Evil Men

280 Pages·2014·1.337 MB·English

by  James Dawes

Evil
Men
j a m e s d a w e s
Evil Men

Evil Men
James Dawes
Harvard University Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts / London, En gland / 2013
Copyright © 2013 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Dawes, James, 1969–
Evil men / James Dawes.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978- 0- 674- 07265- 7 (alk. paper)
1. Sino- Japanese War, 1937– 1945 — Atrocities — Psychological aspects.
2. Sino- Japanese War, 1937– 1945 — Personal narratives, Japa nese.
3. War criminals — Japan — Interviews. 4. War criminals — Psychology.
5. War crimes — Psychological aspects. I. Title.
DS777.533.A86D38 2013
940.54'050951 — dc23 2012038236
Book design by Dean Bornstein
For my family

CONTENTS
Preface xi
Evil Men 1
Notes 227
Ac know ledg ments 255
Index 257

Teachers in our high schools pound it into us that “historia” is “magistra
vitae.” But when history crashed down upon us in all its brutal glory, I
understood, in the very real glow of the fl ames above my home city, that
she was a strange teacher. She gave to the people who consciously sur-
vived her, and to all who followed her, more material for thought than all
the old chronicles put together. A dense and dark material. It will require
the work of many consciences to shed light on it.
— Zbigniew Herbert