Hiroshima. The final word.

Cub Driver wrote:

?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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That didn't keep several Class B war criminals from getting their necks
stretched at Sugamo Prison for issuing the orders and sending them. Do we
know who issued it? Was it the War Minister, General Anaimi? He at least
committed hara-kiri on the 15th and kept himself out of the dock. Some of
his subordinates weren't so lucky.

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About orders to execute American PWs in the event of an American
invasion of Japan:

That didn't keep several Class B war criminals from getting their necks
stretched at Sugamo Prison for issuing the orders and sending them

Who?

I am curious how people could have been hanged for issuing an order
that (as I understand it) was never discovered. All that I have ever
seen published was the order as it was logged into one Japanese
command's headquarters.

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