Showing posts with label War Crimes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label War Crimes. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Thursday, December 2, 1915. A Villa massacre.

Pancho Villa ordered a mass execution of the male residents of San Pedro de la Cueva, blaming the town for the deaths of five of his troops, He originally was going to have everyone in the small town executed, but an officer in his forces convinced him to spare the women and children.  Villa personally shot the village priest who urged Villa to spare the town.

The village was principally an Indian one, although a few foreigners and a few Chinese residents were amongst the victims.  Seven men survived having been left for dead.

The press reported that Villa lost support of his Yaquis, and that Carranza had ended military control of the railroads.



Last edition:

Tuesday, November 30, 1915. Carranza on the International Bridge.


Sunday, November 30, 2025

Friday, November 30, 1945. Executing Germans for ordering the killing of civilian sailors and for directly killing downed airmen.

German U-boat commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck, age 29, German U-boat , was executed as a war criminal for ordering his crew to shoot the survivors of the Greek merchant ship Peleus in March 1944.


Seems like I've heard of that happening recently . . . 

Rudolf Hess declared he really didn't have amnesia and was prepared to stand trial.


German civilians were executed for killing downed airmen.


The news was full of the return of long absent servicemen.


"Atomic" was already being used as a synonym for powerful.


Even the cartoons dealt with the return of servicemen.

     

Last edition:

Tuesday, November 27, 1945. Slinky first sold.

Saturday, December 1, 1945. Executed for authorizing unauthorized executions.


 Ge. Anton Dostler, age 54, was executed for following a trial which convicted him of authorizing the execution of 15 U.S. soldiers on a commando type operation. They were in uniform, and clearly combatants entitled to protection under the Geneva Convention.

Saturday, November 22, 2025

Wars and Rumors of War, 2025. Part 8. The Tin Pot Dictator Edition.

You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.

Matthew, Chapter 24.

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.

Smedley D. Butler.


October 25, 2025

United States v. Venezuela.

The US has more ships in the Caribbean since the Cuban Missile Crisis and with massive overreach is executing crewmen of Venezuelan boats, maybe criminals, maybe not, with expensive munitions meant for a peer to peer war on the sea.

A U.S. senior Admiral has resigned rather than participate in what may very well be murder.

Covert operations have been authorized in Venezuela.

October 26, 2025

Thailand v. Cambodia

The countries have signed a ceasefire deal.

October 29, 2025

United States v. ?

The United States extended its campaign of murder into the Pacific this week, sinking four boats and leaving picking up the survivors to Mexico, which protested over the killings.

Sooner or later, and probably sooner, the U.S. Navy is going to kill a charter fishing boat with Americans on it.  It's inevitable.

Israel v. Hamas

Israel executed a large scale strike on Gaza . . . it appears the ceasefire may be in trouble.

October 30, 2025

The United States, with a demented child in the Oval Office, is going to resume the testing of nuclear weapons.


Trump  is clearly, to use the legal standard, "a danger to himself or others".  

Apply the 25th Amendment.

November 1, 2025

Russo Ukrainian War

Ukraine asserts that Russia has deployed 170,000 troops in eastern Donetsk in an effort to take the stronghold of Pokrovsk.

November 2, 2025

United States v. Nigerian Islamic Terrorists

President Trump threatened to intervene in Nigeria if the country doesn't get that nation's anti Christian terrorists under control. 

United States v. Venezuela

A Russian Il-76 with cargo plane linked to the Wagner Mercenary group landed in Caracas, Venezuela on October 26.

November 18, 2025

Israel v. Hamas

The UN Security Council approved the following resolution yesterday:

Resolution 2803 (2025)

Adopted by the Security Council at its 10046th meeting, on 17 November 2025

The Security Council,

Welcoming the Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict of 29 September 2025 (“Comprehensive Plan”), and applauding the states that have signed, accepted, or endorsed it, and further welcoming the historic Trump Declaration for Enduring Peace and Prosperity of 13 October 2025 and the constructive role played by the United States of America, the State of Qatar, the Arab Republic of Egypt, and the Republic of Türkiye, in having facilitated the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip,

Determining that the situation in the Gaza Strip threatens the regional peace and the security of neighboring states and noting prior relevant Security Council resolutions relating to the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question,

1. Endorses the Comprehensive Plan, acknowledges the parties have accepted it, and calls on all parties to implement it in its entirety, including maintenance of the ceasefire, in good faith and without delay;

2. Welcomes the establishment of the Board of Peace (BoP) as a transitional administration with international legal personality that will set the framework, and coordinate funding, for the redevelopment of Gaza pursuant to the Comprehensive Plan, and in a manner consistent with relevant international legal principles, until such time as the Palestinian Authority (PA) has satisfactorily completed its reform program, as outlined in various proposals, including President Trump’s peace plan in 2020 and the Saudi-French Proposal, and can securely and effectively take back control of Gaza. After the PA reform program is faithfully carried out and Gaza redevelopment has advanced, the conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood. The United States will establish a dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians to agree on a political horizon for peaceful and prosperous coexistence;

3. Underscores the importance of the full resumption of humanitarian aid in cooperation with the BoP into the Gaza Strip in a manner consistent with relevant international legal principles and through cooperating organizations, including the United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the Red Crescent, and ensuring such aid is used solely for peaceful uses and not diverted by armed groups;

4. Authorizes Member States participating in the BoP and the BoP to: (A) enter into such arrangements as may be necessary to achieve the objectives of the Comprehensive Plan, including those addressing privileges and immunities of personnel of the force established in paragraph 7 below; and (B) establish operational entities with, as necessary, international legal personality and transactional authorities for the performance of its functions, including: (1) the implementation of a transitional governance administration, including the supervising and supporting of a Palestinian technocratic, apolitical committee of competent Palestinians from the Strip, as championed by the Arab League, which shall be responsible for day-to-day operations of Gaza’s civil service and administration; (2) the reconstruction of Gaza and of economic recovery programs; (3) the coordination and supporting of and delivery of public services and humanitarian assistance in Gaza; (4) any measures to facilitate the movement of persons in and out of Gaza, in a manner consistent with the Comprehensive Plan; and (5) any such additional tasks as may be necessary to support and implement the Comprehensive Plan;

5. Understands that the operational entities referred to in paragraph 4 above will operate under the transitional authority and oversight of the BoP and are to be funded through voluntary contributions from donors and BoP funding vehicles and governments;

6. Calls upon the World Bank and other financial institutions to facilitate and provide financial resources to support the reconstruction and development of Gaza , including through the establishment of a dedicated trust fund for this purpose and governed by donors;

7. Authorizes Member States working with the BoP and the BoP to establish a temporary International Stabilization Force (ISF) in Gaza to deploy under unified command acceptable to the BoP, with forces contributed by participating States, in close consultation and cooperation with the Arab Republic of Egypt and the State of Israel, and to use all necessary measures to carry out its mandate consistent with international law, including international humanitarian law. The ISF shall work with Israel and Egypt, without prejudice to their existing agreements, along with the newly trained and vetted Palestinian police force, to help secure border areas; stabilize the security environment in Gaza by ensuring the process of demilitarizing the Gaza Strip, including the destruction and prevention of rebuilding of the military, terror, and offensive infrastructure, as well as the permanent decommissioning of weapons from non-state armed groups; protect civilians, including humanitarian operations; train and provide support to the vetted Palestinian police forces; coordinate with relevant States to secure humanitarian corridors; and undertake such additional tasks as may be necessary in support of the Comprehensive Plan. As the ISF establishes control and stability, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will withdraw from the Gaza Strip based on standards, milestones, and timeframes linked to demilitarization that will be agreed between the IDF, ISF, the guarantors, and the United States, save for a security perimeter presence that will remain until Gaza is properly secure from any resurgent terror threat. The ISF shall, (A) assist the BoP in monitoring the implementation of the ceasefire in Gaza, and enter into such arrangements as may be necessary to achieve the objectives of the Comprehensive Plan; and (B) operate under the strategic guidance of the BoP and will be funded through voluntary contributions from donors and BoP funding vehicles and governments;

8. Decides the BoP and international civil and security presences authorized by this resolution shall remain authorized until Dec. 31, 2027, subject to further action by the Council, and any further reauthorization of the ISF be in full cooperation and coordination with Egypt and Israel and other Member States continuing to work with the ISF;

9. Calls upon Member States and international organizations to work with the BoP to identify opportunities to contribute personnel, equipment, and financial resources to its operating entities and the ISF, to provide technical assistance to its operating entities and the ISF, and to give full recognition to its acts and documents;

10. Requests the BoP provide a written report on progress related to the above to the UN Security Council every six months;

11. Decides to remain seized of the matter.

United States v. Venezuela

USS Gerald R. Ford Enters Caribbean Sea

This is all part of the illegal use of US military force against suspected drug smuggling entities.  Yesterday, Trump vaguely suggested the US might hit targets in Mexico.

November 21, 2025

Russo Ukrainian War

The Trump and Putin administrations combined to work out a peace plan for Ukraine . . .without Ukraine.  The agreement would cede territory to Ukraine, limit the size of Ukraine's military, and prevent additional member states in NATO, the last of which the US cannot actually commit to as it does not unliterally represent NATO.

The text of the proposal is here:

1. Ukraine's sovereignty will be confirmed. 

2. A comprehensive [sic] and comprehensive non-aggression agreement will be concluded between Russia, Ukraine and Europe. All ambiguities of the last 30 years will be considered settled. 

3. It is expected that Russia will not invade neighboring countries and NATO will not expand further. 

Expected? 

4. A dialogue will be held between Russia and NATO, mediated by the United States, to resolve all security issues and create conditions for de-escalation in order to ensure global security and increase opportunities for cooperation and future economic development. 

5. Ukraine will receive reliable security guarantees. 

Supposedly it received those when it gave up its nuclear weapons. 

6. The size of the Ukrainian Armed Forces will be limited to 600,000 personnel. 

This is bullshit.  Ukraine's army is defense.  Why not limit Russia's army? 

7. Ukraine agrees to enshrine in its constitution that it will not join NATO, and NATO agrees to include in its statutes a provision that Ukraine will not be admitted in the future. 

Further bullshit. 

8. NATO agrees not to station troops in Ukraine. 

More bullshit. 

9. European fighter jets will be stationed in Poland. 

Why is this even being discussed? 

10. US guarantee: 

▪️ The US will receive compensation for the guarantee. 

We get paid?  Why? 

▪️ If Ukraine invades Russia, it will lose the guarantee. 

Not going to happen. 

▪️ If Russia invades Ukraine, in addition to a decisive coordinated military response, all global sanctions will be reinstated, recognition of the new territory and all other benefits of this deal will be revoked.  

▪️ If Ukraine launches a missile at Moscow or St. Petersburg without cause, the security guarantee will be deemed invalid. 

11. Ukraine is eligible for EU membership and will receive short-term preferential access to the European market while this issue is being considered. 

12. A powerful global package of measures to rebuild Ukraine, including but not limited to: 

a. The creation of a Ukraine Development Fund to invest in fast-growing industries, including technology, data centers, and artificial intelligence. 

b. The United States will cooperate with Ukraine to jointly rebuild, develop, modernize, and operate Ukraine's gas infrastructure, including pipelines and storage facilities. 

c. Joint efforts to rehabilitate war-affected areas for the restoration, reconstruction and modernization of cities and residential areas. 

d. Infrastructure development. 

e. Extraction of minerals and natural resources. 

f. The World Bank will develop a special financing package to accelerate these efforts. 

13. Russia will be reintegrated into the global economy: 

a. The lifting of sanctions will be discussed and agreed upon in stages and on a case-by-case basis. 

b. The United States will enter into a long-term economic cooperation agreement for mutual development in the areas of energy, natural resources, infrastructure, artificial intelligence, data centers, rare earth metal extraction projects in the Arctic, and other mutually beneficial corporate opportunities. 

c. Russia will be invited to rejoin the G8. 

14. Frozen funds will be used as follows: 

$100 billion in frozen Russian assets will be invested in US-led efforts to rebuild and invest in Ukraine. The US will receive 50% of the profits from this venture. Europe will add $100 billion to increase the amount of investment available for Ukraine's reconstruction. Frozen European funds will be unfrozen. The remainder of the frozen Russian funds will be invested in a separate US-Russian investment vehicle that will implement joint projects in specific areas. This fund will be aimed at strengthening relations and increasing common interests to create a strong incentive not to return to conflict. 

15. A joint American-Russian working group on security issues will be established to promote and ensure compliance with all provisions of this agreement. 

16. Russia will enshrine in law its policy of non-aggression towards Europe and Ukraine. 

17. The United States and Russia will agree to extend the validity of treaties on the non-proliferation and control of nuclear weapons, including the START I Treaty. 

18. Ukraine agrees to be a non-nuclear state in accordance with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. 

19. The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant will be launched under the supervision of the IAEA, and the electricity produced will be distributed equally between Russia and Ukraine — 50:50. 

20. Both countries undertake to implement educational programs in schools and society aimed at promoting understanding and tolerance of different cultures and eliminating racism and prejudice: 

Gee. .. maybe the US ought to do that. .  oh wait, that would be DEI. 

a. Ukraine will adopt EU rules on religious tolerance and the protection of linguistic minorities. 

b. Both countries will agree to abolish all discriminatory measures and guarantee the rights of Ukrainian and Russian media and education.  

c. All Nazi ideology and activities must be rejected and prohibited. 

This is baloney.  There isn't a lot of this in Ukraine to start with and Russia behaves as if anything Ukraine does is due to Nazi ideology.

By the way, Donald. . . are you going to address this with Nick Fuentes? 

21. Territories: 

a. Crimea, Luhansk and Donetsk will be recognized as de facto Russian, including by the United States. 

b. Kherson and Zaporizhzhia will be frozen along the line of contact, which will mean de facto recognition along the line of contact.  

c. Russia will relinquish other agreed territories it controls outside the five regions. 

d. Ukrainian forces will withdraw from the part of Donetsk Oblast that they currently control, and this withdrawal zone will be considered a neutral demilitarized buffer zone, internationally recognized as territory belonging to the Russian Federation. Russian forces will not enter this demilitarized zone. 

22. After agreeing on future territorial arrangements, both the Russian Federation and Ukraine undertake not to change these arrangements by force. Any security guarantees will not apply in the event of a breach of this commitment. 

23. Russia will not prevent Ukraine from using the Dnieper River for commercial activities, and agreements will be reached on the free transport of grain across the Black Sea. 

24. A humanitarian committee will be established to resolve outstanding issues: 

a. All remaining prisoners and bodies will be exchanged on an ‘all for all’ basis. 

b. All civilian detainees and hostages will be returned, including children. 

c. A family reunification programme will be implemented. 

d. Measures will be taken to alleviate the suffering of the victims of the conflict. 

25. Ukraine will hold elections in 100 days. 

How about Russia?  

Russia's clearly going to interfere in any Ukrainian election. 

Ukraine has already stated that it won't stand for a limitation on the size of its armed forces.

November 22, 2025

Russo Ukrainian War

Trump has demanded Ukraine's position on the peace proposal by Thursday.

Last edition:

Wars and Rumors of War, 2025. Part 7. The snatching victory edition.

Monday, November 17, 2025

Saturday, November 17, 1945. Charles De Gaulle says Non to the Communists.

Charles de Gaulle made a broadcast to the people of France announcing that he rejecting the position of president of FRance due to the "excessive demands regarding ministerial posts."  He further announced that he would continue serving but would refuse to appoint any  Communist to "any post related to foreign affairs."

Communist had done extremely well in the recent election and were a major component of the coalition government, taking more votes that any other party.  The French Section of the Workers International, a French Socialist Party, had done very well also, coming in third.  Coming in just behind the Communists, however, was the Catholic Popular Republican Movement. All three parties were in coalition that dates back to the election, with the coalition having De Gaulle's support at the time.

France was, quite frankly, on the very verge of becoming a Communist state, given the strong left wing turnout in the election.  If it had, it would have been a disaster of epic proportions for the West.  Most people looking at it objectively would have supposed that France would fall to the Communist.

This helps put in context, to a certain extent, the degree to which French military and political figures were proactive in trying to reestablish French colonialism, which was cast, with some credibility, as a war between Western ideals and Communism, although only imperfectly so. That France didn't go into a civil war is in no small part due to DeGaulle.  DeGaulle would whether the leftist Third Republic, after which France would pull back from the brink. Still, having said that, why France fought it out in Indochina, and Algeria, makes a lot more sense if that history is grasped.

Josef Kramer, Irma Grese, Dr. Fritz Klein and eight others were sentenced to death by a British military court as Nazi war criminals for their roles in the concentration camps.  

Kramer had come up in the concentration camp system, having been in the SS prior to World War Two.He was the Commandant of Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen Belsen.

Grese was 22 years old making her the youngest person to die under British law in the 20th Century. She'd joined the  Bund Deutscher Mädel in 1937 at age 13, causing a rift with her father who did not approve of the Nazi Party. She left home at age 14 and entered the SS at age 18, having already worked for Karl Gelbardt by that time.  In the camps she gained responsibility and became incredibly sadistic as well as extremely perverted perverted sadistic bisexual who had affairs with imprisoned Jewish women, and who is rumored to have a had one with Josef Kramer, until he learned of that. She was a sadist, and clearly an extremely tortured soul mentally. 

Regarding her, inmate Auschwitz Romanian Jewish gynecologist Gisella Perl stated:

She was one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen. Her body was perfect in every line, her face clear and angelic and her blue eyes the gayest, the most innocent eyes one can imagine. And yet, Irma Greze was the most depraved, cruel, imaginative sexual pervert I ever came across.

Perl relocated to Israel after the war with her daughter, whom she hid from the Naizs, and died there on December 16, 1988, at the age of 81

Kramer and Grese, August 8, 1945.

Frankly, a lot of Nazism was an absolute perversion.

News of Grese's death sentence hit the front pages in the United States. The Sheridan newspaper used one of her two common nicknames, the Beast of Belsen (the Hyena of Belsen was the other), its story on her.


The ongoing investigation on Pearl Harbor also made the front news, as did the French political scene.

A selection of Saturday cartoons from the paper:


The Saturday Evening Post ran a cover with a hunting and puppy theme.


This would be subject to copyright, but we run it here under the fair use exception to note how common hunting themes were at the time.

Last edition:

Friday, November 16, 1945. UNESCO founded. USS Laramie decommissioned.

Monday, November 10, 2025

Saturday, November 10, 1945. Heart Mountain Closed.


Today In Wyoming's History: November 101945  Heart Mountain internment center closed.

Indonesian troops staged a  major counterattack at Surabaya.  This is Indonesian Heroes Day in commemoration of the event.

The death penalty was carried out on five Germans convicted for the murder of six American airmen in the Rüsselsheim massacre.


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Saturday, November 8, 2025

Thursday, November 8, 1945. British ultimatum in Indonesia.

British commander in Indonesia E. C. Mansergh ordered Indonesians to surrender their arms by 18:00 or face  "all the naval, army and air forces under my command".  Sukarno appealed to President Truman and Prime Minister Attlee to intervene.

Former Hungarian Prime Minister László Bárdossy was sentenced to death.

August von Mackensen, age 95, famous German Field Marshal, died, which seems somehow fitting, not only because of his advanced old age, but also because the Germanys he served had effectively died as well.

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Sunday, November 4, 1945. Independent Smallholders Party win the Hungarian parliamentary elections.


Sunday, October 26, 2025

Friday, October 26, 1945. Cowards.

Nazis awaiting trial were demonstrating themselves to be cowards.


Albert Einstein advocated for a world government to prevent nuclear war in an interview in The Atlantic.

Communists battled their opponents in the streets of Sofia, Bulgara.

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Sunday, October 12, 2025

Friday, October 12, 1945. Operation Beleaguer.

I missed this when it started, which was October 10, so I'll note it here. This was day two of Operation Beleaguer, the Marine Corps occupation of northeastern China's Hebei and Shandong provinces from 1945 until 1949.

Members of the 1st Marine Division in China.  Two Chinese women appear in this photograph, one dressed in Western clothing, even though the Marine Corps attempted to strictly prevent romances breaking out between Marines and Chinese civilians.  People are people, so such interactions are essentially impossible to stop, but this particular story is very understudied, in part because Asian women were not covered by the War Brides Act, but marriages nonetheless occured. 5,132 Chinese women entered the United States as spouses of servicemen after World War Two, which included women who married Army Air Corps servicemen who had served in China during the war.  This is, overall, a small number, and indeed its must smaller than the number of Japanese women who married U.S. servicemen after 1950, which reflects official policy, cultural differences, and lingering US prejudice in the period against the Chinese.

It was not a combat operation, although some combat would ultimately occur, but focused on the repatriation of more than 600,000 Japanese and Koreans that remained in China at the end of World War II to their homelands.  Having said that, the looming crisis in post war China in which a seemingly defeated Communist Party began to advance in the country's civil war was not far from anyone's mind and the primary mission of force was to prevent the People's Liberation Army from accepting the surrender of Japanese soldiers in Northern China and to secure that region of China for the Nationalist Government, which had been an American ally throughout the war.  Landings actually commenced as early as September 30. By the end of the operation in 1949, the 1st Marine Division would be a covering force for the evacuation of foreign nationals.
 
U.S. Marines had been in China well before World War Two, but in this instance the it was effectively a different Marine Corps than the one that had existed up until 1940.  The Marine Corps had only been a major combat force once previously, and that had been during World War One when the 4th Marine Brigade had been part of the US Second Division.  The 1st Marine Division dated back only to February 1, 1941 when the military started to enormously expand in anticipation of going to war.  Given its prior history, only the Marines themselves really anticipated being a major ground combat element in the war, ultimately expanding to six divisions.  Six divisions is a huge Marine Corps, but the Corps was dwarfed in size by the Army, even in terms of Pacific combat, where the Army deployed twenty two divisions.

With the end of the war the service began to return men quite rapidly to civilian status and members of the Marine Corps, the vast majority of whom were wartime volunteers, anticipated the same.  Prior to the war Marines tended to be career oriented to a high degree, and frankly about as rough of set of characters as could be imagined.  By 1945 most of them were toughened civilians in uniform, comparable to volunteers in the U.S. Army, and some were conscripts.  Nobody anticipated being sent into China, even though prior to the war Marines had served there.

Because the military was in fact demobilizing, this would prove to be a problem for the 1st Marine Division in China, as it soon began to suffer attrition due to members being discharged.  It's combat efficiency dropped, and at the same time, it became increasingly obvious that the Communists were going to win the Chinese Civil War.

While going to China was a surprise to the Marines, the found when they arrived that the Chinese were wildly enthusiastic about their appearance.  No doubt their showing up meant not only that they were liberated from the Japanese, but also from the Communists and the Nationalist, at least for a time.

On this, while we're jumping way ahead of our story, it's also worth noting that this points out a problem in the "who lost China" line of the Republican Party following the evacuation of the Chinese Nationalist from the mainland.  There are a lot of elements to that story, but the GOP at the time, suddenly shocked following the Berlin Blockade and then the fall of the Nationalist government in China, looked for somebody to blame.

It might be noted at first, that they should have looked at themselves.  The GOP had been actively highly isolationist prior to World War Two and evcen leading up the last year before the war there were strong elements within the party that opposed entering the war.  The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor followed by the German declaration of war on the U.S. solved that for a time, but upon the restoration of peace, the main branch of the GOP returned to isolationism.  The US didn't become isolationist as the 79th Congress remained controlled by Democrats.  The 80th Congress did not, but it was somewhat ineffectual for that period (which is nothing compared to today).  The 80th Congress, however, notably presided over the fall of China.

Be that as it may, some have suggested that US inaction over China was due to the penetration of the US by Soviet spies in the 1930s, and there may be a little to that, but only a little.  M. Stanton Evans hinted at that in his revisionist biography of Joseph McCarthy, which is quite well done and a good read. But even there, the suggestion was that Communist elements managed to hold up arms shipments to the Nationalist.  Even were that true, any follower of this site could see that in 1945 China was awash in arms and yet at the same time the Nationalist were losing battle after battle.

It is something worth exploring.  Before the war with Japan, the Nationalist were winning.  After the war, it just took five years for them to lose.

Anyhow,, realistically, looking at Operation Beleaguer, what really could have been done?  The US was not going to be able to send U.S. troops into a Chinese Civil War right after World War Two. There was no public will for that at all and no moral within the U.S. military that would have allowed for that to have occured.

Elsewhere in China, the Shangdang Campaign ended in communist victory.

German general Anton Dostler was sentenced to death in Rome for war crimes.

The Norwegian Supreme Court upheld the death sentence imposed on Vidkun Quisling.

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Thursday, September 11, 2025

Tuesday, September 11, 1945. The arrest of Tojo.


Hideki Tojo attempted suicide when American troops arrived at his home to arrest him as a war criminal.  The self inflicted gunshot wound was not fatal.

He's entered the Japanese Army as an officer in 1905, right after the Russo Japanese War.  He became Prime Minister in October, 1941, and advocated for war against the United States, and occupied that position until July 1944, at which time he was replaced as it was realized that the United States would not negotiate with him, and indeed he was tried as a war criminal and executed in 1948.

The U.S. House voted for a Congressional investigation of Pearl Harbor.  The measure had already passed the Senate.

The Chinese Nationalist Army occupied Hanoi under agreement with the Allied Powers, pending resumption of French control of Indochina.

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Monday, September 10, 1945. Eh?