Second World War Diary: September 1945

American writer Chalmers Ashby Johnson said:

To try to establish which of the two Axis aggressors, Germany or Japan, was the more brutal to the peoples they invaded would be pointless.

The Germans killed, among others, six million Jews and twenty million Russians. The Japanese exterminated thirty million Filipinos, Malays, Cambodians, Vietnamese, Indonesians and Burmese, and at least twenty-three million ethnic Chinese. Both nations plundered the countries they conquered and enslaved millio...