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Canadian radio and television clips about WWII, the Nazis and war crimes
CBC online archive of Canadian radio and TV clips about the Second World War, the Nazis, German scientists, and war crimes. (archives.cbc.ca)
Documentary film: 442 - Live With Honor, Die With Dignity
"I was American. I wanted to join the military. They had reclassified my draft status from 1A to 4C - I became an enemy alien overnight. They took away all my civil liberties, I could not join ... the military until Feb of 1943 when they formed the 442nd," said Lawson Sakai. That thousands of Japanese Americans, imprisoned along with their families in internment camps, joined the U.S. Army is amazing. The 442nd Infantry Regiment - along with an offshoot, the 100th Infantry Battalion - is the most decorated unit in U.S. history. Using combat and newsreel footage, old photos, and interviews the film explores the legacy of the 442nd. (sfgate.com)
The Untold Battle Of Britain (Bloody Foreigners documentary series) - Polish fighter pilots in RAF
"Battle of Britain" is part of "bloody foreigners" series, which consists of documentary films covering the roles that foreign refugees had in helping Britain win during the various conflicts. In this episode, first-hand accounts show how the Polish played a big role in winning the Battle Of Britain. The Polish had to fight on two fronts: They were fighting to win the respect of the British pilots, who were not happy that the Polish were taken into the RAF. On September 7, 1940, when Luftwaffe blitz bombed London, Polish pilots downed 16 German aircraft in 15 minutes. A record unbeaten by any British RAF Squadron. (monstersandcritics.com)
Dear Uncle Adolf: Documentary film explores truckloads of fan letters sent to Hitler
"Dear Uncle Adolf" explores the fan letters Hitler got while in power. These notes, letters, and gifts - seized by the Soviets in 1945 - laid in Russian archives until they were discovered in 2007, forming the basis of a German book called "Letters to Hitler". Margarethe Wagner sent a pair of socks in 1938 after Hitler occupied the Sudetenland: "I knitted these for you as you freed us." Such women were under Gestapo monitoring as Hitler feared that his cult of personality could cause a disruption of home life. A special department in Munich and Berlin postal services dealt with the huge volume of fan letters sent to him every day. (telegraph.co.uk)
Documentary film Nazi Secret Weapons - Could Nazi secret weapons have changed the course of war?
A fleet of long-range "Amerikabombers" meant to destroy the New York City. A 1,000-ton tank, the largest ever designed. Fritz X: A radio-guided bomb with a success rate 80 times higher than that of its rivals. Those weapons in Adolf Hitler's fantasy arsenal were never fully utilized, but a National Geographic program explores what might have happened if they were. In "Nazi Secret Weapons," a group of military historians and aviation experts use blueprints and reconstructed Third Reich technology to figure out whether some of top-secret German WW2 armaments might have changed the course of war. (abcnews.go.com)
Hitler's American business partners documentary film on Youtube
WW2 documentary film "Hitler's American business partners" reveals the unholy alliance between Nazi Germany and some of the biggest corporations in the U.S. – companies, which were essential for Adolf Hitler to wage war. Henry Ford, the automobile manufacturer, James D Mooney, the General Motors manager and Tom Watson, the IBM boss, were all awarded the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, the Nazis' highest distinction for foreigners, for their services to the Third Reich. (youtube.com)
Student documentary film reveals how Soviet Union herded Ethnic Germans into death camps
Students at St. Louis Community College-Meramec (STLCC) have created an in-depth, feature-length documentary film "The Forgotten Genocide." The documentary film reveals the suffering of Ethnic Germans behind the Iron Curtain. At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union systematically drove Ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe into death camps for the purpose of extinction. By examining relics of the era and carrying out interviews with German survivors of a little-known historical atrocity, students are unfolding this forgotten story. (websterkirkwoodtimes.com)
Hitler's Children: Descendants of Göring, Eichmann speak out in documentary film
A small group of Germans are slowly coming to grips with the crimes of their fathers and grandfathers. After the end of WW2 the descendants of the Nazi leaders were left a legacy that links them to the horrors of the Third Reich. Adolf Hitler did not have children. Joseph and Magda Goebbels killed their 6 kids in Hitler's bunker in 1945. But what about the families of Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler and Adolf Eichmann? In "Hitler's Children" the Nazi descendants discuss the struggle between the admiration that children have toward their parents and their revulsion of their crimes. (ynetnews.com)
As Seen Through These Eyes - documentary film explores artists who painted for Nazi captors
The same talents that lead to work in the Warner Brothers and MGM animation studios saved Dina Gottliebova Babbit's life in Auschwitz. The Dr. Mengele spared the 19-year-old girl so she could be his personal artist, painting portraits for the Nazi guards and documenting his cruel experiments. For many young Jewish and Roma artists, keeping up their creative voices during the Nazi Holocaust was a means of spiritual and even physical survival, and their work now serves as solemn testimony to the crimes of the National Socialists in Hilary Helstein's documentary film "As Seen Through These Eyes". (theepochtimes.com)
Hitler`s Attack: How World War Two Began - German-Polish WWII documentary film
Deutsche Welle and TVP Polonia publicized the film "Hitler's Assault: How World War Two Began" - a groundbreaking German-Polish documentary about the beginning of World War II - with the premiere at the Polish Institute in Berlin. 70 years after the Nazi invasion of Poland, this documentary film was created by filmmakers from both countries to explore this dark chapter in German-Polish history from different perspectives. "70 years after the outbreak of the war... we must once again examine this period - but by way of facts and knowledge rather than prejudices and myths," said Agnieszka Romaszewska-Guzy. (pr-inside.com)
Documentary film Yasukuni explores Japan's view of World War II via Yasukuni shrine
Over 60 years after the end of World War Two, many Japanese still refuse to accept blame for the war or wartime actions. Imperialist aggression? No, says one man in "Yasukuni," this was about "the liberation of Asia!" There are millions of Chinese, Koreans and Filipinos who disagree. What about war crimes like comfort women, slave labor, medical experiments, death marches, the rape of Nanking? "A Chinese fabrication! The biggest lie in all of history" another answers. In some parts of Japan, it is still 1941, all day long. "Yasukuni" tries to draw them into the present, by focusing on the controversial Yasukuni shrine. (nj.com)
Documentary film series Hitler's Bodyguard - Over 40 plots to kill Hitler
It seems that everyone had a plot to kill Adolf Hitler, not just Claus von Stauffenberg. The 40 plots against Hitler's life, as well as details about his security squads (uncovered from SS archives), are revealed in a documentary series "Hitler`s Bodyguard". The 4-disc set contains 13 episodes. Here are covered not just familiar leading nazis such as Hermann Goering, Heinrich Himmler, Josef Goebbels and Albert Speer, but also men like Sepp Dietrich, Bruno Gesche, Otto Strasser, Ulrich Graf, Ernst Röhm, Julius Streicher, Reinhard Heydrich and Walter Stennes - not to forget Sturmabteilung (SA, or Brown Shirts), Schutzstaffel (SS) and Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo). (timesonline.co.uk)
Unsurrendered 100 Voices - Documentary explores the WWII Filipino Guerillas and Bolomen
Documentary film Unsurrendered 100 Voices - by Peter Parsons and Lucky Guillermo - explores the spontaneous movement that emerged all over the Philippines when the Japanese Imperial Army invaded the Philippines in 1941. This resistance did not wait for defeat and surrender. There were both Filipinos and Americans who went to the hills as early as December of 1941, when MacArthur declared Manila open city. Because Parsons is the son of Cmdr. Chick Parsons, who organized the submarines that supplied the guerrillas, this film also covers the importance of these submarines - but from the point of view and in the voices of the guerrilla speakers. (battlingbastardsbataan.com)
Documentary film focuses on Veit Harlan, director of Nazi propaganda film Jud Suess
A German film focuses on a man many would rather forget: Veit Harlan, director of Nazi propaganda film Jud Suess. "Harlan - Im Schatten von Jud Suess" (Harlan - In the Shadow of Jew Suess) concentrates on his most notorious work, retrospecting at his output through the eyes of the family he left behind. Director Felix Moeller hoped not only to examine the "taboo" subject of Harlan, but also how the family had dealt with the legacy of his work for Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime. "Jud Suess," which opened in 1940, was mandatory viewing for Heinrich Himmler's SS (Schutzstaffel) and was shown to local populations under Nazi occupation before mass deportations of Jews. (reuters.com)
WWII documentary film Lost in Libya explores the legendary Long Range Desert Group
WW2 documentary film Lost in Libya follows 3 amateur historians' travel to the heart of the Sahara to find the untouched site of a battle between the legendary Long Range Desert Group and the Italian forces. The film includes the only known historical footage of a group of specialist soldiers in action during the Second World War. The Long Range Desert Group was an elite force with special skills in navigation, desert warfare and survival. The group's main aim was to provide detailed maps and information about Nazi positions from deep behind enemy lines in the Libyan Desert without being detected. (stuff.co.nz)
Documentary film Swastika shown in Germany after 36 year ban, includes color footage filmed by Eva Braun
Philippe Mora's and Lutz Becker's 1973 WW2 documentary film about how Nazis penetrated German lives was banned from showing in Germany after fights erupted at its first screening in Cannes. Now it will premiere in Germany: at the Biberach Film Festival. Mora discovered Eva Braun's home movies - rare color footage filmed by Adolf Hitler's mistress Eva Braun - in the National Archives in 1972, and combining it with other Nazi-era footage by the Nazi Party, created a film that reveals how Hitler seized the imagination of a state. "The film was made to show that Hitler was a human being. If we don't recognize that fact, we won't see the next monster coming." (wehonews.com)
Documentary: Women in The Military: Willing, Able, and Essential
Since America's founding, women have been driven by patriotic zeal to serve their country. From uncommon soldiers who disguised themselves to saw combat and nurses that faced terrible injures to those who wear the uniform in battle zones today, women have contributed to American military might. "Women in The Military: Willing, Able, and Essential" is their story. Massive changes in women's military contributions took place during World War II as increased recruitment and expanded opportunities allowed 400,000 to serve in almost all noncombat positions. (paveteransmuseum.org)
Toyo's Camera : Japanese American History during World War II (Article no longer available from the original source)
Photographer Toyo Miyatake, who was sent to an internment camp in California during the Second World War, documented his time there using a makeshift camera. Now his photographs are featured in a documentary film about life in the camps and racism in the United States. "Toyo's Camera - Japanese American History during WWII" was premiered at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Meguro Ward. Using a lens Miyatake hid in his pocket and pipes found at Manzanar camp, he put together a camera with the help of other Japanese-Americans. He took about 1500 pictures with his "spy camera" before his release in November 1945. (yomiuri.co.jp)
Rzhev: Marshal Zhukov's Unknown Battle - WW2 documentary film upsets Russians
"Rzhev: Marshal Zhukov's Unknown Battle" is the sort of film that would have been praised in the West. But not in Russia, where its presenter Alexei Pivovarov is a traitor. 1.5 million people died during the Rzhev campaign 1942-1943, mostly Russians. This huge death toll was result of Josef Stalin's disregard for his own men and of the screwups of Soviet generals. But Russians know little of the Rzhev battles because they have been airbrushed from history. Even Georgy Zhukov, who led the Rzhev campaigns, scarcely talks about them in his memoirs. In the film one German veteran expressed his horror at how the Soviet soldiers were treated as "cannon fodder". (historynet.com)
The Inheritance of War: WW2 documentary film tells of the American POWs (Article no longer available from the original source)
The Inheritance of War vividly depicts the struggles of a certain class of World War II prisoners of war - those who fought for the U.S. on the Philippines. "Inheritance" hits home with resounding effect as it tells the sobering story of American soldiers who became POWs on April 9, 1942, when the America surrendered the Philippines to Japan. Those soldiers who survived the Bataan Death March and remained alive for the duration of the war were under Japanese control for over 40 months. Director Ashley Karras combines National Archives war footage with interviews of POWs to reveal the grim realities and brutality of life as POWs under Japanese control. (mormontimes.com)
Behind Closed Doors - Stalin, the Nazis and the West [documentary]
Historian Laurence Rees's series reveals the truth about Stalin's wartime alliances. When do you think WWII ended? In 1945? If you believe that the end of the war was supposed to have brought freedom to the countries, then for millions of people the war did not end until the fall of Communism. In 1945 the people of Poland, of the Baltic States and of a number of other countries swapped the rule of one tyrant, Adolf Hitler, for another, Joseph Stalin. To demonstrate this bitter reality the presidents of Estonia and Lithuania refused to visit Moscow in 2005 to take part in "celebrations" marking the 60th anniversary of the "end of the war" in Europe. (telegraph.co.uk)
Original Patriots: Northern California Indian Veterans of World War II
KEET-TV will broadcast "Original Patriots: Northern California Indian Veterans of WWII" on Nov. 9 and Nov. 11 to mark Veterans Day. When America joined the Allies in 1941, a generation of Native American people from California joined the fight. They served in spite of the fact that many were not born as citizens of the United States. Native Americans were not given U.S. citizenship until 1924. Although their stories are not often told, they are part of "The Greatest Generation.` In this documentary film Lee Hover, Frank Richards, and Wally Scott recount their struggle at Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima and D-Day, and share their views on the costs of war. (humboldtbeacon.com)
Last Flight Home documentary film - Recovering World War II remains
The BentProp Project is a team of volunteers committed to recovering the remains of WWII airmen killed in action in the South Pacific nation of Palau. Now their work has been packaged for the first time in a film. "Last Flight Home," made by two members of the BentProp team, is a look at these adventurers as they search the waters and jungles for the 200 planes shot down by the Japanese in 1944. Today Palau is a tourist destination, but the remote islands are also a battleground mostly forgotten by military history. Corsairs, Hellcats, TBF Avengers and B-24 Liberators litter the jungle and shallow waters around the islands. (post-gazette.com)
Weird Weapons: The Axis -- WWII documentary
1939-1945 the world was locked in a fierce military struggle. When the smoke of World War Two cleared, off-the-wall stories of extraordinary armaments began to emerge. This WWII documentary reveals far fetched weaponry dreamed up by Allied and Axis scientists. From a battleship made of ice, to a fleet of pigeon-guided missiles, film examines the weird weapons of World War II. In an even stranger attempt at animal-based warfare, the "bat bomb" (to be released over Japanese industrial targets) - a project endorsed by Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt – was orchestrated by an American dentist. (thehistorychannel.co.uk)
P38 pilots crashes in jungle among headhunters - Documentary Injury Slight
When Colonel Charles Sullivan's P-38 Lighting was downed in the jungles of Papua, New Guinea, the fighter pilot did not know if he would ever see his home again. Nor did he know that his adventures would catch the attention of independent filmmaker Josh Baxter. Sullivan survived for 30 days in the jungle, only with the few resources he was able to get from his wrecked plane and a native New Guinea tribe that took him in. He soon found out that the natives he bonded with were headhunters. After a standoff with the natives, Sullivan was assaulted and had to shoot his way out of the village and continue his journey as a hunted man. (injuryslight.com)
The Soviet Story documentary - Similarity of Nazi and Soviet systems
The aim of The Soviet Story is to show the similarity of the Nazi and Soviet systems. The Marxist dream of the "new man" mirrored the Nazi idea of racial superiority. The Nazis killed on racial grounds, while the Soviets focused on class. One sequence shows pairs of posters: muscular workers support the party, blonde little girls... Without the swastika or hammer and sickle, it would be hard to know which is which. The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact: Soviet radio guided Luftwaffe bombers in their attacks on Poland. A Soviet naval base aided the Nazi attack on Norway. The Soviet secret police trained the Gestapo. (charter97)
Documentary films explore life under Nazi Germany and Soviet Union
The latest from director Bruno Monsaingeon are 2 hour-long films on 20th-century Russian music: "The Red Baton: Scenes of Musical Life in Stalinist Russia" and "Gennadi Rozhdestvensky: Conductor or Conjurer?" "The Red Baton" explores the psychic torture artists suffered in a society so insane that Rozhdestvensky, looking back, doesn't know whether to laugh or cry. --- Enrique Sanchez Lansch's well researched film "The Reichsorchester: The Berlin Philharmonic and the Third Reich" reveals the Berlin Philharmonic's history as both a Nazi propaganda tool and a morale booster for German citizens. (nj)
Japanese-American Forced Labor on an American Indian Reservation
For Japanese-Americans, Feb. 19 marks the Day of Remembrance. That's the day in 1942 when Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 and started the forced removal and imprisonment of 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry: 60% of whom were American citizens. Military officials regarded anyone of Japanese descent to be a potential spy. Documentary "Passing Poston: An American Story" reveals a little-known secret about the Poston internment camp. It was built on the Colorado River Indian Reservation for a particular reason: Detainees were brought to the remote location to provide forced labor for the American government. (abcnews)
The Ants (Ari no Heitai) - Japanese Imperial soldier left in China after WW2
The Ants (Ari no Heitai) is a documentary film about Japanese troops left in China after World War 2. The film follows Waichai Okumura, a former Imperial soldier who battled against the communists in China's civil war. The men followed orders and fought like worker ants, "for the resurgence of Japanese imperialism." When he was able to travel back to Japan 9 years after WW2 had ended, Okumura was astonished to find his government had disowned these soldiers. The men were labeled as mercenaries and denied their pensions; A handful of soldiers went after the Japanese authorities to tell the truth about why the men had been fighting. (canoe)
Rare World War II footage screened at Mumbai fest
8 documentaries on World War II screened at the Mumbai Film Festival (MIFF) have disclosed many unknown details about the Indian armed forces' contribution to the Allied war against the Axis forces. The films included "Battle of Britain", "Battle of Russia", "Cameraman At War", "Delhi Viceroy Parade", "Divide and Conquer", "Invincible", "Prelude to War" and "Town Meeting of the World" - produced by the Films Division of the govt of India. "When all the warring forces got their manpower through conscription, only Indian Army comprised voluntary soldiers." Winston Churchill remarked: "Indian armed forces was the largest voluntary army in history". (nowrunning)
Hitler's Favourite Royal - The story of Prince Charles Edward
Where does sensitive covering of a tricky subject end and unmerited sympathy begin? Take the story of Prince Charles Edward: Born in 1884 he was Queen Victoria`s youngest grandchild, first cousin of a king, a kaiser and a tsar, yet safely at the back of the line of succession so destined for a life of privilege as a minor member of the British Royal Family. Yet he became a senior German general in World War I and later one of Adolf Hitler`s confidants and champions. What cannot be interpreted as tragic was Charles Edward`s embracing of Nazism. As one of the first of the old elite to endorse Hitler he may well have been "instrumental" in his rise to power. (telegraph)
WWII documentary: My Opposition: The Diaries of Friedrich Kellner
Documentary "My Opposition: The Diaries of Friedrich Kellner" is about the diary of a German civilian, chronicling nation's descent into the madness of Nazism. Kellner was an administrator in the German justice system when he began recording a secret diary after Adolf Hitler's troops stormed into Poland in 1939. "My first great relief was to find he hadn't been a Nazi, that he'd opposed them in the best way he could," said His American grandson Scott Kellner, who was given the 860-page diaryin 1968. "He told me at that time what he witnessed in Germany in the 1930s and '40s was happening again with the totalitarian regime of the Soviet Union." (reginaleaderpost)
Battles of Belief in World War II - The story of American radio warfare
It's easy to look back on the Seoncd World War and get the impression that America was united in fighting "The Good War." Battles of Belief, a documentary from American RadioWorks, tells 2 little-known stories that reveal the struggle for hearts and minds in wartime. Using rare archival recordings and interviews with former spies, the program tells the story of radio warfare. [real-audio] (minnesota.publicradio)
Documentary: My Enemy's Enemy - The West and Klaus Barbie
"My Enemy's Enemy" by Kevin Macdonald, is a history lesson detailing the disturbing record of complicity between notorious war criminals, specifically the Butcher of Lyon: Klaus Barbie, and the West after the Second World War. Although he was held accountable for the murder of French Resistance leader Jean Moulin, as well as for the deaths of 44 children, the U.S. found his communist-hunting tactics to be quite useful during the Cold War. Klaus Barbie would later "disappear" to Bolivia (with the help of the Catholic Church), where he would become a powerful businessman and enlist the help of some of his old Nazi brethren in a bid to build a Fourth Reich in the Andes. (empiremovies.com)
Documentary "Most Honorable Son" Japanese-American combat vet
"I had to fight like hell just for the right to fight for my own country," says WWII combat veteran Ben Kuroki, who as a Japanese-American faced red tape in his bid to be an Army Air Corps gunner. He was one of only a handful of Nisei to see air combat and the only one to see such duty over mainland Japan. Seeing the PR windfall of a Japanese-American combat hero the war department put him on the public speaking circuit. By parading him around it was hoped his example would reverse racism and boost Nisei recruits. The mere fact he survived Ploesti, a costly low altitude bombing raid made at oil refineries, is a story in itself. (lustron)
Documentary explores the Nazis` looting, pillaging of art and architecture
Most WWII documentaries focus on the loss of life that occurred during Adolf Hitler`s regime. "The Rape of Europa" is not that type of history film. It deals more with property than people, as it explores the Nazis` systematic looting of priceless works of art and architecture during World War II. Combining interviews with both archival and contemporary footage, the film presents the tale of the terrors via the fresh perspective of how Nazi regime wreaked havoc on art treasures in the many countries Wehrmacht conquered, as well as the destruction done to works of art and architecture during both the Allied and Axis bombings. (variety.com)
Documentary Hitler's Canadians: Nazi escape from Canada to U.S.
Escape from Canada to the neutral ground of the US was the goal of many imprisoned Nazis during the early years of World War II. A total of 40,000 captured Nazis were dumped into Canadian POW camps, where it was hoped they would be too far away from Europe to cause any real trouble. The presence of Nazis on Canadian soil didn't get a lot of publicity, since the govt didn't want to cause a panic. "But once they started escaping, that became a real scandal. ... All the prisoners were perceived as Nazis, and not all of them were, necessarily. But there were some pretty tough characters running around loose. In war time that was a real fear." (canoe)
Two Russian documentaries about the horrors of World War II (Article no longer available from the original source)
Gerhard M. was an amateur photographer - It helped him document his daily life in Nazi Germany and his activities on the Russian front as a member of Nazis` Field Order police unit. "Amateur Photographer" recounts his story in his own words (diaries found in the KGB archives) and images. He seems to be a true believer, a Hitler Youth graduate who parrots the Nazi line when writing his "fighting for freedom." --- Sergei Loznitsa uses equally striking film footage for his film "Blockade." Drawing on the only extant movies of the 900-day siege of Leningrad, 3 hours of newsreels shot during Sept 1941 and Jan 1944, he constructs a narrative of a city fighting for its life. (tjw)
My Dad, The War Criminal - documentary
Hanns Ludin isn`t much more than a footnote in the histories of the Shoah. He is mentioned only once in William Shirer`s "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich," in connection with his being thrown out of the Wehrmacht for supporting Hitler in 1930; twice in Hans Hohne`s history of the SS for his ability to survive as an SA officer after the "Night of the Long Knives". He may be a minor Nazi functionary, albeit a doggedly loyal one, but he was important enough for the Czechs to have tried, and hanged in 1947. In "Two or Three Things I Know About Him," Malte Ludin explores his father`s role in horrors of WW2. (nypost)
Professor spent 3 years as an Waffen-SS soldier - documentary
Adalbert Lallier, Concordia professor, is haunted by his past: three years spent as an Waffen-SS soldier during which he witnessed the murder of seven persons by his superior officer. The documentary film Once a Nazi... follows Lallier after he voluntarily comes forward, to publicly own up to his Nazi past and to travel to Germany to testify in the last Nazi war crimes tribunal. Although 50 witnesses were called in, his testimony was the key to the conviction of his SS lieutenant, Julius Viel. It also marked the first time a Waffen-SS man ever turned against his superior in a civil court. (hour)
Death in the Bunker: The True Story of Hitler's Downfall
Adolf Hitler spent the last ten days of his life in a bunker deep under the Chancellery of the Third Reich. Here we are given the story via archival footage as well as extensive interviews with Traudl Junge, Hitler's secretary to whom he dictated his will; Rochus Misch, Hitler's bodyguard and courier; Armin D. Lehmann, Hitler's courier responsible for carrying orders from the Führerbunker; Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, tank commander and adjutant to two of Hitler's generals. There is also much film here of Hitler himself, shown with his generals, giving praise to members of the HitlerJugend, and Eva Braun. (-)
Documentary about soldier of the Imperial Japanese Army (Article no longer available from the original source)
Last year, Waichi Okumura visited China for the first time in 61 years. During World War II, Okumura, a former soldier of the Imperial Japanese Army, was stationed there and killed his first man: In 1945 an officer told novice soldiers to bayonet tied farmers. He went to the spot where he killed the man and burned incense sticks for him. While there two local man told him that, the japanese guards stopped fighting after Chinese communist troops attacked. On hearing this, the tone of Okumura's voice changed, although he was being filmed. ...Later he realized what he had been saying - horrified at the thought that he might have changed back into a Japanese soldier. (yomiuri)
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