The Morning Show- 9/3/20 ”Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps”

In her book "Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps," author Sarah Kovner explores why many Allied prisoners of the Japanese were treated so brutally while many others were treated quite humanely. Why the wide variance? And when it came to those situations where POW's were treated brutally, why was that the case? It turns out that some of the reasons are surprising.