin in 2014 as part of a student group that went to Borneo to learn about the POW experiences there as well as the Australian liberation of the island in 1945. I was a teenager at the time and it was incredible to hear his firsthand account of the underground movement in Kuching and the incredible personal risks he took to support the underground communications. He was in his late 90s at the time but was incredibly sharp and active. My group was in Perth Western Australia and he had come via rail all the way from Sydney. He then went around the south-west of the state accompanied by the son of a Sandakan escapee, visiting various RSL clubs and community organisations. He had even wanted to take the 3-day train trip aboard the Indian-Pacific on his own but eventually agreed to have somebody go with him. He passed away in 2017 at the age of 100.

Thank you very much for taking the time to tell a story about alot of Australian soldiers my father had tears in his eyes listening being a veteran

Excellent work Mark. The uncle of a friend I play music with died in the Sandakan Death March. I have a book on the event, with a list of prisoners involved. Lest We Forget.

And yet Japanese convicted of war crimes, including tojo are revered as heroes and worshipped at the Yasukuni Shrine in Japan to this day..

@duckdockdank5206

4 жыл бұрын

@Niko say that to my ancestors whos future were cut short in the bataan death march and many other civilians killed inhumanely

@djohnson2194

4 жыл бұрын

The Japanese Government still denies that their soldiers enslaved women and young girls as " comfort women" to serve as sexual slaves for the soldiers. Have you ever read about the thousands of women who were raped when the Japanese invaded Hong Kong ?

@vermicelledecheval5219

4 жыл бұрын

@Niko One who's not looking into his own past history is utterly condemned to revive it. The silence from Japan on its terrible past is... disturbing... the least to say...👽

I'm so glad this is brought up. I live in Sandakan. The former POW camp is now a memorial park surrouded by suburbs. It's hard to believe that this common looking neighborhood lives under the shadow of its dark history.

Till the day he died my grandfather hated the Japanese and loved the ANZAC's

@donhancock332

3 жыл бұрын

So did my Father. He was stationed at Fort Moresby, New Guinea.

@thekinginyellow1744

2 жыл бұрын

@@donhancock332 Port Moresby? I've never heard it called Fort Moresby, but I could be wrong.

I've just come across these stories. I have found a true gold mine.

@WarStorieswithMarkFelton

4 жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard!

Also the bravery of individuals such as Lionel Mathews is barley known by people in Australia which is very saddening.

@jerryeinstandig7996

Жыл бұрын

barley is a component of beer

Let us not forget the bravery.

Thanks for remembering these men, and what they went thru, thanks to your work they are still remembered today!

And still Japan refuses to acknowledge fully its despicable actions against Allied Prisoners of war or the brutality meted out to those unfortunate enough to be under their control/occupation. Having seen the reaction of Japanese tourists at Changi Jail online (one of absolute horror and disbelief) it would probably serve them well and educate(if not justify) as to why their forefathers were the ‘victims’ of two Atomic bomb blasts and the utter horror that those weapons caused when dropped on those two cities. My uncle served in Burma towards the end and his hatred for ‘The Japs’ was complete. To think that today Japan is better known for ‘Pokemon’ and ‘Cosplay Cafes’ than War Crimes/crimes against humanity by most young people. This story needs sharing, the memory and these stories about our servicemen deserves to be remembered. Thank you Mark Felton.

@ronank2432

3 жыл бұрын

definitely youngsters in south east asia knows all the atrocities, our school even taught different torture methods made by the japanese. Also this video confirms for some reason imperial jp loves death marches (which also occured here)

I believe it’s likely that if the Allied troops in Malaya had known what awaited them if they surrendered, their defense of Singapore might have shown enough desperate ferocity to overcome even the folly and incompetence of their own commanders, if only for a time. But at this early stage of the Pacific War, the Japanese could still plausibly promise their opponents they would be well treated as POW’s.

My father was a U.S. Army platoon leader who served with Australian soldiers in cleaning Japanese forces from New Guinea in WW Two. He remarked to me that he had the greatest respect...and personal liking for the Aussie infantryman. In combat, taking Japanese prisoners, because of their unspeakably vicious behavior to allied prisoners, was never a priority. But if taken, the Japanese prisoner was treated decently... in most instances.

Sadly this is the kind of history that japan fails to teach its own children.

@petewood2350

4 жыл бұрын

But happy to complain about two bombs that saved many thousands of Allied Lives.

@willatkins9686

4 жыл бұрын

Had recently Japanese students, did not know they lost the war!

@robertely686

4 жыл бұрын

Sadly, Britain fails to teach its own children, amongst other things, about the concentration camps their government built around the world in the early 1900s, the chemical weapons used by Britain on Middle Eastern civilians, the opium trade they forced on China or the fake evidence and false flags they still use to promote their imperialistic wars. Every country does the same.

@rowbearly6128

4 жыл бұрын

Not like the USA and its teaching of its history of treachery,theft,illegal invasions and funding and support of murderous tyrants worldwide...heh..not like that at all..

@rowbearly6128

4 жыл бұрын

@@petewood2350 Ah, another yank obsessed with a war that ended in the first half of the last century..lets talk about Abu Grhaib and the torture of civilians, or the systematic murder of civilians in Iraq and Syria, not to mention Afghanistan and Sth America.,Vietnam or Granada, Nicuragua or Korea.....nope lets focus on the war that Hollywood tells you you won single handedly...what a joke.

Nothing like working in the wood shop with Mark Felton on the 📺 listening an working....! Well.. Mostly listening...!

My mums brother was in a camp he had nightmares every night until he died in the late 80s

@dannynrny473

3 жыл бұрын

May he rest in peace

The Kokoda campaign would be a worthy subject Mark.

That one was heavy... Makes you appreciate everything you have. I know it's cliché but we have those things because of these men. THANK YOU to ALL Allied veterans. I'm American and of course want to believe America stepped in and won the war but that's far from the truth. ALL allied were hero's.

Well this isn't going to be a cheery walk in the park.

Thank you for airing this horrific episode in history.

Yamashita was convicted and hanged yet so many fled responsibility.

Thanks Mark for making this. It's one of the historal event in my country that I don't know much as they never focus much about the history of WW2 event that happened in the country.

@enverhoxha545

2 жыл бұрын

kalau kami kat kedah kami mesti igt battle of jitra and battle of gurun

Every episode leaves my head spinning. So many details...it's like reading an entire book in 30 minutes. Thank you Dr. Felton for another history rush.

An absolutely horrifying telling of amazing bravery in the face of tremendous adversity! Matthews and his Company and their story should never be forgotten. Thank you Mark for preserving this awe inspiring tale of heroism amidst the struggle for survival bound by loyalty. Well done!

The problem of waiting: Mark Felton Uploads Chapter 1 of an as yet indeterminate series... Watch now, wonder when the story ends, or, wait a few weeks for the potential uninterrupted immersion of an extended listening session?

My dad was over there as part of the U.S. Army. Thankfully he survived the island hopping. Passing in 1997, he gave me his captured Japanese Nambu pistol.

Last year, I visited the Sandakan Death March Memorial Park. It was so beautiful, designed with English architecture and gardens. Felt pity towards the soldiers who endured so much terror.

I live in Borneo and will be visiting Sandakan later this year.

@oddballsok

4 жыл бұрын

nothing to see there. Only a good ferry link to Zamboanga.

@archstanton6102

4 жыл бұрын

@@oddballsok Apart from the Orangutan sanctuary

@donmoniesta9967

3 жыл бұрын

Go mile 7 Taman Rimba, Sandakan

You have a pretty good Australian accent there Mark, far more nuanced than most people. Good job mate!

@WarStorieswithMarkFelton

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks - I try my best, and hope I didn't offend you chaps down under. I had a few Aussies mates when I lived in Shanghai.

@vellocet2438

4 жыл бұрын

@@WarStorieswithMarkFelton No offense at all mate, you did a great job with everything :)

Life could be more unbelievable then fiction. Respect to the POWs and the locals who helped. Thank you for this wonderful audiobook, Dr. Felton

Thanks Mark!

@WarStorieswithMarkFelton

4 жыл бұрын

Welcome!

Fantastic video as always Mark! Its tragic that stories of the Japanese atrocities seem to have been "swept under the rug" or "forgotten" as compared to the atrocities committed by Germany.

Hello, I am trying to watch this, but I can't. My wife's Uncle Mott died on the march. We visited the National War Museum in Canberra and obtained as much information as we could, but there was very little other than he died on the march.

In his book "Doing Battle" Paul Fussell makes the point that the hated and feared Japanese fanaticism meant gigantic casualties were unavoidable were the home islands invaded and thus the atom bomb was cheered. The suffering of the Japanese by that time was not a concern.

@robertely686

4 жыл бұрын

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@jimbo5973

4 жыл бұрын

@@robertely686The Americans when they captured outlying Japanese home islands were witness to mass civilian suicides as a result. What do you imagine from your self righteous high horse would have happened had the allies had to make landings on mainland Japan and invade? The prediction was millions of honour suicides not the thousands the bombs killed. This figure does not even include the estimated allied combat casualties. They brought it on themselves ultimately do not forget Japan chose to attack China (where they committed some of the worst atrocities ever witnessed) and the US etc.

@robertely686

4 жыл бұрын

@@jimbo5973 Sorry, but I do not believe had the nuclear bomb not been dropped that more Japanese would have died through suicide. Whilst on the subject, I'd be interested to hear your take on the American soldiers suicide rate - why do more American soldiers die by suicide than on the battlefield? Is it because of honor?

@jimbo5973

4 жыл бұрын

@@robertely686 I question the validity of that statistic, and the context, with the amount who served and died in WW2 alone. My grandfather being one who died in the fighting for Caen after landing at Normandy. Maybe in the modern era, but that was not what we were discussing and would be a deflection. Incidently, the main thing that has changed dramatically since WW2 for ex servicemen is they are vilified by elements of the media and political establishment as well as the liberal left in general in it's insatiable quest for minority votes and the continued abandonment of the native working class voter. Everything pointed towards a mass suicide all the Japanese home islands that were taken displayed this behaviour and we are not even talking including the Japanese military suicides and suicide attacks etc.

@garretth8224

3 жыл бұрын

@@robertely686 Maybe because most of our military isn't in active conflicts? Suicide has actually always been an issue for veterans its called PTSD. Having to shoot a 12 year old with an ak47 who was corrupted by extremism is pretty scarring.

Compelling stuff, such a dark period for so many people; thanks again.

@WarStorieswithMarkFelton

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for listening

Mark, Another great, informative and insightful video, you have great narrative talent, which makes it a joy to listen too.

awesome video

Dr Felton, I’m a comparatively new follower of your superlative work, of a mere few weeks. I have to confess, though, that this particular series had me utterly transfixed. And awfully upset. My own great uncle, Thomas Holloway, a member of the guerrilla force,the stay-behind troops of Commonwealth soldiers remaining in Japanese-occupied of what was then known, as you all too well aware, not as East Timor, but ‘ Portuguese Timor ‘. Captured and somehow or other reported by the Red Cross as dead, his wife remarried whilst he was in captivity. Amongst many of the other abominable crimes he both witnessed and suffered personally, was being forced to watch nuns raped, tortured, and murdered on a pier in Singapore. In the aftermath of the war he attended no commemorations, marches, reunions, or gatherings of any sort. He spent six months in hospital upon his return to Darwin in 1945, weighing a mere few stone. Whenever family members caught a glimpse of his back or chest ( laced and ruined with a myriad of ever-present lurid scars ), he used to brush it aside as the results of a ‘ childhood accident ‘. One of the very, very few things he ever uttered about his captivity ( Changi, and Thailand ) , was the following : at the dead of night, a kind and humane guard used to sneak in rice and other foodstuffs to the POWs, at the risk of his very own life. Uncle Tommy may very well have not survived the myriad of abuses and torments without the incredibly brave decency of that guilt-stricken guard.

Saved my sunday evening. Thank you Mark.

wowww nice Thanks for making a video about the history of Sandakan Im from Sandakan, Sabah.

@WarStorieswithMarkFelton

4 жыл бұрын

It's my pleasure

Excellent video Mark.

This channel is amazing, can't wait to blitz through it! Right, now for episode 2!

I have always struggled to understand the concept of the fall of the Japanese honor code with the Japanese military during WWII. How could such an educated civilized culture could create such men with so little honor and dignity and respect for human life is baffling. I doubt highly that the vast majority of the Japanese soldiers would have ever predicted their own inhuman treatment of others before their entrance into the war. What a fall from grace from the Eight Virtues of the Bushido to uncompromising barbarism. One of the Eight Virtues of the Bushido is benevolence and compassion : "Through intense training and hard work the true warrior becomes quick and strong. They are not as most people. They develop a power that must be used for good. They have compassion. They help their fellow men at every opportunity. If an opportunity does not arise, they go out of their way to find one." Nitobe Inazō, The Soul of Japan ,1900

@BrorealeK

4 жыл бұрын

The fetishization of the warrior code itself leeches away human compassion. You create two distinct classes: warriors, who are free to exert their violent impulses on all who irk them, save those stronger than them; and non-warriors, who can be treated with contempt for the mere sin of not being able to defend themselves. Civilians, ethnic minorities, and most especially prisoners of war have no legal nor natural rights under such a system. Though at first blush the Japanese warrior code seems to value gentility above all else, in practice this set of beliefs, mostly codified after the samurai had become irrelevant, merely sets apart armed men as a cut above normal people, not beholden to mundane laws set by civilian politicians. Under the Japanese Imperial cult this took on another, soon twisted interpretation: the warrior must go out to do what he thinks is best for his master, with or without explicit orders or even permission, even if what he thinks is best is radical or even extremely violent.

@BrorealeK

4 жыл бұрын

It's easy to call this fascism, but really it's almost a religious philisophy. Like the Zen Buddhism of war crimes.

@davidearea242

4 жыл бұрын

@@BrorealeK -Or maybe they were just full of shit...

@jameswells-uk6qu

4 жыл бұрын

Pure EVIL..idc..about philosophy or philosophers or "religious" ideology/ customs..whatever!

@craigdouglas9806

4 жыл бұрын

Omg THAK YOU! YES!

Hellllzzz Yeahhh!! Been waiting for a new one! Keep em’ commin’ Felton!!

Thanks for this Mark. My grandfather was a Chindit who very rarely spoke of his experiences in WW2.

@defendermodsandtravels

3 жыл бұрын

So was my father.

@kirkc4696

3 жыл бұрын

Your grandfather was a brave man as all the Chindits were..

Excellent vid Mark.

Wow, what a story! Thank you!

During WW2 there were many stories of inhuman treatment of Allied POWs by the Axis powers. However, the IJA abuse of prisoners is one-step-beyond. I think everyone should remember these things and try to know them as well as they can. I have a book written by a US soldier who was a 'participant' on the Bataan Death March and later in the hell ships, then working for years in mines in Japan. I don't believe most people today can conceive of such things. Having read numerous accounts of the types of treatment and torture that the Japanese handed out to prisoners, I've always thought, I'd just quietly leave, disappear anyway I could. I don't believe any soldier should take an order to surrender when it means you're going to be tortured like these guys were. I've read too many accounts of military brass failures to think of their orders as infallible. I'd never make a good soldier.

A superb story of courage and cruelty...I am always aware of the restraint by the Allies in getting retribution after the war. Many, many more Japanese officers and soldiers should have been imprisoned and executed after the war than were so treated. How Japan got off so easy rankles me to this day.

@WarStorieswithMarkFelton

4 жыл бұрын

I've raised this issue in several of my Far Eastern books - unfortunately, the answer is fairly simple.

There was also cannibalism of POW's too by the Formosans.

You're the man Mark!

Glory halleluja ... mr Matthew died but the soul keeps marchin in . Thanks Mark we would like to forget those episodes but we don t have too. You shed light on many episodes that we know throught movies made by the winners. A sensational contribution to enlight the darkest moment in human history to get closer to truth and historical objectivity. The greatness of the human spirit comes out in those difficult moments. A ray of light in the insane darkness. Those people have to be remembered. We don t want them to have died invane. Regards from Italy

Thank you for sharing this Mark 👍👍👍🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

Another outstanding episode !

You, I suspect, have a natural born talent for story telling. I'm always on the edge of my seat through any of your `videos'. Thank you for sharing!

Thank you, Dr Felton -- I greatly appreciate your historical podcasts on the Pacific and coverage of the A.I.F. prisoners and their Japanese captors. Lest We Forget.

This was a brilliant video. I highly enjoyed it.

@WarStorieswithMarkFelton

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

I can confidently say I could never stand up to that kind of torture.....

Love love love the content.

Your narration makes closing ones eyes and being right in the story 👌

Thanks Mr Mark!

@WarStorieswithMarkFelton

4 жыл бұрын

You are welcome!

Thank you

@WarStorieswithMarkFelton

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome

Awesome narration Mark 🙌

I like how you did the accents for this one. Its a nice little touch.

My Father fought in New Guinea New Britain and moriti from '42. He was then sent to Japan as part of the Commonwealthoccupation forces until 1947. He never forgot or forgave the things he saw.

Keep them coming Mark

Thanks for this history lesson mark. I live in Kota Kinabalu, just 300+km from sandakan.

Love your audio video thank you

nice video

Really enjoyed your series on the Rat Line. Please keep it coming.

Extremely tough to listen to what those brave men went through, but appreciate your work.

Great job Mark! Your Aussie accent is coming along nicely ;-)

ITS GOT NOTHING TOO DO WHITH SADLY , JUST WHY NOT IS THIS HISTORY TAUGHT TODAY THANK YOU MR FELTON KEEP THIS GOOD WORK GOING CHEERS .

Lest we forget uncle, first March , C.E. Burns . Having been along march route , one of the greatest feats of human endurance by our diggers , thanks for highlighting this story as these men have been abandoned by the Australian government for 70 years our governments greatest shame in not informing the families or celebrating their feat of human endurance. Thanks to locals for helping our diggers despite the Japanese doing unthinkable atrocities to there own villages. Lest we forget

I remember learning about this during my IET at Singleton in the Australian Army in the early 2000's. I love Japanese culture, but in WW2 their behaviour was absolutely deplorable. (edit: not bad on the Aussie accent old boy lol.)

Your voice and theme music are wonderful to hear.

Good stuff.

I think about this every time I see a Veteran license plate on a Toyota or worse a Mitsubishi.

@baneofbanes

2 жыл бұрын

The wars been over for 80 odd years. The Japanese where crushed and punished. The younger generations do not bear the blame of those who come before them.

This is why I don't feel sorry for how we expedited the end of the war.

Prime Minister Paul Keating has spoken of his late uncle Bill ( William) Keating, who died on the sandakan march.

To perform an inhumanity, one has simply not to recognize a fellowman. - Nicolas Grimaldi

Why a george cross the Japanese were most definitely the enemy still. Mathews should have received a VC

@WarStorieswithMarkFelton

4 жыл бұрын

The VC is only awarded for actions in the face of the enemy, ie combat. The GC is the same level as the VC and is awarded for civilian gallantry and to service members for gallantry not in battle. The GC is actually rarer.

@TOO_TALL305

4 жыл бұрын

War Stories with Mark Felton well I never thought I would be so honored to have you comment on one of my comments Dr. Felton, Thank you for shining light on the reason behind the GC being awarded and not a VC. Keep up your amazing videos. They are what I look forward to listening to while I walk to my university lectures.

After Hiroshima, "So sorry!"

@MitzvosGolem1

4 жыл бұрын

They were given two opportunity to surrender before first nuke and after first nuke dropped still no surrender...

@Subcomandante73

4 жыл бұрын

@@MitzvosGolem1 Still not 'sorry'. Japan refuses to face up to what they did, so for me there can be no forgiveness. I used to live next door to a former japanese prisoner of war, they suffered a lot.

@CFinch360

4 жыл бұрын

Sorry not sorry

@roamereasy9737

4 жыл бұрын

@Yar Nunya "People has nothing to do with the conflict!"? What about the Japanese civilians and school boys and girls cheering the victory of aggression at cities of China mainland? What about the notorious photo appearing on the front page of Japanese newspaper about the "Chop-head-off completion" between two Japanese military officers after conquering NanKing in order to punish NanKing civilians as well as POWs for their defense?

...In the final photograph displayed in this video, the tall allied soldier standing with his hands raised at the far right of the group of prisoners looks a lot like a young Sean Connery.

We should not ever forget what the 'civilized ' nations of Japan and Germany should not ever be forgotten. Japan not teaching history as to how it really happened in WW2 , will just mean history will repeat itself again. So keep up the good work.

@halojump123

3 жыл бұрын

Ir is happening again. All one has to do is look at China. As in the late 30’z with Japan, China is walking in Japans footsteps.

Chinese civilian were treated similar if not worse, at the 29 million statistic. "You are a nazi" is the wrong insult

@RebeccaCampbell1969

4 жыл бұрын

The logic behind both Germany and Japan is very interesting to understand and study. Germans suffered the 1800's philosophers collectivism brainwash, that produced Karl Marx to some extent.... Nazi believed they were the only human beings, all human rights were theirs and below them the rest were lesser in a similar way than intersectionality. "You can't be a nazi if you are not german" is a sad, true, factual statement. Japanese believed in honor, their living deity and how loosing meant no honor, so it meant to end own life. They saw any loosing civilians or enemy soldiers this way.... "why take prisoners? They should kill themselves..." from this comes all the horrors civilians in Asia and POWs endured, plus the psychopaths monsters this ideology create or gives refuge. The same goes for German soldiers... humanism was gone from the teachings learned at school, all thanks to those philosophers and their pseudo theories created after the Prussian catastrophe in the early 1800's. Not all lost their humanism, but like pedophile catholic priests and nuns who join the order because they will be near boys or girls the German soldiers joined to do atrocities.... a few, but just too many. Misery existed before WW2... the war made it easy to flourish. And it could have been avoided by both nations, but they couldn't or just wouldn't. Damn history

@peetena1481

4 жыл бұрын

@@RebeccaCampbell1969 Ugh the Germans considered the Brits, Dutch, French, Swiss, Swedes, Danes, Norwegians, Finns as cultural AND blood equals so there goes that theory of yours. There were entire regiments and divisions in the Waffen SS made up of people from these nations, all volunteers. The Charlemagne Division being an example and if I remember correctly that unit was French. Some of the fiercest fighting in the Battle of Berlin was centered around these units as they had nothing left to go home to so the only future for these units required victory. For these men, give me liberty or give me death was as far from the american ideal as is humanly possible.

@lifesagamesobeawinner

4 жыл бұрын

@@RebeccaCampbell1969 humanism, Don't you mean humanity?

@aluckyshot

3 жыл бұрын

@@RebeccaCampbell1969 you should demand a refund on whatever schlomo history book you got most of that from. Germans didn't look down on everyone lol.

Two nukes weren't enough

@rowbearly6128

4 жыл бұрын

They weren't nukes, they were atomic bombs. Cretin.

@muwuny

4 жыл бұрын

@@rowbearly6128 Atomic bombs are just a type of nuclear bomb, nice attempt at trying to sound intelligent and knowledgeable with misinfo though.

@rowbearly6128

4 жыл бұрын

@@muwuny At least I'm not still carrying on about a conflict which ended in the first half of the last century, and throwing genocidal comments about,like a child.

@muwuny

4 жыл бұрын

@@rowbearly6128 Genocide of our enemies is completely justified if it saves even one British life.

@Denis-tg6jw

4 жыл бұрын

No sympathy for the Germans, even after the terrifying bombing of Dresden and the accompanying civilian deaths, but great sympathy for the Japanese because they were the targets of atomic bombs. In truth the Japanese launched a genocidal war of destruction every bit as horrific as anything that emerged from Nazi Germany. They paid a terrible price for inflicting unspeakable horror on others. Hardly a reason for sympathy.

I have been to Sandakan. I broke my hire car trying to get up-hill to the British war cemetery.

Enjoy your work Mark. Maybe you have heard of Tasman Millington a Tasmanian who fought in WW1 and was in charge of the Commonwealth Graves at Gallipoli when WW2 broke out. His exploits in between the wars and in WW2 puts "James Bond" in the shade. There is a book called Millington's Mission, now out of print. His story would make a great film.

Good work I enjoyed the episode, now I will tell a story told to me when I was working in the suburbs of Adelaide about twenty years ago. The chap was a p.o.w somewhere in Borneo I think. He told of how the Japanese guards used to like to visit the nearby village at night for the girls. He said that it was not unusual to find the victim's of their 'fun' slumped or tied against a tree that they had to pass in the morning on the way to work. One dawn out to work there was again, a village girl. This time she had been stripped, crucified, and disembowelled. He was 18, a virgin - the first time he had seen a woman naked. I state this as true as it was told to me.

The last part when Matthews refuses a blindfold gave me chills, what absolute balls.

This is the good stuff

A group of Australian paratroopers were trained to jump into sandakan and save the prisoners held there. Only one fly in the scheme of things, Macarthur would not release the dc3 aircraft available at the time, the paratroopers were not used and the prisoners were not rescued

The movie three came home with Claudette Colbert was about Sandakan and Kuching prison camps