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Wow. Very insightful, 'scientists' of Imperial Japan. (media.piefed.social)
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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Nazis did similar stuff (though AFAIK not quite at the same scale), and it was equally worthless.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I refer you to my previous comment: https://mander.xyz/comment/24962314

[–] madde@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

You would be interested as well I guess to hear about John Rabe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rabe

Another Nazi who actually appealed to Hitler to stop a Japanese genocide on the Chinese.