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A 5 page summation and analysis of the major points in John Dower's War Without Mercy. In this book, Dower examines the conflict in the Pacific during World War II from the perspective of how it represented long-standing attitudes and racial prejudices. Dower shows how both sides—Axis and Allied—saw the conflict as a "holy war for national survival and glory" (3). No additional sources cited.
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the conflict as a "holy war for national survival and glory" (3). The Axis nations-Japan, Germany, and Italy-declared that they were creating a "virile new world order" that revitalized traditional
values and "transcended the modern" (3). The Allies rallied behind the cause of fighting tyranny and oppression (3). While these were the public causes t hat inspired populations, Dower
also shows that the leaders involved were very aware the war was also about "control of territory, markets, natural resources, and other peoples" (4). Dowers analysis shows how issues of
race during World War II affected the orientation of both sides, but particularly how racism was a dominant factor from an American point of view concerning the Japanese. In
presenting his evidence to substantiate this point, Dower provides a wide-ranging perspective that includes racist propaganda, from the Japanese as well as the American side. He begins by detailing the
propaganda films produced by Frank Capra for the war department. The most striking feature of this section is the depth and degree to which the Japanese were hated. As Dower
points out, soon after WWII was over, the American historian Alan Nevins published an essay in which he said "no foe has been so detested... (as) the Japanese" (33).
As Dowers account proves, this was certainly true. However, Dowers analysis is much more then simply yet another rendition of US wartime prejudice. He shows how this racial bigotry fit
into a much larger pattern, and how racism has remained one of the "great neglected subjects of World War Two" (4). Dower shows that the Nazi persecution of the
Jews was not an isolated event, nor something unique to the Germans. There was also the "hidden" Holocaust in that peoples throughout Europe were in agreement with the Nazi pogrom,
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