Episode 207 - Nanking Part 3
Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast
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Iwane Metsuya's Role in the Nanking Trials
The full weight of the blame for what happened in Nanking fell directly on Iwane Metsuya. He spent the pretrial years after his retirement, putting on a show of public flagulation. The crux of his defense boiled down that he ordered his soldiers not to murder and they did it anyway. This is like Hitler getting away with the Holocaust, but instead you hang, I don't know, Erwin Rommel.
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