Hideki Tojo used be a general of the Japanse Army and as prime minister, led the country into war.
Leading the country into the war was a major mistake and consequently betrayed the Emperor and the people of Japan.
He was born in 1884 in Tokyo. His family was from Iwate where the load was against the Emperor's Meiji reartoration at the end. Those people experienced discrimination.
He garaduated the Imperial Army Academy (Japanese West Point).
He was ranked 42nd among 50 graduates.
He stayed at Swiss for a while as a military attache. That was before German's raise.
Referring to Hitler, Tojo was quoted as saying "Hitler was just a soldier, I used be a general. Do not treat me the same as him"
Tojo seemed that he did not understand what Hitler was doing completely.
The Nazis wanted to be Japanese to be very harsh against the Jews who escaped from Eastern Europe and Russia to Manchuria. As Commander of the Japanese Manchuria Froces "Kanto-gun" from 1937 to 1941, Tojo's policy towards the Jews was generous despite complaints from the Nazis.
He allows the Jews to cross the border from USSR to Manchuria and permited them to hold the political meetings about the conditions' of Jewish people living in Europe. (Rabi Marvin Tokeyer worte about the fact.)
After the war, however, Tojo was executied in 1948 as a war criminal.
His last words to Americans were "Let the Japanese to keep trusting Americans as the same as when they were defeated,
and be careful against Communist, in next several decades it would be a problem for Japanese(American).
Reading what has been written about Hideki Tojo, people would have some confusion. But everybody had two faces.
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