Hitler and Mussolini's main battlefield in Europe, Japan's Emperor Hirohito's main battlefield in Asia, the three culprits echoed each other and cooperated, causing thousands of deaths.
Why is it that the perpetrators of World War II, Hitler and Mussolini, were punished, while Emperor Hirohito of Japan escaped unpunished death.
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There is a folk saying called "come out of the mix, sooner or later to pay back", the German Fuehrer Hitler, in order to regain the land lost in World War I. Incidentally, The First World War was also caused by Germany, which was divided in two by the victorious powers after its defeat in the First World War, and part of the land was ceded to Poland as an outlet to the sea.
Hitler became the Fuehrer of Germany and was so embroiled in negotiations that he blitzed Poland on September 1, 1939, and World War II broke out.
After 6 years of fighting with the Anglo-American coalition forces, Hitler finally failed.
On April 30, 1945, near the end of World War II, Hitler, who saw no hope, committed suicide by drinking bullets with his mistress Eva in the Berlin bunker.
On the day of Hitler's suicide, his fervent follower, Italian Prime Minister Sorrini, fled to Germany in desperation, only to be captured alive by Italian partisans halfway through, and Mussolini and his mistress Pettage were both hanged on Piazza Milano.
Mussolini and his mistress were executed
Most fortunately, Emperor Hirohito of Japan escaped punishment and lived until the age of 88.
It is strange that Hitler and Mussolini, who were also the culprits of the Second World War, could not escape justice, why did the Japanese emperor escape punishment?
There have been many opinions on this issue, and I have summarized the following three main points.
The first is that the United States reached an agreement with Emperor Hirohito in order to end World War II as soon as possible. It meant using the emperor's influence to persuade the Japanese people to surrender.
Before World War II, the Emperor of Japan was as sacred and inoffensive as the emperors of our country in ancient times.
Before the end of World War II, Japan's defeat was decided, and Emperor Hirohito began to care about his own destiny.
On August 9, 1945, the U.S. military dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, but Hirohito still did not admit defeat, deceiving the public that the atomic bomb exploded because of the meteorites falling on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. He also formulated a battle plan for Ning Wei Yu rather than Waquan.
In view of this, MacArthur panicked, if the Japanese emperor stubbornly resisted, the Allies would have to invest more troops, which was a huge military expenditure.
MacArthur
In order to end World War II as soon as possible, U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower and Allied Commander-in-Chief MacArthur discussed that as long as Emperor Hirohito announced his unconditional surrender, the Allies could consider exempting him from punishment.
Then, in order to save himself, on August 15, 1945, a week after the atomic bombing, he changed his course and ordered the army to abandon the last resistance and declare unconditional surrender.
It now seems that there are conditions for unconditional surrender, that is, to exempt Emperor Hirohito from punishment.
The second theory is that Hirohito was protected by MacArthur, the Allied commander-in-chief.
Since Emperor Hirohito issued the Declaration of Unconditional Surrender, MacArthur has ascended to this magical land, and he has seen the Japanese people living in humility and courtesy, and a harmonious social order everywhere.
This was the exact opposite of the wartime fanatical Japanese people, who suddenly felt the power of the Japanese Emperor, who, at the emperor's order, made these fanatics put down their butcher knives.
Hirohito announced his surrender
Faced with this scene, MacArthur immediately dismissed the idea of punishing the Japanese emperor.
Previously, it had become an international consensus to punish the Japanese emperor and abolish the emperor system. MacArthur immediately sent a telegram to the president, saying that if the emperor was to be punished or abolished, there would be unrest in Japan, and that the United States would have to increase its troops and military expenditures at that time, which the United States could not afford.
In the telegram, MacArthur described the emperor as "a symbol of the unity of the Japanese people" and warned that if the emperor was prosecuted, Japan would suffer "great turmoil", "division", and guerrilla warfare would be fought...
MacArthur's words influenced the President of the United States, and the International Court of Justice did everything in its power to exonerate Emperor Hirohito, blaming Hideki Tojo for the crimes that Hirohito bore, and eventually Hideki Tojo was hanged, but Hirohito escaped.
Trial of Hideki Tojo
The third theory is that Emperor Hirohito exchanged a huge amount of valuable information and resources for the impunity and abolition of the emperor under the leadership of the United States, and that japan's fragmentation was not in the interest of the United States in order to stabilize the situation in post-war East Asia.
The United States needs to build an anti-communist economic powerhouse. The United States believes that if the emperor is punished and abolished, the emperor's reputation will plummet, Japan will be leaderless, and the harmonious order will be broken.
By helping Hirohito escape punishment and retain the imperial system, the United States will control the Japanese people by controlling Hirohito.
Hirohito travels
In other words, Hirohito was still useful at the time, and it was in the interest of the United States to control him as a puppet.
All in all, the Japanese emperor was able to escape punishment entirely for the benefit of the United States.
From this incident, it can be seen that there is no justice in what the United States has done, it is entirely for the purpose of American priority, and the implementation of double standards is a consistent practice of the United States.
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