The Final Storm
“USHIJIMA BENEATH SHURI CASTLE, HEADQUARTERS, THIRTY-SECOND ARMYMAY 22, 1945 He had received word of the German surrender with the same stoic resignation he had felt for weeks now. Though others around him seemed injured by the news, as though a good friend had been lost, Ushijima understood that the alliance with Germany had been only one more enormous miscalculation. It was a familiar song, years of soothing reassurances from Japan’s Imperial High Command that all was well, that Japan’s destin...y was being fulfilled. The decisions to expand Japan’s inevitable empire by striking hard into China, by striking hard at the British and the Americans, were made by men in grand offices in Tokyo, who drew lines on maps without ever facing the pure devastating reality of what their decisions had done to their glorious army, their invincible navy. The alliance with Hitler had been one more of those wise decisions, aligning Japanese interests with Germany’s, both nations seeking to spread their superior races over a vast empire that would eventually divide the world into two mighty spheres of influence.MoreLess
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