War Diaries (August 15) (nonfiction)
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Mister Park: August 15, 1943
Mr. Murayama and his wife begged me to take over and run their comfort station, so I decided definitively that I would accede to his request.
—Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager is a book of diaries written by a clerk who worked in Japanese military brothels, also known as "comfort stations", in Burma and Singapore during World War II. The author, a Korean businessman known only as Mister Park, kept a daily diary between 1922 and 1957.
- Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager @ sdh-fact.com
- Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager
Reina Spiegel: August 8, 1940
- Renia Spiegel, civilian (diary)
Our visit to Daddy has been put off day after day. Now we don’t have much summer vacation left, but we’re still going.
What does it matter that they have torn lands apart, that they have divided brothers, sent children far away from their mothers? What does it matter that they say “This is mine” or “The border is here”? The clouds, the birds and the sun laugh at these borders, at human beings, at their guns. They go back and forth, smuggling rain, blades of grass, rays of sunshine. And no one even thinks of banning them. If they even tried, the sun would burst out with bright laughter and they’d have to close their eyes. The clouds, birds, and wind would follow. So would one small human soul, and plenty of my thoughts.
George Beck: August 15, 1944
Sold a pair of socks for cigarettes. Had to do something.
—George Beck,1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, prisoner of war (diary)
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