This speech was made in 2010, but it is interesting because there aren't very many people alive anymore who lived through this stuff. It hits home with me because I met a very old woman a few years back, before Obama, during the George W. Bush presidency, and she described the conditions in Germany in the years before the Nazis took power as being much the same as the atmosphere that currently existed in the United States. It is important to understand that Hitler wasn't elected by people who necessarily wanted to do the things that his government subsequently focused on. Germans in the 1930s were not necessarily evil people. They were people who living in a place and a time where there seemed to be no hope, and that was something that Hitler promised. The video is long but many of you will recognize the world she is speaking of.
Pardon me for this segue but there is parallelism here during the second world war - Germans and Japanese. According to my grandfather, not all Japanese soldiers were evil like what we saw in movies and in history books. In fact, there was a town in the nearby province where the Japanese were not only friendly but even socializing with the people as if they are migrants and not soldiers. And as per the account of those soldiers, they were here not really to conquer the Filipinos but to reorganize the country - from the system of government down to the culture - with the promise to make our country great. However, what dominated the scenes were the pictures of atrocities and abuses of the Japanese invaders mainly due to the orders of the military officers.