> Japan on the other side, actively hide their actions. The US, like the rest of the Allied powers, do more than their fair share of actively hiding their crim

> Japan on the other side, actively hide their actions. The US, like the rest of the Allied powers, do more than their fair share of actively hiding their crimes during the war years. They also love to gloss over the degree to which, before they saw him as a threat to their existence, the Allied powers actually admired and respected Hitler and even sought to emulate his leadership. I mean, most Americans sure as heck don't know that FDR literally modeled the genocide in Puerto Rico after 'the methods which Hitler used effectively'[0]. Because very few schools actually bother to mention Operation Bootstrap in the first place, let alone acknowledge that that the US forcibly sterilized 40% of Puerto Rican women (on the grounds that they were 'unfit to reproduce'). Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the exception only because the events directly led to the Cold War as we know it[1], and it's kind of hard to understand the next 50 years of world history without understanding that the Cold War was happening. [0] https://books.google.com/books?id=3llNN7jmQE4C&pg=PA255&lpg=PA255&dq=%27the+methods+which+hitler+used+effectively%27+allies+of+a+kind&source=bl&ots=4pSLg7kGgE&sig=__41LBUfymnpFdU_RsuGK9PBhjE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi0-oHFh-_MAhUkE1IKHefrBCUQ6AEIGzAA#v=onepage&q=%27the%20methods%20which%20hitler%20used%20effectively%27%20allies%20of%20a%20kind&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=3llNN7jmQE4C&pg=PA255&lpg=... [1] Yes, the Cold War would still have happened even if the US had decided not to drop the bomb, but since we did, the bombings became the unforgettable, tangible symbol of the fear that the Cold War was based on.