Saving Civilians
Honor holds a special place within Japanese culture, which excludes surrender as an option. Government propaganda also painted American soldiers as rapists and murderers, further fanning the flames of fear among the populace. Pictured is a U.S. soldier offering a hand to a woman and her child as they come out from hiding.
Saving Civilians
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Reversing The Roles
Despite efforts to hide the truth of what they’d done, the Nazis were unable to keep the Allied forces from discovering the concentration camps. With the writing on the wall, many Nazi officers attempted to flee. After the camps were liberated, Nazis found themselves on the other end of the rifles, like in this picture of a Holocaust survivor here keeping watch over a prisoner of war.
Reversing The Roles
