Monsters in Uniform

We've known this for years, but only now do they make it official: the ordinary Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front were as brutal as the SS
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2206982/I-liked-shoot--women-kids--kind-sport-Secret-Nazi-tapes-reveal-ordinary-German-soldiers-responsible-war-crimes-just-SS.html

It's psychological -  a uniform gves one a different image to hind behind; an exuse fro whatever happens when one is it; a feeling of belonging. It's easier to commit an atrocity when in uniform because it happens in a social role, that is symbolizzed by the uniform.

So monsters can kill babies while in uniform and kiss their own kids when without it - it's like a double life. So they like uniforms. Besides monsters are fragile people, usually with low self-respect that take their own anger on others - so they need the protection of the uniform and the reinforced feeling of belonging it gives.

Another evil bastard: Ratko Mladic who ordered the mass-execution of many Bosnian Muslims

Originally posted by Mountain Man Originally posted by Nick1986 Some Japanese still believe the Nanking Massacre was invented by Chinese propagandists. This sounds very similar to neo-fascist Holocaust denial http://www.pacificwar.org.au/WarCrimeIntro.html What do they think about the thousands of Korean women forced into military prostitution by the Japanese army?  The large population of post-war Japanese-Korean children is more than enough evidence about that issue, as is the apology ultimately demanded by the Korean nation itself a few years ago. The trouble with history is that it lingers on and and stains the honor of nations long after the atrocities are done.

They might respond with some insane conspiracy theory, like modern-day neo-Nazis claiming the Holocaust was committed by the allies

That site has a very large bias.

It was the Germans who first bombed civilians and provoked the Allies to respond in kind. Harris' firebombing (in his own words) deprived the Nazis of many future workers and soldiers

Originally posted by Nick1986 Originally posted by Centrix Vigilis Well there as good as any if ya believe them to be so.....depends on the viewpoint and yours is as good as anybody elses. Mine would include Stalin and varying Japanese of WW2. Pol Pot...Mao and a couple along those lines.   It's all context. Other countries' soldiers could also be cruel, but few (not even the Russians) matched the Germans and Japanese in senseless brutality

On the contrary, the Russians more than matched the brutality of the Germans and the Japanese, against their own people as well as their enemies.

Originally posted by Centrix Vigilis Well there as good as any if ya believe them to be so.....depends on the viewpoint and yours is as good as anybody elses. Mine would include Stalin and varying Japanese of WW2. Pol Pot...Mao and a couple along those lines.   It's all context.

Other countries' soldiers could also be cruel, but few (not even the Russians) matched the Germans and Japanese in senseless brutality

More eyewitness accounts of Japanese atrocities. How could they be so cruel?
http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~kunliu1/Nanjing_Massacre.html

Well there as good as any if ya believe them to be so.....depends on the viewpoint and yours is as good as anybody elses. Mine would include Stalin and varying Japanese of WW2. Pol Pot...Mao and a couple along those lines.