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Show 65 - Supernova in the East IV

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History

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The Buck Stops With Hitler

There is no place the buck stops when it comes to japanese military responsibility. The constitution gives the us President a lot of war fighting authority. But at the same time, this diffusion of responsibility is something that the other governments did away with because they're totalitariad. There are certain elements that are built into the system, right? American propaganda used to always lump the japanese in with the germans and the italians ry. It was always the big three, hitler, muselini and tojo as thoug they're all totalitarians, all facists, all dictators. Might a like to have been. Japan might have done better if he

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