Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 2 months agoThe story of Japanese General Tojo who was saved from suicide to be hung with "Remember Pearl Harbour" in his mouth.www.utterlyinteresting.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up184arrow-down12
arrow-up182arrow-down1external-linkThe story of Japanese General Tojo who was saved from suicide to be hung with "Remember Pearl Harbour" in his mouth.www.utterlyinteresting.comQuilotoa@lemmy.ca to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squareCompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·2 months agoYep. That’s kinda where I was headed. Pearl harbour is one thing. What the Japanese did and the bombing campaigns of the allies were both war crimes. But we haven’t talked about the allied side until fairly recently and then only quietly.
minus-squareCypher@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 months agoThe bombing or Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been heavily criticised right from the start, and from the top of the US government at that.
Yep. That’s kinda where I was headed. Pearl harbour is one thing. What the Japanese did and the bombing campaigns of the allies were both war crimes. But we haven’t talked about the allied side until fairly recently and then only quietly.
The bombing or Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been heavily criticised right from the start, and from the top of the US government at that.