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As bad as the bombing was, permitting the atrocities to go on would have been worse.
Tuesday was "National Sorry Day" in Australia, but not in Japan, which, despite Emperor Akihito's state visit to Britain this week, could not bring itself to apologize unequivocally for the Japanese atrocities inflicted on British POWs in Burma during World War II.
Lorenz's thesis was greeted with accusations about attempts to whitewash human atrocities, all the more so given the Nobel Prize winner's native tongue, which was German.
When the Japanese troops finally arrived here in 1937, the “Rape of Nanking” was added to the catalogue of war’s atrocities.
Third, Finkelstein deduces from some Germans' disgust at the destruction of Jewish lives and property during Nazi-sponsored pogroms such as Kristallnacht that "Germans overwhelmingly condemned the Nazi anti-Semitic atrocities."