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General Tojo Part 2: Terror in China

Real Dictators

CHAPTER

Kempatai and the Nazi Secret Police

Kempatai is a highly immoral organization run by extremely questionable people, whose loyalty is only to the central military authorities. Drawing analogies with a Gestapo, perhaps, but a little bit more than that. It's very difficult to adequately quantify them in a Western kind of concept. In 1937, Japan takes things up a gear and invades China. The Japanese are imbued with a powerful self-belief, and they are about to embark on a truly horrific campaign of terror to show the Chinese who's boss.

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