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Certain units of the Japanese Army conducted a lot of inhumane scientific experiments on human subjects they racially discriminated against during WWII, and the evidence collected was retained by the USA.
the us thought they were getting a deal from the japanese when they conducting biological experiments on chinese people, but they were getting all fluff results
I want to note that none of this was valid science, the results were worthless because they prioritized torture and didn't document their "experiments" and their results properly. Same for medical Nazi "research".
Though it's true that you don't need religion to do evil acts.
Maybe the Japanese Empire didn't, but the Nazis were explicitly Christian.
Eh, publicly Christian 100%, but there were plenty of anti-Christian views from Goebbels, and then there's the Occultism in Nazism as well.
That being said, Positive Christianity was 100% a tool to manipulate the people into doing the State's will, trying to eject Catholicism from Germany.
Not really. They were certainly white supremacists and hated Jews, but Christianity didn't really play a big role in their ideology. They spent a lot more time supressing local churches than going on about how christian they are, and many of them were very interested in pagan religions.
This is revisionist bullshit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Nazi_Germany
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_and_Nazi_Germany#Accommodation_to_Nazism
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-role-of-clergy-and-church-leaders
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-german-churches-and-the-nazi-state