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Norway all the way.
I'm Chinese.... so, I'll just lay low in Singapore. Better than nothing, if I feint that I am just a labourer and bow as much as possible... I think I'll make it.
I seem to recall the Japanese in Singapore rounding up Chinese, chaining them together, and then throwing them into the harbour and machine-gunning them until they sank...I'm Chinese.... so, I'll just lay low in Singapore. Better than nothing, if I feint that I am just a labourer and bow as much as possible... I think I'll make it.
If you're into Heydrich, I guess Czechoslovakia is pretty cool![]()
I seem to recall the Japanese in Singapore rounding up Chinese, chaining them together, and then throwing them into the harbour and machine-gunning them until they sank...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sook_Ching_massacre
From what I understand the Japanese might well have ended up killing as much as 10%+ of the population, virtually all Chinese.
If you're into Heydrich, I guess Czechoslovakia is pretty cool![]()
The Japanese military weren't as genocidal crazy as the Germans. They might have saw themselves as a superior race, but not the only one who deserved to lived.
Well, sure. Less sure it in any way commends the Japanese occupation of Singapore? Proportional to the size of the city, it was killing on a pretty massive scale even by WWII standards.They machined gun those who served as a threat to Japan and her occupation.
Usually, the intellectuals, those active in resistance, sometimes the rich. If you were useless and didn't pose a threat to Japan's occupation short of collaboration, you would survive, albeit, starving and abused.
Generally speaking, in most places they went the Germans weren't genocidal crazy either. Which still doesn't commend them in any way.The Japanese military weren't as genocidal crazy as the Germans. They might have saw themselves as a superior race, but not the only one who deserved to lived.
In some places, working with the Japanese led to you becoming President of a newly independent nation-state. Collaborators don't always get their come-uppance.Move far enough down that line of thinking, and obviously it would be possible to work for the Japanese as well (not a few did), and thus come through most of WWII in relative comfort - just up until the very end and the come-uppance that is.
In some places, working with the Japanese led to you becoming President of a newly independent nation-state. Collaborators don't always get their come-uppance.
Because they played the anti-Dutch or anti-Communist card better than others?I think a key point here, rather than just assuming all collaborators are bad, is to ask ourselves "why didn't they just get their come-uppance".
It's a little fuzzy. The general thought is that the death sentence wasn't carried out because he provided information on the communist cell he was in. Of course the fact that he was in a communist cell was swept under the rug after that.I think a key point here, rather than just assuming all collaborators are bad, is to ask ourselves "why didn't they just get their come-uppance".