Declassified documents show Tokyo planned covert killings of locals and foreigners in Manchuria in the event of war with the USSR
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has released declassified documents revealing a secret Japanese plan for mass executions in occupied Manchuria during World War II.
Despite having a neutrality pact with Moscow, Japan – a wartime ally of Nazi Germany – drafted its own strategy to invade the USSR. In 1941, the General Staff of the Imperial Japanese Army approved the ‘Kantokuen,’ or ‘Special Maneuvers of the Kwantung Army’ plan, which envisioned defeating Soviet forces in the Far East and Siberia.
The operation…
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