>>8296228>The Japanese were/are polite aswell and yet they fought till the last man.Japs didn't go as polite prisoners when they ran out of ammunition. They ran at you with shit swords. Wehrmacht dudes surrendered when their rifles got stuck and apologized for making US troops leave Hollywood to fight in a dirt field they didn't want to be in either. There's a difference.
It's not anecdotal. That's what all of the allies said about the Germans.
German leadership, officers and SS were sadists and would exact all sorts of fucked up perverse shit on captives, undesirables and the like in setting that were to their advantage but the average infantry were just normie sheltered kids who were kind of dumb patriots who thought Hitler would make Germany a glorious new mega state as long as they fell in line as drones. Japs were fanatics who genuinely believed if they didn't give their life to god on earth Hirohito that Japanese society would collapse and Japan would fall as a colony to the West.
The two aren't alike at all in motivation.
