Word: executioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In 1939 the Government needed a heavyhanded, blue-blooded officer to rope in some of its maverick commanders in China. It chose Prince Higashi-Kuni. He dressed down his notorious relative, Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, who stood by at the rape of Nanking and subsequently at the "Death March" from Bataan...
¶ Crimes against humanity; i.e., murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, or persecution on political, racial or religious grounds in the execution of or in connection with any crime within the jurisdiction of the tribunal.
An underground Resistance leader, Charles Louis Barres, ascribed his escape from execution to Pátain's intervention. Blind septuagenarian General Emile Delannurien praised Marshal Pátain for protecting France in her dark hours.
Orders from Tokyo (Philippine Commonwealth-OSS-Warner) were found on Japanese soldiers who died in Manila's walled city. They were detailed instructions from Imperial Headquarters for "the systematic massacre" of the city's civilians, children and women as well as men. This short color film, the work...
The witness continued: he was not responsible for the murders of French patriots by Vichyminister Joseph Darnand's notorious "Blackbird" militia. He had denounced no one. In fact, he personally had saved ex-Premier Reynaud and Léon Blum from Gestapo execution. The prosecution confronted Laval with a...