#头条创作挑战赛 #
On September 12, 1945, Hideki Tojo, the 40th Prime Minister of Japan, sat at his home, looking through the glass at the American soldiers who had come to arrest him in the courtyard, and after much hesitation, decided to shoot himself. When the soldiers rushed into the room, Hideki Tojo was already dying, and after an emergency blood transfusion, he was temporarily pulled back from the ghost gate, and three months later he was dragged into the scene of the trial.
After a two-and-a-half-year trial at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, Hideki Tojo was eventually hanged in a refusal to plead guilty.
What kind of person is Hideki Tojo, who commits suicide in fear of sin but does not admit guilt?
First of all, he is a little fan of Germany
Hideki Tojo has deep ties to Germany. In 1915, after graduating from the Japanese Army University, Hideki Tojo entered the Japanese Army Province for internships, and soon transferred to the Japanese Embassy in Germany as a military attaché. While working at the German embassy, Hideki Tojo was hit by a major opportunity in his life when Crown Prince Hirohito traveled to Europe and received Japanese officers in various European countries.
During Hirohito's trip to Europe, he received a large number of young Japanese officers who swore allegiance to the death, and the famous "Baden-Baden Miyu U Conspiracy" (Nagata Tetsuyama, Toshishiro Obata, and Ninji Okamura) took place at this time, and Hideki Tojo was now guarding the gates of this conspiracy, just like the subsequent war of aggression against China, acting as Emperor Hirohito's tireless front guard.
In 1921, Hideki Tojo spent a summer visiting Germany, and compared to the rush of the Washington Conference at the end of the year, the German experience left a deep impression on him, making him full of good feelings about the German system and customs, which may be the reason why he only knew German in his life except Japanese.
If that were the case, it wouldn't have made Hideki Tojo obsessed with Germany, because there was still a distinct individual to worship. Didn't there be such a person in Germany at that time? Nature is.
Remember the shooting of Hideki Tojo at the beginning of the article? The gun that was used to end his life was the Walter automatic pistol that Hitler, the leader of the German Nazi Party, personally gave him. As the "integrator" of fascism, the leader of Nazism, and Hideki Tojo, who also preached militarism, it was naturally reasonable for Hitler to be his idol.
Falling in love with a country, not to mention that the country also has a leader who is "worth emulating", Hideki Tojo cannot avoid Germany in his life.
Secondly, he was a samurai who "did not talk about martial arts"
The so-called "father must have his son", Tojo Hideki's father Tojo Hideki was a samurai of the Edo period in Japan, and later became a lieutenant general in the army. In order to cultivate his son's bushido spirit, Tojo Hideo invited Hibino, the first samurai in Japan at that time, to teach the famous "Excalibur Flow Sword Dance" one-on-one.
When Hideki Tojo was studying at the Japanese Army University, he often performed the "Divine Sword Flow Sword Dance" that he was proud of in front of his classmates, and the praise of his classmates also plunged him into blindness and madness, and his dedication to the spirit of Bushido was unprecedentedly high.
In fact, in the final analysis, the cultivation of the bushido spirit is a brainwashing process, allowing followers to enter a state similar to madness, and unconditional loyalty and obedience are the highest meanings of the bushido spirit.
Just like the pyramid scheme, Hideki Tojo, who was cultivated by the spirit of Bushido since childhood, became the backbone of the best Bushido propaganda business when he grew up, whether he graduated from college or went to work after going to work, he tirelessly promoted the spirit of Bushido on various occasions, incited allergic emotions, and attracted a large number of "like-minded" young Japanese officers and fighters.
At the same time, Hideki Tojo also won the attention and favor of Emperor Hirohito with the help of his loyal Bushido image, and won a decisive promotion in the "226" incident.
Although Hideki Tojo preached the spirit of Bushido for many years, this was only a means for him to develop the "offline line", and he himself did not comply with it.
Unlike other Japanese officers who sent their descendants to the front and decided to commit suicide after defeat, Hideki Tojo never sent a single son to the battlefield, and when it was Japan's surrender, when it was his turn to be loyal to the emperor, he did not choose the traditional samurai method of cutting his own stomach and committing suicide.
Most ironically, a few days before Hideki Tojo committed suicide, he asked his personal doctor to make a special circle of the heart on his chest to facilitate the shooting of the heart. In the end, I don't know whether it is because he is not convenient to aim as a left-hander, or because he can't hold his trembling hands because of fear, in short, in the case of everything is ready and only one shot is owed, he still shoots.
This samurai, who greatly admired the spirit of Bushido, did not dare to end his sinful life with the traditional samurai caesarean method, adding a new shame. The American "Christian Science Monitor" even commented on this suicide attempt as "just the last shame of the guy who has lost his credibility and been abandoned".
Finally, he was a high-ranking Japanese official on paper
In 1935, Hideki Tojo first served as the commander of the gendarmerie of the Kwantung Army through the recommendation of his classmates, and used this as a springboard to launch an attack on the Japanese power center. In 1941, the then Japanese prime minister announced his resignation, the cabinet also announced the dissolution, Japan on the brink of all-out war urgently needed a person who dared to fight and rush to take over, stabilize the Japanese military, and at the same time stabilize the hearts of the two allies.
As a result, Emperor Hirohito took a fancy to Hideki Tojo, who was infinitely loyal to him, promoted him to general, and appointed him prime minister and reorganized the cabinet. This was originally a cabinet that served the Second World War, and in times of turmoil, it was most important to control power.
In order to consolidate his position, under the emperor's arrangement, Hideki Tojo was also the minister of land and the minister of the interior, and later concurrently served as the minister of education, commerce and industry, and the military supply, and so on, and gathered all kinds of great powers, and Japan completely handed over the fate of the country to this man.
Unfortunately, they are not human. Hideki Tojo had hardly participated in any actual combat before joining the Kwantung Army. Like Zhao Kuo, the Chinese general of the Zhao State who "talked on paper", Hideki Tojo's military theory and eloquence were first-rate.
The impression of hideki Tojo by the large and small officials in the Japanese Army is that he is a nerd, holding a military theory book every day, but he is a good hand when he fools the soldiers, and after each speech, he can always bring the emotions of the officers and men to a climax.
Hideki Tojo had not participated in actual combat, so naturally he did not have the fear of defeat and was extremely aggressive in the command of the war. After he fully controlled the military and political power of Japan, he was ready to show his fists and feet, not only fighting against the Soviet Union and China at the same time, but also planning to declare war on the European and American powers.
At the end of 1941, Hideki Tojo quickly formulated the "Pearl Harbor Sneak Attack" plan, which drew the United States into the war and also pulled Japan into the track of defeat. Emperor Hirohito and his former prime minister could not have imagined something that Hideki Tojo did at once.
Lu Qi said
After Hideki Tojo was hanged, the body was dragged to a crematorium in Yokohama City and later dragged by the U.S. Air Force over the Pacific Ocean, 30 nautical miles east of Yokohama, where the ashes were scattered on a large scale.
There is an old Chinese saying: "Jumping into the Yellow River cannot be washed away", and the crimes committed by Hideki Tojo against the people of Asia, especially the people of Chinese, cannot be washed clean even if they jump into the Pacific Ocean.