Ōshima Hiroshi (General)

Ōshima Hiroshi

Ōshima (1st row from left, fourth from left) along with the other defendants during the Tokyo trials

Ōshima Hiroshi ( Japanese 大 島 浩 ; born April 19, 1886 in Gifu Prefecture ; † June 6, 1975 in Tokyo ) was General of the Imperial Japanese Army and Japanese Ambassador to Germany during World War II . By listening to his reports, the Allies were able to get an accurate picture of Hitler's plans in Europe.

Life

Ōshima Hiroshi was born in 1886 to a well-known Japanese family from Gifu Prefecture. His father Ōshima Ken'ichi was Minister of the Army from 1916 to 1918 . In 1906 Ōshima graduated from the Military Academy of the Imperial Japanese Army and in 1915 the Japanese Army College . Between 1923 and 1924 he was a military attaché in Budapest and Vienna . In 1934 he became a military attaché in Berlin with the rank of colonel . Ōshima befriended Joachim von Ribbentrop , Hitler's advisor at the time for foreign affairs and later Reich Minister for Foreign Affairs .

In October 1938, Ōshima became the Japanese ambassador in Berlin. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941), Ōshima was awarded the Order of Merit of the German Eagle in Gold by Hitler .

Ōshima was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Tokyo trials and released in 1955.

Web links

Commons : Hiroshi Ōshima  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Newspaper article about Ōshima Hiroshi in the press kit of the 20th century of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} The trial of the main war criminals before the International Court of Justice in Nuremberg. Nuremberg 1947, Vol. 3, pp. 412–448, on zeno.org [1]

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Ōshima is the family name, Hiroshi the first name.