How dirty was the Imperial Japanese Military compared to the Wehrmacht?

How bad was the Imperial Japanese Military compared to the Wehrmacht?

  • Japanese military was worse

    Votes: 4 50.0%
  • Wehrmacht was worse

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • They were equally bad

    Votes: 4 50.0%

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Wehrmacht had honor and many generals opposed those policies being ordered upon them, the Waffen-SS were the dirty ones.
 
Wehrmacht had honor and many generals opposed those policies being ordered upon them, the Waffen-SS were the dirty ones.

I dunno...

I read a book a while back called Soldaten, which really put the kibosh on the 'clean Wehrmacht' schtick. Especially on the Eastern Front :eek: There's a reason the Russians had such a raging hatred for the Germans by the time they reached Berlin, and it was by no means just the SS who caused it.
 
This is called the clean wehrmacht myth. emphasis on myth.

Quite.

TBH, at times the difference between the two was a matter of degrees more than anything else.

POWs? The Japanese killed/maltreated anyone who surrendered. The Germans 'only' did that to Russians or partisans.

Targeting civilians? Both of them did that - the Germans made heavy use of reprisal killings in the East and the West.
 

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This is a Chat thread (it WILL get ugly, all the previous ones have). OP might want to search in Chat, there are a couple humdingers in there.

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