Dissertation
An Assessment of Japanese Veterans' Recent Reflections on the Second World War's Darker Episodes
(2016)
Abstract
This thesis addresses the scholarly value of two oral history collections, "Japan at War" and "Railwaymen in the War" and how they relate to the existing body of literature on Japanese wartime conduct in World War II. The oral histories reveal a number of factors that contributed to the battlefield violence in Asia, but the biggest contribution these collections make to the historiography of Japanese war crimes and atrocities is the rare and fascinating personal perspectives of the perpetrators.
Disciplines
Publication Date
2016
Degree
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Field of study
History
Advisors
Jeremy Webster (Committee Chair) Miriam Shadis (Committee Member) Alec Holcombe (Advisor)
Citation Information
Eric Buckenmeyer. "An Assessment of Japanese Veterans' Recent Reflections on the Second World War's Darker Episodes" (2016) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/eric-buckenmeyer/2/
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