Compare And Contrast Of Police/Military Terror In Japan

The key trait of police/military terror in Japan led to the atrocity of the Rape of Nanking because the Japanese prevented the Chinese from any form of retaliation which enabled the Japanese to enforce their strength further. The trait of Police/military terror is shown when a government of a nation uses terror or violence to force obedience on people of another nation or supporters of a opposing government. The goal of governments following this trait is to protect their own interests but not the people they enforce order on interests. Notably, on December 1937, Japanese soldiers marched forward toward the Chinese city of Nanking to seize control. The Japanese government believed that “killing them would not only eliminate the food
From 1941 to 1945, Hitler initiated his final solution which was a policy involving the ultimate genocide of all Jews in treacherous Nazi concentration camps and labor camps. With this intention withheld in the German government , “... the government functioned through the beliefs such as the claimed superiority of the aryan race. [And the] need for lebensraum (“living space”).” (Lecture: Hitler’s Rise to Power/Mein Kampf) In this case, this is an example of ideology because it helped the Nazi party to gain control as they accused Jews, communists, liberals, and pacifists for starting the depression. The Nazis provided Germans with a reason to support them by promising them they would restore Germany's power and pride if they abide with their beliefs and sided with the Nazi’s. The Germans with the desire for security and firm leadership due to the decline of the economy of the Great Depression, complied with the Nazi’s request. As a result of this ideology, this led to the “Final Solution;” the physical annihilation of the jews in concentration camps and elsewhere. “Within the concentration camp system a killing system that had four gas chambers, and that, at the height of the deportations, could kill up to 6000 jews each day.” (www.ushmm.org) To explain, the key trait of ideology led to the atrocity described above because ingrained in the one-sided brain of the Nazi’s was the idea that they were racially superior to the Jews since they were of the aryan race. Consequently, permitting any dehumanizing acts committed to the Jews. The Nazi’s didn’t think of the Jewish people as humans and considered them as “animals,” thereupon Nazi’s all abided to eliminating the Jews in gruesome concentration camps without a doubt. Doing this act, the Nazi’s believed that they would achieve the goal of the Nazis which was to eliminate inferior races to the “aryan race” and restore Germany’s former glory.