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The trial of the Japanese murderers and torturers on May 3, 1946
Direct translation of the article[Regnum] After the Japanese government and command became aware of the terms of surrender, set out in the Potsdam Declaration of the Allied Powers of July 26, 1945, intensive meetings were held in Tokyo at which an answer to the ultimatum was worked out. If politicians from the "party of peace" were ready to accept all the provisions of the declaration and declare surrender, the Japanese generals opposed this, trying to negotiate their agreement to end the war on their own terms. At the same time, fearing retribution for crimes committed by the Japanese army monstrous war crimes, they were opposed to the 10th paragraph of the Potsdam Declaration, which read: "We do not intend that the Japanese shall be enslaved as a race or destroyed as a nation, but all war criminals, including those who committed atrocities against our captives must be severely punished. " The Japanese generals advocated that the war criminals "be punished by the Japanese themselves." Posted by: badanov 2021-05-03 |
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