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General Tojo Part 2: Terror in China

Real Dictators

CHAPTER

The Kempei Tai: The Most Sadistic, Paramilitary Enforcer in Human History

The Kempei Tai were probably the most paranoid military unit that ever existed. They gain a horrendous reputation for brutality because their standard operating procedure is torturing people in order to obtain information. In Europe, the far right has always held Japan in high regard. It's a proud nation state, headed by an imperial family, cloaked in myth and legend.

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