So, can someone explain why it is that even though many armies tried to instill in a 'fight to the last bullet and last man' attitude in their soldiers, only the Imperial Japanese really followed that through to it's autistic conclusion.
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>even though many armies tried to instill in a 'fight to the last bullet and last man' attitude in their soldiers
This is incorrect.
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>, only the Imperial Japanese really followed that through to it's autistic conclusion.
Yeah they didn't surrender when nukes dropped did they?
Most people don't want to get gunned down doing a bayonet charge
This isn't true?
I meant how Japanese troops rarely surrender when fighting, even when put into ridiculous situations, like during the battle of Saipan.
Out of 60,000 men that served in the 1st SS less than 1,000 were left to surrender at the end. The 12th SS fought from 15,000 to less than 200 before leaving Normandy. The 11th SS was literally destroyed to the last by the end of the war. Many divisions have similar stories.
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>I meant how Japanese
Fair enough.
>context matters user
>Out of 60,000 men that served in the 1st SS less than 1,000 were left to surrender at the end. The 12th SS fought from 15,000 to less than 200 before leaving Normandy. The 11th SS was literally destroyed to the last by the end of the war. Many divisions have similar stories.
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Just because you "surrender" doesn't mean you stop fighting.
Your bad at bait
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National socialism is a fucking waste of human lives.
agreed, but who really cares about goy lives anyway kek
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well yeah, the cannibalism in Waffen SS units was notoriously common.
Those remaining 1,000 were massive units by the end, and apparently inspired many of the later ultra-heavy tank designs the nazis tried to build.
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Infantry training was once so poor only like 10% of troops would shoot to kill on contact with the enemy and one of the only ways for commanders to get their men to fight was to convince or put them in immediate life threatening scenarios.
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they didn't
it took TWO nukes for them to surrender
>Facts and logic
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>Haha very mature and funny Jow Forums laughing at rape jokes, your moms and sisters must be so proud
>implying I wasn't birthed from a gay man's anus
The paradigm shift is here goy
(you)
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It looks like reddit, but it feels like an user baiting as reddit. Ah, whatever.
>what are bayonets
They're only for us jews, silly goy. Now gib your election goyim-sama
They didn't start their soldiers. They starting with their children. Then the lessons those children learned in youth were expanded upon when they entered the military.
OP seems to have forgotten that the British empire was a thing
What was so good about the British Empire?
They also did shit like fill kettles with gunpowder.
The value of life and your perception of armed conflict change from before to during a war. `Never surrender' becomes a trite and naive idea when you watch so many talented, good, young men slaughtered endlessly for seemingly nothing. You begin to resent war and your government which makes decisions to fruitlessly sacrifice so many men. War becomes less about your country and more about keeping your friends alive. If you're an officer you begin to place value on the people under your command and can't morally justify letting them die in the face of impossible odds. At least if they're taken as prisoners they might see their families again.
You mean soulless/robots, yes.
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Probably because they felt they had nothing to lose and everything to gain. Honor, spirituality, and muh ancestors played a big role as well. Though mostly christians, westerners have more concerning and conflicting thoughts when it comes to the afterlife, life and death, individuality, etc...
For the Japanese, there was no individual, only the group. The group's survival depended on the suspension of the idea of being an individual. All armies practice this to some extent, but the Japanese really had it down. This is just my understanding of how their culture and training was at the time, historical anons feel free to correct me.