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After WWII was over, Tokyo decided to prosecute wartime elites, but never really went through with it In Tokyo or any other big city in Ja

After WWII was over, Tokyo decided to prosecute wartime elites, but never really went through with it In Tokyo or any other big city in Ja

The Battle of 1941 "Our greatest peril now seems to be an invasion of Eire for it would place the Germans between this Island and the United States"—Reed May 1 1941 DOUGLAS REED The Battle of 1941 "Our greatest peril now seems to be an invasion of Eire for it would place the Germans between this Island and the United States"—Reed DOUGLAS REED LONDON--(By airmail and cable) When I began to write these monthly articles for Maclean's the winter of 1940 was at the door and, still scarcely daring to believe my mind’s eyes, 1 was able to look back on t...

Prime Minister Winston Churchill labeled Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, as such. Here's What You Need to Know: King Abdullah of Transjordan called his political foe Haj Amin "a devil straight from hell." Like all Palestinians and most Arabs, Haj Amin al-Hussaini not only looked forward to an Axis Pact victory in World War II but also saw it as a means of defeating what he believed was a joint British-Jewish conspiracy to foist an Israelite homeland on the Middle East that would be to the detriment of his own people. An Arab officer in the Turkish Ottoman Army in World Wa...

Monsignor Josef Tiso led Slovakia into an alliance with Hitler and the Nazis. Here's What You Need to Know: Hitler’s war and the alliance with Nazi Germany eventually became unpopular in Slovakia. According to the 1960 memoirs of Henriette Hoffmann von Schirach, Adolf Hitler called Father Josef Tiso, a monsignor in the Roman Catholic Church and premier of Fascist Slovakia, “The little parson.” CBS radio broadcaster William L. Shirer described Tiso as being “almost as broad as he was tall” in his book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Dr. Paul Schmidt of the German Foreign Offi...