US policy prior to WWII also deemed many with genetic anomalies as not fit to reproduce, subhuman, animalistic and those people were forced to be sterilized, they were studied and very much dehumanized. I think from all I've read the ideas, at least for the Germans, may very well have been learned here in the US as there was much back and forth in the centers for higher education where such darwinistic theories were pushed and eugenics was already being taught.
As an aside, the US was also trafficking children from East coast cities, west to work on farms, on "orphan" trains. While some may have ended up in decent loving homes, many were essentially slave labor.
These heinous ideas and practices have long been accepted in the US.
From what I’ve understood from reading writings of people who fought in both Theaters. The Germans were considered the most “Civilized” of the two. Civilized isn’t the best word choice. But it better describes the differences between the two.
In fact people from one theater could often struggle to understand people who fought in the other. Because the enemies were rather dramatically different.
Cannibalism of both Civilians and POWs by Japanese forces wasn’t an isolated occurrence for instance. It wasn’t widespread. But still was disturbingly frequent.
And the CIA continued to do those experiments.
US policy prior to WWII also deemed many with genetic anomalies as not fit to reproduce, subhuman, animalistic and those people were forced to be sterilized, they were studied and very much dehumanized. I think from all I've read the ideas, at least for the Germans, may very well have been learned here in the US as there was much back and forth in the centers for higher education where such darwinistic theories were pushed and eugenics was already being taught. As an aside, the US was also trafficking children from East coast cities, west to work on farms, on "orphan" trains. While some may have ended up in decent loving homes, many were essentially slave labor. These heinous ideas and practices have long been accepted in the US.
The nazis at least still regarded their subjects as human. The japs called them "logs"
Logs? I doubt that's true. Rogs maybe.
丸太
It's pronounced "maruta."
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E4%B8%B8%E5%A4%AA
Subhuman is still more human than logs.
From what I’ve understood from reading writings of people who fought in both Theaters. The Germans were considered the most “Civilized” of the two. Civilized isn’t the best word choice. But it better describes the differences between the two.
In fact people from one theater could often struggle to understand people who fought in the other. Because the enemies were rather dramatically different.
Cannibalism of both Civilians and POWs by Japanese forces wasn’t an isolated occurrence for instance. It wasn’t widespread. But still was disturbingly frequent.