Tojo with Hitler
H, David. “The Wax Museum at Fisherman's Wharf: Photos”. Yelp. n.p. April 24, 2013. Web. 9 May 2013.
Tojo and Hitler were often pictured together such as in this photo taken in Madam Tussaud’s Wax Museum. Hitler was a huge example to Tojo and most of japan. The mistreatment of Jews and prisoners in Nazi Germany may have led Japan to believe that it was okay to mistreat prisoners of war (“Militarism and WWII”). Also, there was a sort of racial separation on the Bataan death march. The Japanese would make American soldiers march on one side of the road, and the Americans on the other (“Capture and March”). The Japanese also thought that you should kill yourself instead of surrendering. It was considered the “ultimate disgrace” to surrender to the enemy (Turnpike 44). The Japanese were going through some pretty rough times in WWII, so they found things to take this anger out on. Actually it wasn’t Tojo who organized the Bataan Death March. He had almost nothing to do with it. It was mostly the Japanese soldiers and Lieutenant General Homua Masahary who was held responsible for the Death March, then executed by a firing squad on April 3, 1946 (“Bataan Death March”).