The Differences in the Treatment of Prisoners of War by Britain, Germany and Japan

The difference in treatment of prisoners of war between England, Germany and Japan, according to international law, does not include that prisoners of war are defined as "people captured by belligerents when fighting in the army". In international law, "there are regulations on the treatment of combatants but only combatants are protected, which does not include civilians with hostility (according to international law they are war criminals), battle Military that does not obey ordinary members' request "1. A treaty has been established that establishes the right, the conditions under which prisoners can be accommodated.

War acts in Japan violate a series of Geneva treaties established at international conferences, but in the mid 1920's the Soviet prisoners during war treatment and the Holocaust itself shocked by the German Nazi regime themselves I joined the international law. Racial policy of genocide. Then, in calculating the reason why President Truman and his government officials regarded nuclear war as a positive concern rather than a terrible savage act, the cost of invasion of their own island in the summer of 1945 There was a problem indeed. . Regardless of the emotional reason that history can express them as "returning to Japan," invasion by the US Army and the Navy is a terrible price.

Millions of people were captured in various situations during World War II and treated from good to savage. The United States and the United Kingdom generally maintain the standards set by the Hague Convention and the Geneva Convention on the handling of extremely important wars. Germany deals better with British, French and American prisoners, but deals with genocide of the Soviet Union, Poland and other slavic prisoners. Of the approximately 5,700,000 Red Army soldiers occupied by the German army, only about 2 million survived the war; 2 million out of 3,800,000 Soviet troops captured during the 1941 German invasion More was allowed to starve to death. The Soviors kindly answered and deposited thousands of German prisoners in the labor camp in Graug, most of them died. The Japanese army solemnly handled British, American, Australian prisoners and only about 60% of these prisoners survived the war.