Hitler in Asia is just not seen in the same way
Of course in Europe, that memory is still raw. But go to Asia and ask people about him, and they see him as a remote figure, something between a great general who conquered Europe and yet another dictator who did something bad they don't quite know about.
And why not? Their populations were not slaughtered by his armies.
Quite the opposite: how many know in the West that the head of the Nazi Party in China, like Schindler, directly helped save 200000 lives. While Western democracies were conveniently looking the other way at the time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rabe
Conversely, I'm sure that they could give you the names of Japanese generals they consider as monsters, but you've never heard about.
Different histories, different viewpoints, maybe it's time to realize that Godwin's law is not quite universal.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
