POWs mistreatment
“Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen.” -Louie Zamperini
In this essay we will talk about how brutal and horrific the treatment of the prisoners of war. They were mistreated horribly. I will talk about their nationality, how they were murdered, how they were forced to do hard labor, how the japanese tried to break the prisoners and tried to take their dignity away from them.
“A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain.”- Louie Zamperini. Their nationality was barbaric. The POWS were taken by the Japanese army. Very few POWS survived, there were so many of them. Over 130,000 Western POWs were taken in the months immediately following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (December 1941). The Japanese took 50,000 Australians and New Zealanders at Singapore, 52,000 Dutch and British in Java, and 25,000 Americans in the Philippines. Other POWs included Indians serving with the British and Filipinos serving with the Americans. …show more content…
Some POWs were shot at the end of the War to prevent them from saying anything about their mistreatment.Some POWs were used as slave laborers, working in brutal conditions. Some were even used for medical experiments, including live vivisections and assessments of biological weapons. They were starved, brutalized, and used for forced labor. The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors
“Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen.” -Louie Zamperini
In this essay we will talk about how brutal and horrific the treatment of the prisoners of war. They were mistreated horribly. I will talk about their nationality, how they were murdered, how they were forced to do hard labor, how the japanese tried to break the prisoners and tried to take their dignity away from them.
“A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain.”- Louie Zamperini. Their nationality was barbaric. The POWS were taken by the Japanese army. Very few POWS survived, there were so many of them. Over 130,000 Western POWs were taken in the months immediately following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (December 1941). The Japanese took 50,000 Australians and New Zealanders at Singapore, 52,000 Dutch and British in Java, and 25,000 Americans in the Philippines. Other POWs included Indians serving with the British and Filipinos serving with the Americans. …show more content…
Some POWs were shot at the end of the War to prevent them from saying anything about their mistreatment.Some POWs were used as slave laborers, working in brutal conditions. Some were even used for medical experiments, including live vivisections and assessments of biological weapons. They were starved, brutalized, and used for forced labor. The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors