World War II

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This paper explains that racism played a pivotal role in the Pacific and Asian theaters of World War II: The Nazi regime wanted to eliminate "inferior races" in Europe, mainly the Jews and Americans learned to hate the Japanese even more than the Germans. The author points out that institutional racism in the U.S. kept black and Indian military personnel restricted to lower-ranking, menial positions; however, in some cases, they were permitted to fight in WWII along with white soldiers although most frequently they were in separate units. The paper relates that, in the Russo-German War, not only Hitler was playing out the Aryan "master race" strategy to conquer the vast Soviet empire, but also he wanted to seize the Soviet's enormous resources especially the Oral Mountain region.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Main Body of the Paper
Racism in America during WWII
Racism Vis-a-Vis WWII
The Rape of Nanking
The Russo-German War

From the Paper:

"While the Japanese slaughter of upwards of 300,000 Chinese in Nanking, China, in 1937 was as atrocious, savage and bloody as practically any event leading up to and during WWII, according to author Iris Chang, racism did not necessarily play a major role.
The real reason for the Japanese occupation of China, and slaughter of so many hundreds of thousands of Chinese, can be at least partially explained by the years of hate propaganda taught to Japanese children leading up to 1937. In the early 1930s, Chang explains on page 30, "...Teachers instilled in boys hatred and contempt for the Chinese people, preparing them psychologically for a future invasion of the Chinese mainland.""

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