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L’ombre du Vésuve, la rumeur de la ville, un ballon qui roule dans une rue sale... Maradona est toujours napolitain

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

The last Japanese soldier to formally surrender after the country's defeat in WWII was Hiroo Onoda...

Lieutenant Onoda finally handed over his sword on March 9th 1974. He had held out in the Philippine jungle for 29 years. In interviews and writings after his return to Japan, Lt Onoda said he had been unable to accept that Japan had capitulated.

To many outsiders, Onoda looked like a fanatic. But in imperial Japan his actions were perfectly logical. Onoda had sworn never to surrender, to die for the emperor. He believed the rest of his countrymen, and women, would do the same.

Of course they hadn't. On 15 August 1945, Japan's supreme divine being, Emperor Hirohito, did something no emperor had done before: he went on the radio. Atom bombs had destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On the day the second bomb was dropped, Joseph Stalin declared war on Japan. Soviet forces were already sweeping across Manchuria. Within weeks they would be landing on the northern island of Hokkaido. Hirohito accepted that surrender to the Americans was his best choice.

Even so, the emperor's surrender speech nearly didn't happen. On the morning of 15 August, a group of young officers led their troops in to the imperial palace grounds. They were trying to seize the recording of that speech. They believed the war was far from lost. Japan's home islands had yet to be invaded. Its vast army in China was still largely undefeated.

The officers were little concerned by mass civilian casualties inflicted by the US bombing of Japan's cities. Instead they were focused on one thing: the survival of the imperial system. Japan must not sue for peace until the emperor was secured.

The young officers failed to stop the broadcast. But they got their wish - after the surrender the US decided Hirohito would not be tried as a war criminal after all. Instead he would stay on the throne, effectively an American puppet. It was perhaps a shrewd move by Douglas MacArthur, the US general who ruled over Japan until 1949. MacArthur used the emperor to push his own agenda - to transform conservative Japan in to a modern democracy with an American-style constitution.

The victorious allies put 28 members of Japan's wartime leadership on trial. Seven, including Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, were hanged. But others were never charged. Among them Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, the emperor's uncle, and the man who led Japanese troops in the infamous rape of the Chinese capital, Nanjing.

Sparing them was seen by MacArthur as a necessary evil. But his decision has allowed, even encouraged, Japan to avoid a deep reckoning with its past.

Another man who escaped trial was Nobusuke Kishi. Kishi had played a leading role in the occupation of Manchuria and was a close ally of war leader Hideki Tojo. Americans decided not to charge him. Instead in 1948 Kishi was released. He was banned from politics while the American occupation lasted. But in 1955, Kishi engineered the formation of a new political force - the Liberal Democratic Party. Soon he would be its leader and Japan's prime minister. His rehabilitation was complete, and the party he helped create has ruled over Japan for most of the proceeding 65 years.

Nobusuke Kishi's daughter married the son of another powerful political dynasty - a man named Shintaro Abe. He would go on to become Japan's foreign minister, and to father a son of his own, named Shinzo.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is far from unique in his family history. Japan's political dynasties have proved remarkably resilient.

Shinzo Abe was reputedly close to his grandfather. The old man had a profound influence on young Shinzo's political views. Like many of his allies on the right, Nobusuke Kishi thought the war-crimes trials he narrowly escaped were victor's justice. His life-long goal remained the scrapping of the post war pacifist constitution.

© BBC

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[Dom boma @Goddessbomaa]

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[Napoletano @Galioca]

@ndetavernost Vous avez été un dirigeant qui a défendu les intérêts de notre club. La vente a été souhaitée par le directoire d’M6 mais hélas vous avez vendu à des vautours. Aujourd’hui le club est KO. Vous vous seriez honoré de revenir réécrire pas une fin cette fois mais un nouveau chapitre.

[Dom boma @Goddessbomaa]

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[Benjamin Hessel @BenjaminHessel]

Seule la colère m’anime ce soir.

Colère envers tous ceux qui, depuis le premier jour de l’ère Lopez, n’ont pas eu le courage de se démener pour le faire partir.
Colère envers tous ceux qui ont cautionné, accompagné, participé.
Colère envers ceux qui ont préféré préserver leur place, leurs intérêts ou leur propre destin plutôt que celui des Girondins.

Faire aujourd’hui les surpris, les traumatisés, les effondrés est tout simplement honteux.

Ce qui arrive aux Girondins n’est ni une surprise ni un accident. C’est l’aboutissement de plusieurs années de renoncements, de complaisance et de lâcheté.

Et certains portent une responsabilité immense dans ce désastre.

[Napoletano @Galioca]

@BastiearthurH @DonFcgb Je pense sincèrement que s’il avait fait de même à l’OM, son intégrité physique aurait été mise à mal.

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[Mel Gibson @MelGibson_1th]

The first images of the moon, taken by the current Artemis II mission. Magnificent and fascinating."

God is wonderful. 😊🙏✝️

[Dom boma @Goddessbomaa]

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🚨 PEP GUARDIOLA: “HANSI FLICK’S BARÇA IS PURE ENTERTAINMENT.”

"Flick’s Barça, if they’re playing and I can watch them, I sit down and watch because you enjoy it. We overthink things and make up stories, but ultimately, when you go to cinema or to a good restaurant, what you want is to enjoy yourself. And tell me one time when you don’t enjoy watching Barca"

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Britain fooled Hitler into moving his defenses using a dead homeless man dressed as a fake officer...

In 1943, British intelligence carried out Operation Mincemeat, a deception designed to convince Nazi Germany that the Allies planned to invade Greece and Sardinia rather than Sicily. Intelligence officers obtained the body of Glyndwr Michael, a 34 year old Welshman who had died in London after ingesting rat poison.

They created an entirely fictional identity for him: Major William Martin of the Royal Marines. The body was dressed in a military uniform and equipped with identification, receipts, personal letters, keys, theater tickets, and even a photograph of a fictitious girlfriend. A briefcase chained to his wrist contained supposedly secret correspondence suggesting that Greece was the Allies' primary invasion target.

The body was released from a British submarine off the Spanish coast, where officials recovered it. Copies of the documents eventually reached German intelligence. Adolf Hitler accepted the deception and reinforced Greece, Sardinia, and the Balkans.

When Allied forces invaded Sicily on July 10, 1943, German commanders had been encouraged to expect the main attack elsewhere. Sicily fell after 38 days, helping open the Mediterranean and contributing to the collapse of Benito Mussolini's government.

Glyndwr Michael's grave in Huelva, Spain, originally identified him only as "Major William Martin." In 1998, his real name was added to the headstone with the inscription, "Glyndwr Michael served as Major William Martin, RM." Operation Mincemeat, a well written narrative non-fiction book by Ben MacIntyre is worth a read to learn more about this entire campaign.

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[Claude Pèze @ClaudePeze_]

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[Dom boma @Goddessbomaa]

Where are my good boys ?

[Cinou 🆒️ 🆓️ 💙💛 🖤🧡💔 @Cinou57734599]

@McRogueD Un reportage à ce sujet via Arte.
L'identification est suffisamment crédible que pour avoir effacé le nom de cet homme du monument aux morts de sa ville.

https://t.co/gNuhPblVGD

[Xeno🇸🇳 @XenoSama__]

La gifle temporelle que la petite se prend à chaque fois

[Napoletano @Galioca]

@EspoirsduFoot C’est un fils de pute. Le mot est fort mais avoir dézingué Costil et Koscielny sur commande en arguant des histoires de racisme et d’alcoolisme, franchement…. T’es une sous merde @FlorianBrunet78