When most Americans think of Germany, they think of sports cars built for highways, sauerkraut, Adolf Hitler, and the Holocaust. Compared to Germany, when most Americans think of Japan, they think of sushi, Godzilla movies, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. World War II was such an important event in history that almost 70 years after its end, today's younger generations often associate former Axis-controlled countries with the war. People around the world are filled with disgust and immense hatred when they hear the name Hitler, mainly because of his leadership during the Holocaust; which was the discriminatory mass genocide of 11 to 17 million people, the vast majority of whom were European Jews. Hirohito, former emperor of Japan, should ring the same bell with people when they hear his name because Japan carried out the genocide of Chinese civilians and soldiers during World War II. The Japanese attack on the Chinese city of Nanking was one of the most atrocious events in history. This event has been named both the Nanking Massacre and the Rape of Nanking. The techniques of torture and violence used by the Japanese military on Chinese civilians and soldiers, including their dehumanization, drug abuse, and other evil and violent acts, are among the crudest methods ever recorded to which only Japanese soldiers sadists could think. . The events committed by the Japanese army in Nanking are just as repulsive as the acts committed by Nazi Germany and are expected to become a major topic of World War II in the future, despite the lack of light shed on this subject in the passed for various reasons. .Many Americans feel sympathy for the Japanese people, even though... middle of paper ...... they are ordinary people, fearing reprisals from the Japanese underground they believed still existed. .. (Yamamoto p. 190).” Even after the war, the Chinese were so traumatized by these dastardly acts that they still feared that the Japanese army would return again to treat them like cattle. Works Cited Sheridan, Michael. “Japan’s Black War Crimes Museum.” The Sunday Times. The Sunday Times, July 31, 2005. Web. July 31, 2005. Chang, Iris. The Rape of Nanking: the forgotten Holocaust of the Second World War. New York: BasicBooks, 1997. Print. The Rape of Nanking. Real. Sammy Jackson. A&E Television Networks, 2002. DVD. Rabe, John. The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe. Edited by Erwin Wickert. Translated by John E. Woods. New York: Alfred A. Knope, 1998. Yamamoto, Masahiro. Nanking: Anatomy of an Atrocity. London: Praeger, 2000. Print.