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Again, a concentration is different to a death camp.
I am not trying to downplay the Japanese war crimes, or claim that one genocide is somehow "worse" than another - I am simply saying that there are both unique events.
As for the statement "that were so horrifying that even Hitler was disgusted and refused to use it on the Jews"... I dont want to be confrontational, in a thread like this more than any - but this is really an incrediblely glib over-simplification of one of the greatest horrors, or two of the great horrors known to mankind.
The idea of Japanese leaders passing on idea's to Hitler, who is somehow completely in control of the whole enterprise, and him turning them down because they are too ghastly... is beyond credulity. I cannot imagine how such a thing could be suggested.
The murder of 5 1/2 million people, or the even higher number killed in WWII by Japanese forces is not some kind of event that is controlled and planned by men like Hitler, who decide what "kinds of torture and experiments" can be performed and which cant.
These are world scale tragedies, collective madnesses.
What marked the death camp, and the concentration camp that became a death camp was not so much the level of sadism (although of course, there were sadists)
What was remarkable was not the Auscwitz guard who would string up a prisoner by their arms, and then stand at a distance and take pot shots to see how few shots he could take to shoot away enough flesh that they would fall.... monsterous sadism can exist in any place.
What was remarkable was the "ordinary men" - who both before and after the war never felt the urge to kill anyone, who would stand above the work force and kick down boulders and place bets on how many of the "workforce" they could knock down and how many they could kill as they struggled up the hill.
What was remarkable was not the maniac experiments of "the angel of death", but the seven tonnes of human hair that was collected, stored, found by the liberators.
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The Gospel of Thomas
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