What the Nazis said to Gen. Eisenhower upon surrendering 71 years ago this month

Awesome Witness to History thank you for sharing that Capt. Goodman. My other grandfather, Seaman Jess Lagos (the one that survived WWII, vs my mother's father who was KIA US Army Infantry and is still buried in the US Cemetery In Manila the Philippines, after getting killed repulsing a dawn Jap Banzai Attack on March 14th, 1945) after surviving the Pacific War on three navy warships, a Tin Can Destroyer, a Light Cruiser, and ending the War in the Battle for Okinawa on the USS Guam, Heavy cruiser, and the numerous Kamikaze Attacks the fleet suffered during the Okinawa Campaign, he saw with his own eyes the Atomic Explosion of either the Hiroshima or the Nagasaki explosion while steaming off Japan in August of 1945, he never figured out which one, but until he died in 1999, that man was grateful until the day he died for the awful decision by President Truman to use the atomic bombs against Japan to hasten their surrender.

So when Obama goes to Hiroshima to pay his respects, I hope he stops off in Manila the Philippines and pays his respects to the thousands of US Soldiers and other service-members who were killed fighting the Jap War Machine in McArthur's return to the Philippines, thousands of whom are still interred in the US Cemetery along with my mother's father, or visits the Filipino Memorials to their hundreds of thousands of civilians whom the Japs killed, or he could pay his respects to the men who were killed in the Bataan Death March, by the Japs barbarity.

Actually it was not too difficult a decision for Truman to nuke the Japs given their fanaticism and unwillingness to surrender and the FACT that the US Public in August of 1945 really was "War Weary" after having suffered 400,000 plus Americans KIA in the European and Pacific Wars and no one wanted this war to go into 1946 AND an estimated one million US and allied casualties for the forced invasion of the Japanese Mainland Islands.

Japan was the ISIS of its day, a fanatical, suicidal, "fight to the death" for their "God Emperor" who's civilians would rather jump off of cliffs holding their babies, than surrender to US Marines in the Battle for Okinawa. They were preparing their suicidal civilian (women and children too), population to fight to the death armed with nothing but a sharpened bamboo stick. "Just hurt or kill one American before you die." THAT was ISIS before their was an ISIS, back in August of 1945.

That is what we were staring in the face before Truman dropped his two atomic Bombs on the Japs. They had no way of knowing how many more of these new terror weapons Truman had, but it was clear by then to all but the most insane Japs , that Truman was willing to drop these horror weapons on every Jap city, before he would authorize the one million US casualty invasion of the Jap homeland Islands, and that continued resistance would mean everyone of their major cities would end up looking like Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

That is how WWII ended with the surrender of the Japanese and the end of the Jap War Machine. Today, just like their are many people who try to deny the Holocaust and to minimize Germany's awful guilt and its millions of crimes against Humanity and the Genocidal Murder that has never before been committed on an Industrial scale the way the Germans and the Nazis perfected Murder, the same type of weak sauce so called "historians" are trying to deceive Americans into believing that the use of the two Atomic Bombs was "unnecessary" and the Japs were trying to surrender before we nuked them. BULLSHIT! Even after the Emperor went on the radio and the Japanese people heard his voice broadcast for the first time asking them to stand down and accept the unacceptable surrender to the allies, a small group of fanatical Japanese Military Officers attempted to storm the Imperial palace and kidnap or force the emperor to rescind his order to surrender. Those were the kind of fanatic ISIS types we had been fighting against since Pearl Harbor.

I was amused when a heard some Japanese Surviving Kamikaze pilots (not all of them got their death wish before the war ended) protest the comparisons that were made in early 2004/2005 or so when the Iraqi Sunni suicidal car/truck and vest wearing Jihadis started blowing themselves up regularly as a tactic to murder US troops or their despised Shia countrymen. These old and unrepentant War Japs were offended that we compared the Jihadis to the Kamikazes. In their mind they were much more honorable than these new kamikazes, such as the Sunni Jihadis and the ISIS that followed them???? WTF???

I'm obv very familiar with the effort to create a revisionist viewmpf what happened with Hiroshima and Nagasaki of course . I'm also very familiar with the stories of the Japanese holdouts who refused to surrender inmsome cases for decades after ww2 ended. I know about the yasakuni shrinemwhere the class a war criminals in Japan are buried, the whole comfort women story of Korean women abused in ww2, the rape of Nanking in China, the whole unit 731 story mentioned in the film about pu to the last Chinese Manchukuo puppet emperor, and about stories of Japanese cannibalism during ww2, with one of those supposed cannibals, I'd read, I think in Singapore, having also possibly, according to something I'd read online awhile back though I can't find it for awhile now, having been an advisor to the north Vietnamese during the Vietnam war, which, quite candidly, I couldn't tell whether to believe or not, supposedly, he knew how to fight Western armies , though I don't know or recall if helped the Viet minh against the French likewise at down bien phu when the French lost there in the famous massacre in the late 50s losing French Indochina. I know the story of the Japanese officers who tried to circumvent hirohito surrendering, and how the recording of his voice has been hidden, I'd read, to protect it, for later broadcast, I think, or something like that. The unrepentant Japanese fascists were typified by "The Bird" the one who tortured Capt Louis zamperini in the Unbroken film, there's also the film The Railway Man with Nicole Kidman a true story if you haven't seen it about a survivor of the river kwai Railway torture camps for British and Australian POWs. Readmgive us this day bynsidney Stewart, and the book return from the river kwai I can't recall the authors now, one the principal!author, his first name was clay, I think. I'd be eager for your thoughts hope was of interest , many thanks .

Sorry for misspellings the film was the last emperor about isohiro pu yi of China many thanks .