There were all manner of personalities wherever, but the Gestapo and SS were the most ruthless.
I have a book, "Night Fighter", an autobiography by Bob Braham, one of Britain's top fighter aces in WWII with 29 confirmed kills. He was shot down over occupied Norway and spent the last 10 months of the war in a German prison camp. When he was shot down, he managed to beach his airplane rather than bail out. The plane that shot him down turned around and came back. Braham thought the pilot was going to strafe him and try to finish him off. Instead, the pilot flew over low and slow and waved.
Next day, when Braham was still in an interrogation room, the pilot that shot him down came to visit him. Turned out it was Robert Sprechels, one of Germany's top aces. Through an interpreter, Sprechels told Braham that he was glad he hadn't been hurt, and that he had nothing against him personally, it was "just the war". Sprechels and Braham looked each other up after the war and became good friends.
Then when Braham was in the POW camp, German guards and Allied prisoners alike were basically marking time till the war ended.
Back to the Japanese subs, some sub captains executed survivors of ships they'd sunk, and some of the crew members were totally repulsed by it. It mostly depended on individual personalities and level of dedication.
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