Atrocities committed by the Japanese could not be characterized as anything more evil than the Nazi Final Solution. But the Nazis had not attacked Americans on American soil. And among high-level military ranks, there was more to the story. It was the Japanese treatment of prisoners of war that sparked hatred toward the Eastern foe among Pentagon operatives, who would have had access to information regarding treatment of American and British POWs. Allied intelligence had plenty of evidence of beheadings, torture, and executions.
