There are no ‘Nazi crimes’ in Japanese history
There are no ‘Nazi crimes’ in Japanese history, according to the title
It is a chapter that I sent out on 2015-03-12.
The following is from Wikipedia.
Gebhard Hielscher
Gebhard Hielscher (1935 – ) is a German journalist. He graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Freiburg. He is a former correspondent for the South German newspaper Japan and currently a professor at Kanagawa University.
Press stance
He has been critical of Japan’s postwar treatment of the world. At Mao Asada’s press conference at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club (April 6, 2007), she asked, “In your life in the U.S., do Americans ever point out that the Japanese prime minister does not tell the truth?
The claim
Fifty-one years after the end of World War II, the Japanese government still clings to the position that bilateral treaties settle all war-era demands and that individual compensation is not an issue. This stubborn refusal, based on nothing more than formal legal theory, has so far blocked the path to reconciliation between Japan and the former belligerents.
But, of course, this refusal has further strengthened the illusion that many Japanese can dodge and dodge confrontation with the dark side of their past. “The Bonn government already proved that this (individual compensation) was possible 40 years ago with the 1965 Federal Security Law.
On the other hand, Kanji Nishio argued that “Germany’s superiority over Japan is common to all his writings comparing the two countries” and that “there are no ‘Nazi crimes’ in Japanese history. There is no ‘Nazi crime’ in Japan’s history, and there is no reason or necessity for Japan to avoid ‘state reparations’ and escape to ‘individual compensation.
Yet, he says, the Japanese are harboring “the illusion that their rejection of personal reparations will allow them to dodge confrontation with the dark side of their past.
What a rude thing for him to say.
I don’t care what people in other countries say. Still, there is absolutely no reason for the Japanese to be told this by the Germans, who have engaged in ethnic extermination, mass killings, human experimentation, sterilization, and euthanasia on a massive scale.