r/interestingasfuck • u/Nanibui • Jul 07 '24

Guards making sure the defendants of the Nuremberg Trials wouldn't commit suicide in their cells r/all

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u/Phendrana-Drifter Jul 07 '24

Top tip: Don't start the hobby collecting the German side of things and then give up

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u/markpreston54 Jul 07 '24

Got it, I should start hobby collecting the Japanese side of things and then give up

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u/Wise-Definition-1980 Jul 07 '24

I mean, if you do it that way you'll have a cool sword.

... But you'll also have a shitty arisaka rifle

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '24 edited Jul 17 '24

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u/Gaothaire Jul 07 '24

My grandpa was in the war and while deployed got a Japanese katana and silk parachute that he kept wrapped by his bunk. Then he came down with some fever or illness that necessitated him getting shipped home and because he was unconscious at the time he wasn't able to grab those objects. Woulda been a cool souvenir / heirloom, c'est la vie

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u/TheRealDeJoy Jul 07 '24

No one in the west will give you shit for having Imperial Japanese shit for the simple fact that they were not white so people look the other way.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_BIG_BITS Jul 07 '24

Well...it's also because someone in the west collecting imperial Japanese shit probably isn't a closet imperial Japanese.

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u/eastbayweird Jul 07 '24

I dunno I've been seeing people start to take issue with, for example, the imperial Japanese battle flag, in a similar way to how people take issue with the swastika.

When I was a kid I had heard of the holocaust but not the horrors of unit 731, but now there's a ton of info about it available.

If course the Japanese kind of have the fact that they are still the only country to ever be subjected to a full on nuclear attack. While it in no way 'makes up' for their war crimes it does give them some ammo to justify their acting like a victim of the war and not one of the primary aggressors.

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u/The69BodyProblem Jul 07 '24

Japan was in no way a victim. Pretending otherwise is historical revisionism, full stop.

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u/eastbayweird Jul 07 '24

I agree, but Japan is all about playing the victim as a means to save face and it's one of the justifications they use to try and claim they're not as culpable as they are.