Comments on: Korean Soldiers in WW2 German Army

By: Manny

Manny — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:52:04 +0000

I tend to agree with Noy that most of the atrocities commuted here in the Philippines were Korean conscripts. My Grandpa and my mom who lives in the southern parts of the Philippines used to tell me of cruelties inflicted by the Japanese Army on Filipinos. She tells me specifically that they were Korean conscripts – cruel, uneducated – the Japanese Officers were more humane ( although some of them were also cruel )based on her experiences.

Just stating the facts of witnesses who were actually there.

By: Ian Buttridge

Ian Buttridge — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 15:03:53 +0000

My dad was in a Japanese concerntraion camp in Hong Kong as a child and had much the same to say about the Korean guards (who I think where there from the begining, but I will ask him). It’s a sad truth that they had probably been brought up under cruelty from the Japanese occupiers….and it breeds on itself.

However as to why they were “repatriated” to Russia and why there needed to be an exchange of prisoners, perhaps one of the darker spots of US history after the war. One of my professors talked about how they were rounded up and shipped east, probably to be executed. His comments as I remember (and he was close to tears as he said this)…”Of course we knew what would happen to them, but we obeyed orders”…..The US and British Governments knew, just look at the name of the operation —”Keelhaul”. He said he latter found out some GI’s had left the door to a church open where they had rounded up the Russian army volunteers and some had escaped….”So I didn’t murder as many as I thought I had”. He was telling this story as an explanation of Regular German Army attorcities during the Holocost. ….”We knew there would be punishment for disobeying orders, and the German army was more extreme”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Keelhaul

Ian

By: Doug

Doug — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:27:05 +0000

The Soviet-Japanese war was fought in 1939 which the Soviets won.

By: LolatNoy

LolatNoy — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:51:05 +0000

Noy is a troll. There has been a lot of fabrication lately to direct the cruelty of the Imperial Japanese Army on to the Koreans.

By: Noy

Noy — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:42:18 +0000

Hi, Im from the Philippines. My Grandparents used to tell me stories of the Japanese occupation here. It was well known that most of the officers were Japanese and some soldiers were Japanese as well. But it was also known that the conscripts were mostly Korean. Being so, there were communication problems of orders leading to bungled implementation and often times misinterpreted by the subordinates. As they told me, the atrocities here were caused mostly by the Koreans. Maybe because there were ordered by their superiors. It was not made clear to me.

The people did live in fear that when a Korean platoon would come to town, they knew there would be trouble. They committed crimes like throwing babies in the air and bayonetting them. They also frequently raped the women. When they were being lead by Japanese officers or if the platoon was mostly Japanese, they felt safer as the Japanese officers did not tolerate these incidents.

Again, these are stories told to me by my Grandparents.