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Author Felton, Mark, author.

Title Japan's gestapo : murder, mayhem and torture in wartime Asia / by Mark Felton
Published Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (221 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents Organ of terror -- Slaves for the Emperor -- Bridge house -- Resistance is futile -- Double tenth -- Sex slaves -- Slaughter iof the innocents -- Asian Auschwitz -- The bomber boys -- Kempeitai kamikazes -- Leave no survivors -- End game -- Bearing the unbearable
Summary "This book reveals the extent of the truly shocking activities of the Kempetai, Japan's feared military and secret police." "The book opens by explaining the origins, organisation and roles of the Kempetai apparatus, which exercised virtually unlimited power throughout the Japanese Empire. The author reveals their criminal and collaborationist networks, which extorted huge sums of money from hapless citizens and businesses. They ran the Allied POW gulag system which treated captives with merciless and murderous brutality. Other Kempeitai activities included biological and chemical experiments on live subjects, the Maruta vivisection campaign and widespread slave labor, including the so-called "Comfort Women," drawn from all races"--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Japan. Rikugun -- Military police -- History
SUBJECT Japan. Rikugun fast
Japan. Rikugun -- Military police. nli
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Asia
War crimes -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
Atrocities
Military police
War crimes
Kempei
Kriegsverbrechen
World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Japan.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Asia.
War crimes -- History -- 20th century.
Japan.
World War II.
Military police.
Intelligence agencies.
War crimes.
Crimes against humanity.
Andra världskriget 1939-1945 -- grymheter -- Asien.
Krigsförbrytelser -- historia -- Asien -- 1939-1945 (andra världskriget)
Militärpoliser -- historia -- Japan -- 1939-1945 (andra världskriget)
Asia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781844684441
184468444X
9781783039845
1783039841