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I think bad things happened at the hands of the Japanese in Nanjing. However, the numbers have been *massively* inflated by the CCP. Meanwhile, the CCP has been responsible for more dead Chinese than the Japanese, but they downplay that entirely.

I do think there is a lot of substance to the claims of Japan's maltreatment of POWs. The way they treated US, British, Australian and other POWs was awful. One can put it down to a difference in culture, but it was still brutal.

Our values of that of our people, Aryans are a special breed, It’s not religion that caused that.

The issue for me is that it all inherently relies on eyewitness testimony. The same primary issue that every holocaust narrative has. Eyewitness testimonies are extremely unreliable especially when factoring in group trauma (in the case of Nanjing, an entire war), and even moreso if the people involved have a detailed history of just straight up lying (ahem, Chinese and jews). Everyone knows today that the Chinese lie out of their ass, it's practically common knowledge, but they were somehow magically different in ww2? They changed that much in 80 years?

So we are forced to take claims of the Japanese launching infants in the air and using them as bayonet practice at face value. Just like nazi electric swimming pools. Despite the fact that there is absolutely no proof that this happened at all besides eyewitness testimony.

Furthermore I'd also like to note that the Japanese army also had a decent sized contingency of white Russian orthodox soldiers whose fathers, or them, came to Japan after the bolshevik revolution. They even had priests with their units: https://www.chinaww2.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/russ3.jpg

Why would a priest in his right mind give such a uniquely horrible army his blessing? Why would so many people of christian aryan spirit fight for the Japanese who apparently ate babies?
 
In regards to unit 731, okay they did some fucked shit actually, not gonna hold you there. But how bad was it... *actually*? Most of the current knowledge about the unit is based in pretty sketchy books that were written in japan from the 50s to the 80s, books that a lot of people at the time raised questions about. I've no doubt that unit 731 were bad people, but I doubt that they were much worse than some of the people that the germans made friends with, or divisions that they created themselves. The cossack division of the wehrmacht, dirlewanger brigade, the chetniks, and Ustaše were, well, really fucking brutal too. But morals go out the window as a war drags on invariably, even for a noble people, it's practically unavoidable.

And they were probably doing far less fucked shit than whatever the US government is doing right now that we don't even know about.

Of course they committed massacres. It was an enormous army conquering one city. There wasnt a single army in ww2 that was clean of massacres. The only thing it would take for a massacre to occur is a few bad people.

But Rabe never mentioned the Japanese, you know, being *cartoonishly* evil either.