preface
On September 18, 1931, the Japanese army entered the Shenyang area of China, because Shenyang's inaction and non-resistance allowed China to quickly gain a foothold in Shenyang without any time to prepare.
And began to plan their so-called "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity", hoping to turn the land of China into their "royal paradise".
But even so, China did not give up, and with the formation of a "anti-Japanese army", finally with the cooperation of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, after 14 years of resistance war, the Japanese invaders were finally expelled from the yellow soil on the mainland.
As the Japanese army retreated, the Chinese people finally stood up from the oppression, and 40,000 compatriots and more than 35 million heroic spirits who died in the war shouted in unison, as if they wanted to shout a hole in the sky above their heads.
However, this matter is not over, waiting for Japan will be a trial from the International Court of Justice, the Japanese army in World War II and the war of aggression against China, accumulated no less than 50 crimes, of which the 40th Japanese Prime Minister Tojo Hideki almost won the "Grand Slam", a full 50 major crimes, only one of which "missed" with him.
However, Hideki Tojo's actions before he was hanged were very different from the Japanese army's performance on the battlefield, and for a while, this "razor general" became the laughing stock of the Japanese army and the people of the world.
What did Hideki Tojo do before he died that made the Japanese scorn him? What did Hideki Tojo say in court that made foreigners who are the presiding judge rarely angry?
"Generously dying" Japanese soldiers, "stubbornly stealing life" is the prime minister
After Japan's surrender in 1945, Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo personally issued a "death order" requiring Japanese soldiers not to become prisoners, and in order to maintain the spirit of Bushido in Japan, all soldiers to be captured must kill themselves.
As soon as this order came out, the already worried Japanese soldiers, like fried domestic cats, did not care about their superiors and subordinates, and shouted at Hideki Tojo's actions, and Hideki Tojo had to answer countless phone calls every day.
The content of the phone call was all a mockery of Hideki Tojo, saying that he wanted Hideki Tojo to do a good job of leadership, lead by example, and take the lead to death. As the prime minister of Japan, Hideki Tojo is busy with affairs, and he does not dare to miss a call.
Afraid of missing important news, Hideki Tojo endured the anger of every soldier. Hideki Tojo was very angry, but there were too many voices of helpless resistance, and the law did not blame the public, and could only stop it.
I don't know if it was the role of the soldiers' psychological suggestion, Tojo Hideki really found the doctor to find the position of the heart for him, drew a circle, and every day he had to draw his finger along the position of the circle to form a muscle memory, in case he was captured and committed suicide, he could not be shot to death.
But Hideki Tojo, who went to the right time and place, even if he repeated this action every day, but when the US military "visited", Hideki Tojo pointed a gun at his chest, trembling like a sieve, pulled the trigger, but the bullet still missed the heart and was rescued.
When Hideki Tojo opened his eyes and saw the gray ceiling of the hospital, his heart was like ashes, and the nurses who changed his dressing, the American troops who insisted on standing next to the hospital bed, and the ordinary people outside all silently laughed at Hideki Tojo's behavior of wanting to die.
However, hearing that Hideki Tojo's ears were deafening, he was embarrassed and angry to defend himself, saying that his hands trembled when he shot that he deviated from his position, and as soon as this sentence came out, he laughed loudly, which further confirmed Hideki Tojo's weak behavior.
Even after recovering, transferred to prison, the captured Japanese soldiers laughed mockingly at him and did not talk to him, Tojo Hideki was sad and indignant, but helplessly, he still wanted to live, so in prison, he wrote nearly 200,000 words of defense.
Go to a military court
In 1946, when Hideki Tojo and 28 Class-A war criminals went to court together, he remained silent in the face of the judge's list of 55 major crimes in Japan, but when Tojo Hideki heard that 54 of them were linked to him, he flatly denied it.
However, such a feeble resistance did not have much effect other than arousing the presiding judge's anger and cursing, and when faced with the other party's ability to list a large amount of evidence for each crime, Tojo Hideki was speechless, and he could not even turn the first page of the 200,000-word defense written in order to survive.
Hideki Tojo clenched his teeth and looked blank, even if the judgment had not yet fallen on him, he knew that his actions were bound to be alive, and all he did not know was his "way of dying".
Take paper and "commit suicide"
In the end, the court decided to hang Hideki Tojo, and after withdrawing from the court, Hideki Tojo fidgeted in prison, pacing back and forth, and finally gritted his teeth and decided to "commit suicide" again.
He secretly stole the toilet tissue and rubbed the paper towel into a rope, probably thinking that his "death" was a little more "decent" than "dying" in public, but when he stuck his head into the circle of the tissue hoop.
Discovered by the two US military jailers guarding the prison, they stepped forward and pulled off the paper rope, and the two jailers were obviously stunned, apparently having just discovered that the "quality" of the rope was not very good, and then pointed at Hideki Tojo's nose and laughed.
They turned and walked out of the prison and told this to their colleagues, and just like that, Tojo Hideki made another trouble before dying, which made people endure.
Final judgment
Hideki Tojo lay in bed that night and couldn't sleep, and the next morning, Hideki Tojo was tied up by five flowers, and under the leadership of the American army, he walked step by step to the execution table.
Hideki Tojo tried to hold on to his "dignity" as much as possible, but the more he did, the more his legs did not listen to the call, and when he signed the execution document, even his name seemed to tremble and write crookedly.
After walking up to the execution table, he put on a black mask, and two American soldiers carried him behind him, because Hideki Tojo's legs were no longer able to stand at this time, and then put on a rope and stood on the platform waiting for the fall.
With an order, the floor under Hideki Tojo's feet opened, Hideki Tojo fell down instantly, his legs kept struggling, and time passed minute by minute, Hideki Tojo struggled for twelve minutes before dying.
When the executioner lifted Hideki Tojo's mask, he found that his distorted face was covered with tears, and finally Hideki Tojo ended his criminal life in extreme pain.