Cybach wrote:Scarsaw wrote:Cybach wrote:You misinterpret the action. By committing ritual suicide he is admitting responsibility for failure, it's consequences and living up to his actions. He forfeits his own life as repentance to his men. This is the reason why so many Japanese and German officers committed suicide in the waning days of the war. Most felt honor bound.
He also killed himself to avoid being a propaganda piece to the Russians, especially after he saw how they used Mussolini.
Or are you claiming he would have gotten a fair trial? The Nuremberg Trials for all intents and purposes were a legal farce and a joke that put a black mark on the judicial branch. Maybe a moral victory, but certainly not justice in any true sense of the word.
that is a true, a trial where both the judges and the defense lawyers come from the conquering country is far from fair.
Stalin I believe said something along the lines of just shooting them would be equally as fair and far more efficient.
Judges should have came form countries not apart of the confrontation.