?I've heard similar stories, but that the kill order
was to go into effect once the invasion of Japan began.

If there was such an order, it evidently was destroyed. (The joke in
August 1945 was that the smoke of the last raid simply morphed into
the smoke of burning documents.) All that appears to exist is a copy
of a radiogram explaining *how* to dispose of the prisoners when the
order was given or when local conditions mandated it.


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