Don’t misunderstand this, though, because his documentation of the Japanese atrocities is vivid and detailed to a sickening degree. He even goes so far as to state “American attitudes towards the Japanese were not far distant from the Nazi view of the Jews.” Phew! He goes on to cite many disturbing anecdotes to justify this. Marines went into combat on Iwo Jima, according to Burleigh, with “Rodent Exterminator” stencilled on their helmets. The Japanese are a different matter and one comes to the conclusion that the war in the Far East became, in essence, a race war. He is unsparing in his analysis of the horrors that both Nazism and Communism spawned and also quite clear that the Allies (excluding the Soviet Union) morally deserved to win whereas the Axis, by their actions, deserved to lose.īurleigh makes it clear that Stalin probably caused the deliberate deaths of more Jews than Hitler but the German propensity for recording everything both on film as well as on paper has meant that we almost exclusively blame them not the Soviets. Master amazing tag-team fighting combos with allied resistance fighters.Michael Burleigh, Moral Combat – Good and Evil in World War II, Harper Collins, ISBN-13: 9780060580971, 672 pp., 2011, $29.99Īmericans like to think of the Second World War as “The Good War” and after reading Moral Combat they will find that Michael Burleigh also believes that description to be accurate.
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