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World War II
U,S . arfi`lery, 1938
While Germany was creating panzer divisions <strong>and</strong> powerful howitzers, the U .S. Army still had horse-drawn cannon .
The Nazi Holocaust against the
Jews has left its indelible mark of
infamy in the histonbooks, but other
mass atrocities against other people,
both by the Nazis <strong>and</strong> especially by
the Japanese, ha%e tended
to fade from memory . Japan
has never publicly acknowledgcd
to irs own people,
<strong>and</strong> exhausted, but lighting for their ment . They bought time, not only for
homel<strong>and</strong>, shot do«n enough enemv Britain, but also for an almost totally
planes to keep Britain ali °e <strong>and</strong> to disarmed United States to begin to
force postponement of the Nazi inva- build its military forces .
sion that was expected at any mo- On the ground, the high price of
prewar pacifist rhetoric <strong>and</strong>
'_ policies continued to be
paid with the blood <strong>and</strong>
lives of British <strong>and</strong> Ameri-
or to the world, the
can ;ighting men, fighting
atrocities it committed all
overAsia, as post-Nazi German}'
did in the y,ears folfosring
the end of World
War II . This war was not
just another war . The Nazis,
with the Japanese not
far behind them, made it "a
revolution aeainst the moral
basis of civilization" <strong>and</strong>
a "re%olution against the
human soul," as Ti.ne mag
azinc put it .
A thous<strong>and</strong> voung men
in their fighter planes over
Engl<strong>and</strong>, outnumbered
Ki-,g _eopold III of Belglum
Hoping to placate Hitler, he refused staff talks with the Allies .
gallant but losing battles
around the N%orld against
better armed, better
equipped <strong>and</strong> batde-hardened
German <strong>and</strong> Japanese
military forces . Japan's
modern naw <strong>and</strong> wellarmed
troops swept down
across Southeast Asia with a
speed reminiscent of the
Nazi blitzkreig in Europe
Filipinos, Malays, Indonesians
<strong>and</strong> other Southeast
Asians fell victim to Japanese
conquest <strong>and</strong> atrocities,
~rhich rivaled those of
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