Japanese death camps, the boiling centers of cruelty

The WW II story which is explained in the book of World War II is mostly filled with lot of suffering aspects. We found in the last blog that many used to die every day in the Japanese death camps dues to various reasons. And the kids were the watchers of these corpses. The survivors had by then been reduced to mere walking corpses. Few of them were aware by this time that the Japanese military was under orders of Emperor Hirohito to annihilate all the European prisoners especially those who are in Indonesian death camps like Ambarawa Camp Seven etc. He intended to follow the Nazi example of simply exterminating unwanted human beings.

When we think about World War II, is it any wonder that the news of the atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ghastly weapons as they were ever-so-welcome? The Allies had finally won this awfully cruel, bloody war! The prisoners in the Japanese concentration camps made a collective sigh of relief. Unless one has lived through their experiences, it is impossible to imagine what 3½ years of concentration-camp life was like. The Japanese death camps tore families apart, separated ten-year old kids from their mothers, whipped and tortured prisoners such as my sister Hortense, starved them en masse, and used their young daughters as ‘comfort women’ for their troops. The barbarous, unbridled cruelty was finally to come to a stop.

The cruelties towards the prisoners were so horrible. A great number of those interned had lost loved ones--husbands, wives, parents and children – in the World War II. They all had lost their homes, possessions, jobs, security... but finally, finally, they were safe … or so they thought. This WWII story is explained through a kid’s view on WWII by Mr. Ralph and Cathy Brink.