Tuesday, December 23, 2008
This Day in the History of Slow but Sure Justice
On this day in 1948, Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders, all Class-A war criminals, were executed, by hanging, for their war crimes. Tojo had shot himself, in September 1945, through the spot where his doctor had marked where Tojo's heat was, but he somehow missed that vital organ. Tojo had been convicted of several counts of waging unprovoked war against several nations and one count of "ordering, authorizing and permitting inhumane treatment" of POWs.
The other six were: Kenji Doihara, who plotted the Mukden incident and authorized the attack on Pearl Harbor; Koki Hirota , who signed treaties with Nazi Germany and plotted the attacks on China and Southeast Asia; Akira Muto, who was responsible for the Nanking rape/murder fest; Seishiro Itagaki, responsible for many prison camp atrocities; Heitaro Kimura, responsible for the deaths of POWs and levied workers on the Siam Burma Railway; and, Iwane Matsui, also responsible for the Nanking rape/murder fest.
Labels: Pacific theater; War Crimes, WWII post history
Friday, November 23, 2007
This Day in the History of Getting Serious About Our Enemies
On this day in 1945, U.S. wartime food rationing of meat, butter, and other foods, ended. Those items had been going first to the troops fighting Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, our toughest opponents since 1814. Difficult for us under 60 to believe we got that serious about winning WWII.
Labels: WWII post history
