Originally Posted by AussieNick

If you look at Japanese POW camps in WW2 they make German POW camps for allied Brits/US/Aussies were rather luxurious.

I won't go into too much detail, but look at the examples of Changi prison and the forced work on the Burma Railway, thousands of Australians and Brits died at the hands of their Japanese captors. and as for shooting on sight, try the example of when the Japanese took the island of New Britain off the coast of PNG. They captured a regiment of 1000 Australian soldiers, and on the first day they tied 160 of them to trees and used them as live bayonet practice (plus other beheadings and shootings). Absolutley and horribly brutal. Understandably there were only a couple of survivors of the New Britain massacres. At least during the second world war, on the whole, the Nazis were to some degree gentlemanly about taking prisoners of war (western allies anyway).