[KS] Koreanstudies Digest, Vol 128, Issue 6

[Bill Streifer]

Saying the Japanese forced Koreans to do the "dirty work" at camps is like saying the Nazis were "mean" to the Jews. Having studied the specific atrocities perpetrated by the Japanese on British POWs at a camp at Konan,  Korea during WWII (including beheadings, beatings and starvation), I can assure you that the treatment of Koreans by the Japanese was far worse than doing the dishes. By the way, I obtained my information from the children of former British and Australian POWs as well the official written statements of survivors. So before you begin thinking of adding the Japanese mistreatment of Koreans to school textbooks, you had better understand the full-extent and types of atrocities involved. 

- Bill Streifer
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