Chapter 10 The Holocaust and the Japanese Atrocities

This chapter introduces the similarities and differences of the Holocaust and the Japanese atrocities by retelling the stories of two doctors who had failed to uphold their Hippocratic oaths. In a way these two men had more in common than one would normally think. They had different reactions to the realization of what they had done. The chapter also explains the abundance of sources on the Holocaust and the comparative lack of sources on the Japanese atrocities. While the German war crimes were known internationally, the Japanese were never prosecuted in the same way and this prevented Japanese society from publicly recognizing what they had done. Iris Chang, the author of the Rape of Nanking discusses how many Japanese were quick to find "errors" with her work and sought to discredit her and her categorization of what happened in China as a genocide.