What army had the worst behaving soldiers during ww2?

Answer 1

Basically the American and Russian soldiers behaved the worst. They raped and looted their way through Normandy and Moscow respectively. Even French, Belgian and Dutch civilians liked German Soldiers much better. Germans payed for everything they took. Even The girls who eloped with German troops had a secure future. While the Americans (especially Blacks) Mongoloid hordes of USSR raped many European women

There is no concrete evidence to support the above statement. It can be clearly observed from the diaries of serving soldiers, social commentators of the time and certified historical documents that atrocities did occur. However each military force, due to it's own patriotic conscience, will be perhaps be less honest about its' own serving members crimes against women than they would be about opposing or other countries. Suffice as to say, to single out particular countries is an over simplification and one wonders if the person posting the above answer has some other axe to grid with the particular countries mentioned; either that or, and I would hope this is unfounded, is particularly obtuse and uneducated to think that criminal behaviour is only the preserve of particular nationalities.

As a whole, the "worst" behaved army in WW2 would go to the Japanese. Due to a whole host of indoctrination and cultural reasons, most of the countries that fought the Japanese were considered by them as "inferior" or "dishonorable", and thus were met with contempt and horrible treatment when conquered or captured. A classic example is the Rape of Nanking during the Second Sino-Japanese War (an adjunct portion of WW2 between China and Japan). The orgy of rape, murder, looting, and destruction there is sadly only notable in the quantity it was done in, not in that it was unusual.

Execution of POWs, rape, murder of civilians, and a whole laundry list of atrocities was unfortunately common for places under Japanese occupation during WW2.

In regards to other countries, only the Nazi SS divisions come close in such commonplace brutality. However, numerous war-crime atrocities were unfortunately relatively common in the bitter Eastern Front campaign between Soviet and Nazi forces, where both sides fought not just a military campaign, but a brutal ideological war, too. Massacres of POWs was frankly the standard on the Eastern Front, but both sides.

Western Allied forces were, in fact, much better behaved on a whole in Europe, with no widespread issues, though there were certainly cases of rape, murder, and even prisoner executions. None of these were more than a few miscreant soldiers, however, and to compare these isolated, limited instances to any behavior of the SS (or even the Soviet/Nazi actions on the Eastern Front) is ludicrous.

However, there is now appearing historical evidence that U.S. and Allied behavior in the Pacific was less exemplary. Much of this can be laid at the dehumanization anti-Japanese Propaganda campaigns run in the US and Australia, emphasizing the sub-human nature of the Japanese, which led to US soldiers deployed there having a much more casual attitude to brutal treatment of captured Japanese. In addition, information about the horrific treatment of civilians and POWs started filtering back to US forces as they recaptured Japanese-held areas, which resulted in a heavy reinforcement of the stereotype of the "animal Japs". Modern historians note that the extremely low rate of capture of surrendering Japanese may not be solely due to Japanese cultural aversion to capture, and that spontaneous killings of surrendering Japanese soldiers was far more common than in Europe, and much more common than older historical accounts have asserted.

That said, the behavior of Allied soldiers in the Pacific towards civilian populations was exemplary, and the overall record in comparison with Japanese forces was radically better.