Why do US schools focus so much on the Holocaust but never go specfic about Japanese atrocities such as Unit 731?

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The Holocaust, the Diary of Anne Frank, Schindler's List, etc. Everything is focused on Germany when it wasn't Germany that sneak attacked the US at Pearl Harbor.

When it comes to Asian theater of the war, all they ever teach (unless taking a specific Japanese history course in college or learning on my own) is the attack on Pearl Harbor, a very brief statement of how Japanese army were invading Manchuria, us placing oil embargo and the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki but it doesn't go more depth than that. Why such differences? Why that incomplete version?

Yet they never really go deeper into the Japanese atrocities nor even show pictures of how they treated the POW (like they do about the concentration camps) such as babies on bayonets, Unit 731, Raping of Nanking, etc.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Simple. Germany and Japan were aggressors who did horrible things out of pure selfishness and ambition. The US on the other hand was trying to protect against those aggressors. In retrospect, when hindsight is 20/20, it's easy to criticize what the US did during those terrible atrocities committed by Germany and Japan, but the simple fact is the aggressors were the problem, not the protectors.

glennos89 · Accepted Answer

Nothing was as unsettling as the Holocaust. Hitler builded massive factories just for genocide.  I wonder why the us government bought some many guillotines and coffins lately 🤔

CupcakeTheDestroyer · Accepted Answer

It’s almost like American schools don’t want American children to realize they were just as bad as the “bad guys” (sarcasm)

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

America is almost been about making people as uneducated as possible. Now with Trump is in charge, it is even more so.

DryGermanGuy · Answer

In the American school education it's mostly a mixture of reaching the low hanging fruit and setting the lowest common denominator. For real knowledge you have to go to university.

Anonymous · Answer

the atrocities committed by Josef Stalin's Soviet Union and Mao Zedong's China were far worse and even today there's ethnic genocide and forced organ harvesting in these communist countries

Anonymous · Answer

The holocaust happened at a time when war had not been declared.

EmmiL · Answer

They were minor compared to the Holocaust. 6 million died including children in most brutal ways possible.

QuestionObsession · Answer

Simple answer = USA is run by the Zionist Jews. And they will harp on their Holocaust till Hitler comes back from the dead.

In_Trance · Answer

Because this is the narrative that Israel wants taught in areas of the world that it occupies

Agape93 · Answer

Too many atrocities from too many people to cover.

RedInnocent69 · Answer

Because nuking a problem isn’t as heroic

Why do US schools focus so much on the Holocaust but never go specfic about Japanese atrocities such as Unit 731?

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