Why Wasn't There an Italian "Nuremberg / Tokyo War Crimes" Trial After WWII?

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  @TodayIFoundOut · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

  Swept Under the Rug: The Truth About the &quot;Japanese Holocaust&quot; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18Xe9HqW8Q4">https://youtu.be/18Xe9HqW8Q4?si=dYRoaM8R0xJVVNaz</a><br><br>This video brought to you in part by our Patrons over on Patreon. If you’d like to support our efforts here directly, and our continued efforts to improve our videos, as well as do more ultra in-depth long form videos that built in ads and even sponsors don’t always cover fully, check out our Patreon page and perks here: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/TodayIFoundOut">https://www.patreon.com/TodayIFoundOut</a> And as ever, thanks for watching!

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  @jesseberg3271 · 2 years ago

  The idea of the Italians simply publishing a list of public enemies who could be killed with impunity and without trial is darkly ironic, because it has happened before. &nbsp;When Julius Caesar was a young man, the Dictator Sulla published such a list, which is usually referred to as &quot;the proscriptions&quot;. &nbsp;Caesar, as Dictator himself later in life, refused to proscribe his enemies, and paid the price for his mercy. &nbsp;Following Caesar&apos;s assassination, his heirs thought better of the idea, and issued proscriptions of their own.

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  @onenote6619 · 2 years ago

  Short answer: The Allies wanted Japan as a bastion against Communism in the east, and a unified Europe in the west.

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  @GrievousReborn · 2 years ago (edited)

  Side note the Soviet Union had trials for 12 Japanese war criminals the Khabarovsk war crimes trials. They also let them off with light sentences ranging from 2 to 25 years which all were eventually released early 11 in 1956 and 1 in 1951 in exchange for the Unit 731 data.

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  @spinnetti · 2 years ago (edited)

  I think its unconscionable that so many were not held accountable for the horrors they inflicted, particularly in Asia.

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  @AlexTenThousand · 2 years ago

  There&apos;s to note - the racial laws in Italy were the proverbial straw break the camel&apos;s back for Enrico Fermi, the man who discovered induced nuclear fission and the father of the atomic age, as he had married a Jewish woman and had Jewish children (due to the matrilineal nature of Judaism), pushing him to both defy the Fascist regime which had constantly defunded his research and threatened his family first by showing up to collect his Nobel prize in a suit rather than a Fascist military uniform (note, the Fascist regime despised the bourgoisie officially), and moving to the United States, where he designed and led the construction of the world&apos;s first nuclear reactor, and was one of the directors of Project Manhattan, arguably contributing to it more than anyone else.

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  @markzuckergecko621 · 2 years ago

  One big bad villain is easier for people to understand, and more importantly, easier to process. The alternative is realizing there was a little bit of villain in everyone involved.

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  @williammurray1341 · 2 years ago

  Shame that fear of demonitization prevents presentation of the truth. Lived in northern Japan in the early 70s. Open secret that the harbor breakwater was a Korean mass grave.

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  @ArinKambitsis · 2 years ago

  My grandmother lived under both Italian and German occupations of her island in Greece. She always maintained that the Germans were far more brutal and cruel than the Italians were. The Italian soldiers, mostly, didn’t even want to be there.

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  @jesse7644 · 2 years ago

  Japan did some messed up shit

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  @phillipescott9764 · 2 years ago

  Anyone interested in the Italian post-war cultural landscape should seek out the Don Camillo stories by Giovanni Guareschi. They run from about 1950 to about 1979, and document (humorously) the rivalry between former fascists and communists, with subtle interference by the parish priest.

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  @barryhamm3414 · 2 years ago (edited)

  At the International Tribunal for the Far East which convened on 26 April 1946 was convened with 28 defendants. Of these 2 died of natural causes during the trial, 1 was found to be mentally unfit, 7 were found guilty and subsequently executed, 16 were found guilty and sentenced to life in prison but subsequently released on various date between 1952 and 1958. <br><br>There were further trials throughout &nbsp;territories formally occupied be Japan with some 984 executions and numerous prison sentences.

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